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Density of Line Features in the Western United States

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2000

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Steven E. Hanser, and Matthias Leu, 2011, Density of Line Features in the Western United States: U.S. Geological Survey.

Summary

Density of linear features, such as roads, power lines, telephone lines, and railroad tracks have been shown to influence synanthropic predator abundance patterns (Knight et al. 1995). Following Knight et al. (1995), we used linear features such as roads, railroads, and power line spatial data sets, but also included irrigation canals, to build a linear features spatial data set. However, we lacked spatial data on telephone and feeder-power lines and therefore our linear feature spatial data set vastly underestimates the number of linear features in some areas.

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Point of Contact :
FRESC Metadata Coordinator, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Originator :
Steven E. Hanser, Matthias Leu
Metadata Contact :
FRESC Metadata Coordinator, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Publisher :
Wiley
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey, GS ScienceBase

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linedens_hf.xml
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View 		12.58 KB application/fgdc+xml
linedens_hf.tfw 93 Bytes application/unknown
linedens_hf.tif.aux.xml 2.04 KB application/xml
linedens_hf.tif.xml 1 KB application/xml
linedens_hf.tif 790.4 MB image/geotiff

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Density of linear features (e.g., roads, power lines, railroad tracks, etc.) in the western US.

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