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    Allegheny County Land Cover Areas

    Metadata Updated: May 14, 2023

    The Land Cover dataset demarcates 14 land cover types by area; such as Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Forest, Agriculture, etc.

    If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

    Category:  Geography

    Organization:  Allegheny County

    Department:  Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services

    Temporal Coverage:  1994

    Data Notes: 

    Coordinate System:  Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

    Development Notes:  The dataset was created by Chester Environmental through combined image processing and GIS analysis of Landsat TM imagery of October 2, 1992, existing aerial photography, hardcopy and digital mapping sources and Census Bureau demographic data. The original dataset was created in 1993, then updated by Chester in 1994.

    Other: none

    Related Document(s):  Data Dictionary (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VfUflfki42mpLSkr1R-up_OXGD3mHnv8tqeXf6XS9O0/edit?usp=sharing)

    Frequency - Data Change:  As needed

    Frequency - Publishing:  As needed

    Data Steward Name:  Eli Thomas

    Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 24, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date May 14, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from WPRDC data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 24, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date May 14, 2023
    Publisher Allegheny County
    Maintainer
    Identifier 829733f9-61dd-48ad-a68c-e5193d3ce14b
    Data Last Modified 2023-05-13T17:26:36.827459
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 21042cbf-4819-49cd-b887-03a674342c50
    Harvest Source Id 2b953a26-28c2-4190-ad6c-d0fdc8d2786d
    Harvest Source Title WPRDC data.json
    Homepage URL http://openac-alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/961ee66b67ca4b32bfbcc79bc4ed29ef_0
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -80.3683,40.1849,-80.3683,40.6831,-79.6759,40.6831,-79.6759,40.1849,-80.3683,40.1849}
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 863e317a0f4cc4a8362f85a865593592816f55f6
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -80.3683,40.1849,-80.3683,40.6831,-79.6759,40.6831,-79.6759,40.1849,-80.3683,40.1849}

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