Title:

Spatial realizations of county-level land use projections for the conterminous United States, 2020-2070, used in the 2020 RPA Assessment

Author(s):

Brooks, Evan B.; Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wear, David N.

Publication Year:

2023

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Brooks, Evan B.; Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wear, David N. 2023. Spatial realizations of county-level land use projections for the conterminous United States, 2020-2070, used in the 2020 RPA Assessment. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0015

Abstract:

These data, denoted collectively as the spatial realizations, are comprised of 2001 rasters of 90-meter resolution, with each raster representing the conterminous United States (CONUS) land base. One raster represents the base land use in 2020; the other rasters represent projections according to year (decadal time step 2030 through 2070), scenario-climate future (four socioeceonomic pathways, intersected with five climate projections), and case (twenty cases of a parameter driving the degree of contagious allocation of projected land use changes). Projected rasters were generated by allocating county-level gross land use change projections across the base map. Collectively, the spatial realizations represent a wall-to-wall scenario-based projection of land use and its spatial pattern across the conterminous United States.

Keywords:

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; demand-allocation; spatial realizations; landscape pattern; contagious allocation; RPA Assessment; Resources Planning Act Assessment; conterminous United States; CONUS; lower 48 states

Related publications:

• Brooks, Evan B.; Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wear, David N. 2020. Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns. PLOS One. 15(10): e0240097. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240097 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/61532
• Riitters, Kurt; Coulston, John W.; Mihiar, Christopher; Brooks, Evan B.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Nelson, Mark D.; Domke, Grant M.; Mockrin, Miranda; Lewis, David J.; Nowak, David J. 2023. Chapter 4: Land Resources. 4-1 - 4-37. https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-GTR-102-Chap4 In: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 2023. Future of America’s Forest and Rangelands: Forest Service 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment. General Technical Report. WO-102. Washington, DC: 348 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-GTR-102

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