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New Heavily Desired High Resolution Land Cover Data for the U.S.聽
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced the launch of the long desired high-resolution coastal land cover data. This highly anticipated data are available for most coastal areas of the U.S., including Alaska and the U.S. territories.
麻豆传媒 employee owners contributed to the release of this data set by participating in production activities and providing quality assurance/quality control checks. In addition, the team has been presenting workflow processes and outputs, on-the-ground applications, and associated benefits of the data at conferences and to partners.
As part of this effort, 麻豆传媒 staff developed ESRI ArcGIS image services and a story map to facilitate distribution and understanding of the data. Following the NOAA press release, the land cover project team manager received an influx of questions expressing confusion regarding the data. 麻豆传媒 staff were tasked with rapidly developing to better explain the points of confusion and direct users to the data download site. Staff completed this task within three business days of being assigned.
Previously, coastal land cover data was widely available at a 30-meter resolution. This new data is a 1-meter resolution product, which communities can use to improve sea level rise projections, protect communities from flooding, inform wetland restoration projects, and more. This is an especially important data set for Alaska, which has previously not had widespread land cover data available. Due to the costly nature of this high-resolution data, it was previously unobtainable for communities that couldn鈥檛 provide funding. Thanks to funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, NOAA was able to provide this data at a much larger scale.
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