Water-Related Land Use for Utah, Annual Polygon Map Data
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Description
Utah water usage-related polygon map data, published annually by the Utah Division of Water Resources. The dataset depicts the types and extent of irrigated crops, phreatophytes, wet/open water areas, dry land agriculture, and residential/industrial areas. It is aggregated from NASA EarthData by the organization SCIOPS.
Use Cases
Modeling water demand for agriculture based on irrigated crop extents.
Analyzing land cover change over time based on annual polygon updates.
Mapping the distribution of phreatophytes to study riparian water consumption.
Assessing urban and industrial water use footprints based on residential/industrial area data.
Strengths
Annual publication schedule provides potential for time-series analysis.
Polygon map data allows for spatial analysis of land use categories.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
Utah Division of Water Resources at DNR.
Collection Method
Likely derived from remote sensing and/or administrative data.
Time Range
Annual coverage, but specific years are unknown.
Freshness
Published annually, but specific last update is unknown.
Geography
State of Utah, USA.
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