Cropland Data Layer Data for the Snake River Basin, USA, 2010-2017

Cropland Data Layer (CDL) data from the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), subset spatially to cover the Snake River Basin, USA for years 2010-2017, inclusive. This data is the raw data used to support initialization of the Janus agent based model of land use land cover change. It was developed by downloading CDL data from the USDA NASS site for an area of interest encompassing the Snake River Basin for individual years from 2010-2017. Data were converted to a georeferenced GeoTiff format using the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) command line interface. They were then concatenated into a single dataset using the rioxarray python library and saved as a CF-compliant NetCDF4 file using the xarray python library. Note that this file is saved with zlib compression level 1 and, therefore, users may experience a slowdown upon initial reading of the file.