Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine — Study Area (shapefile)

These data accompany the 2018 manuscript published in <i>PLOS One</i> titled "Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine". In this manuscript, researchers used the Google Earth Engine platform and freely-accessible Landsat imagery to create a yearly dataset (1985 through 2015) of surface coal mining in the Appalachian region of the United States of America. <br>This specific dataset is an Esri shapefile of the study area.

本数据集配套2018年发表于《公共科学图书馆·综合（PLOS One）》的研究论文《使用陆地卫星（Landsat）与谷歌地球引擎（Google Earth Engine）绘制阿巴拉契亚中部地表煤矿开采年度范围》。在该项研究中，研究者依托谷歌地球引擎平台与公开可获取的陆地卫星影像，构建了1985年至2015年间美国阿巴拉契亚地区地表煤矿开采活动的年度数据集。
本数据集为该研究区域的Esri形状文件（shapefile）。