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Cropland Data Layer: Wisconsin, 2015
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Content Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Cropland Data Layer: Wisconsin, 2015
- Originator
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Publisher
- USDA-NASS
- Place of Publication
- Washington , District of Columbia , US
- Publication Date
- 2015-12-31
- Edition
- 2015
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide
- Other Citation Details
- 30m resolution
- Abstract
- The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) releases the annual Cropland Data Layer (CDL) via the NASS CropScape geospatial portal. The CDL product depicts agricultural land cover over the Continental United States at 30 meters resolution. CropScape includes historical data dating back to 1997 for some locales. The CDL is an annual raster, geo-referenced, crop-specific land cover data layer produced using satellite imagery and extensive agricultural ground truth collected during the current growing season. The strength and emphasis of CropScape and the CDL is agricultural land cover. Please note that no farmer reported data are derivable from CropScape or the Cropland Data Layer.Please reference CropScape (https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/) or the official CDL website (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php) for a list of the available states and years of data and the individual metadata files that contain the technical details. NASS developed both the CropScape and VegScape web services in cooperation with the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
- Purpose
- CropScape is the online distribution website for the USDA, NASS Cropland Data Layer. The purpose of the Cropland Data Layer Program is to use satellite imagery to (1) provide acreage estimates to the Agricultural Statistics Board for the state's major commodities and (2) produce digital, crop-specific, categorized geo-referenced output products.
- Supplemental Information
- Metadata, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and the most current year of data is available free for download at the official website: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/Release/index.php
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2015-12-31T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.964163
- East
- -86.709691
- North
- 47.078351
- South
- 42.457926
- ISO Topic Category
- farming
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
-
Agriculture
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.[The USDA, NASS Cropland Data Layer and the data offered on the CropScape website is provided to the public as is and is considered public domain and free to redistribute. The USDA, NASS does not warrant any conclusions drawn from these data. ]
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- annually
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- USDA-NASS
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- USDA-NASS
- Delivery Point
- 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 5038-S
- City
- Washington
- Administrative Area
- District of Columbia
- Postal Code
- 20250-9410
- Country
- US
- HQ_RDD_GIB@nass.usda.gov
- Phone
- 800-727-9540
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 6.13(9.2.0)
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison
- Process Date
- 2020-02-26T00:00:00
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Raster Dataset
- Format Version
- TIF
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_CDL_2015.zip
- Protocol
- WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
- Name
- GeoData@Wisconsin
- Function
- download
Content Information
- Content Type
- thematicClassification
Spatial Representation Information
- Raster
- Number of Dimensions
- 2
- Column Count
- 15839
- Row Count
- 16959
- Cell Geometry Type
- area
- Corner Points
- Point
- 294823.000000 225101.000000
- Point
- 294823.000000 733871.000000
- Point
- 769993.000000 733871.000000
- Point
- 769993.000000 225101.000000
- Center Point
- 532408.000000 479486.000000
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 92AE73A9-036E-4C17-94B8-0F95E92C8B2D
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2020-02-26
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8
