Land Use and Land Cover Data for the StreamStats Application in the Neponset River Watershed, Massachusetts, 2026
This data release contains the Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) data available in the Neponset River Basin StreamStats application. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used the hydrologic response unit (HRU) approach outlined in EPA (2023) to derive the LULC raster from Massachusetts 2016 LULC data from MassGIS (2019), and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Survey Geographic aggregated soil data from MassGIS (2022) and General Soil Map from NRCS (2022).
This release contains a complete thematic raster for the Neponset River watershed as a tag image file (.tif) format raster. Additionally, the raster was broken out into 24 individual binary rasters in Cloud-Optimized GeoTiff (COG) format representing each classification type for use in StreamStats.
Find Related Datasets
Search by Tags
Click any tag below to search for similar datasets
Complete Metadata
| accessLevel | public |
|---|---|
| bureauCode |
[ "010:12" ] |
| contactPoint |
{ "fn": "Laura E. Luongo", "@type": "vcard:Contact", "hasEmail": "mailto:lharrington@usgs.gov" } |
| description | This data release contains the Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) data available in the Neponset River Basin StreamStats application. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used the hydrologic response unit (HRU) approach outlined in EPA (2023) to derive the LULC raster from Massachusetts 2016 LULC data from MassGIS (2019), and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Survey Geographic aggregated soil data from MassGIS (2022) and General Soil Map from NRCS (2022). This release contains a complete thematic raster for the Neponset River watershed as a tag image file (.tif) format raster. Additionally, the raster was broken out into 24 individual binary rasters in Cloud-Optimized GeoTiff (COG) format representing each classification type for use in StreamStats. |
| distribution |
[ { "@type": "dcat:Distribution", "title": "Digital Data", "format": "XML", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P1NFQWFI.", "mediaType": "application/http", "description": "Landing page for access to the data" }, { "@type": "dcat:Distribution", "title": "Original Metadata", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.691cfb8ad4be021d1d89b491.xml" } ] |
| identifier | http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_691cfb8ad4be021d1d89b491 |
| keyword |
[ "Boston", "Canton", "Dedham", "Dover", "Foxborough", "Massachusetts", "Medfield", "Middlesex County", "Milton", "Neponset", "Norfolk County", "Norwood", "Quincy", "Randolph", "Sharon", "Stoughton", "Suffolk County", "USGS:691cfb8ad4be021d1d89b491", "Walpole", "Westwood", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "geospatial datasets", "hydrology", "land surface characteristics", "land use and land cover", "runoff", "soil resources" ] |
| modified | 2026-09-25T00:00:00Z |
| publisher |
{ "name": "U.S. Geological Survey", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
| spatial | -71.2959, 42.0709, -71.0205, 42.3069 |
| theme |
[ "geospatial" ] |
| title | Land Use and Land Cover Data for the StreamStats Application in the Neponset River Watershed, Massachusetts, 2026 |
