Western Washington Land Cover Change


Background:

The Western Washington Land Cover Change Analysis project was to provide land cover data for Western Washington for a 1991 time frame and a comprehensive analysis of change in land cover, impervious surface, and forest canopy for all of Western Washington between 1991 and 2001. Listed below is the final shapefile, project report, and data layers for the project.

Also listed in the table below under the subheading of "Ecology data" are the results of using the data in the report to identify basins which exceeded 40% total impervious area as of 1991.

Links:

Water Quality Program Home

For more information on this project see:

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/stormwater/flowcontrol.html
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/stormwater/manual.html

Data:

Due to the large size of some the Land Cover Change data files, we have made them all available via anonymous FTP:

ftp://www.ecy.wa.gov/gis_a/impervious

To download the files, simply click on the FTP site link or filename below.

Ecology Data Format Filename File Size (kb) View
Basins 1991 Criterion SHP basins.zip 527
Western Washington Counties SHP county.zip 444  
Sanborn Data Format Filename File Size (kb)  
Project Report Word report.zip 1,487  
Final SHP final.zip 11,133
Canopy  
Canopy 91 HARN TIF canopy91.zip 10,547  
Canopy 96 HARN TIF canopy96.zip 10,391  
Canopy 01 HARN TIF canopy01.zip 10,264  
WA 1991 Canopy IMG wa1991canopy.zip 7,878
WA 1996 Canopy IMG wa1996canopy.zip 7,776
WA 2001 Canopy IMG wa2001canopy.zip 7,692
Project WA 191 Grid (E00) project_wa91.zip 44,275  
Project WA 192 Grid (E00) project_wa192.zip 43,860  
Project WA 201 Grid (E00) project_wa201.zip 43,515  
Change  
Change 91 to 01 HARN TIF change9101.zip 33,756  
Change 91 to 96 HARN TIF change9196.zip 31,586  
Change 96 to 01 HARN TIF change9601.zip 31,636  
Washington land cover change, 91 to 01 IMG walcchg9101.zip 27,338
Washington land cover change, 91 to 96 IMG walcchg9196.zip 25,642
Washington land cover change, 96 to 01 IMG walcchg9601.zip 25,516
Project WA l1 Grid (E00) projectwal1.zip 75,171  
Project WA l2 Grid (E00) projectwal2.zip 78,516  
Project WA l3 Grid (E00) projectwal3.zip 75,207  
Impervious  
Impervious 91 HARN TIF impervious91.zip 7,149  
Impervious 96 HARN TIF impervious96.zip 7,416  
Impervious 01 HARN TIF impervious01.zip 7,580  
WA 1991 Impervious IMG wa1991impervious.zip 6,466
WA 1996 Impervious IMG wa1996impervious.zip 6,719
WA 2001 Impervious IMG wa2001impervious.zip 6,873
Project WA 191 Grid (E00) imp_project_wa191.zip 41,509  
Project WA 193 Grid (E00) imp_project_wa193.zip 42,053  
Project WA 201 Grid (E00) imp_project_wa201.zip 42,404  
Land Cover  
WA 1991 Landcover IMG wa1991landcover.zip 25,405
WA 1996 Landcover IMG wa1996landcover.zip 24,879
WA 2001 Landcover IMG wa2001landcover.zip 19,103
WA 2006 Landcover IMG wa2006landcover.zip 19,381
Raw Images  
WA 1991 IMG wa1991.zip 479,903  
WA 1996 IMG wa1996.zip 445,876  
WA 2001 IMG wa2001.zip 474,211  

Contact:

For questions concerning the Impervious Basins Project or data, please contact:

Ed O'Brien
Washington State Department of Ecology
Water Quality Program
P.O. Box 47600
Olympia, Washington 98504-7600
Phone: (360) 407-6438
E-Mail: ed.obrien@ecy.wa.gov

For questions concerning the website, please contact:

Rich Kim
Spatial Database Administrator
Washington State Department of Ecology
GIS Technical Services
P.O. Box 47600
Olympia, Washington 98504-7600
Phone: (360) 407-6121
E-Mail: rich.kim@ecy.wa.gov


Page last updated on Tuesday October 06, 2009 11:59 by Rich Kim