Land Cover for VCR/LTER Watersheds 1988

This dataset summarizes land cover for each of 65 small watersheds along the Virginia portion of the Atlantic Coast of the Delmarva Peninsula. Watersheds were delineated by Bruce Hayden and John Porter from USGS 1:24,000 scale quadrangle maps and extend down to the 5 ft (1.524) contour. Land cover data comes from the NOAA C-CAP dataset from 1988. To develop this dataset, the watersheds were digitized as ARC/INFO coverages and overlayed with the CCAP data (converted to ARC/INFO polygons from its native ERDAS raster format). The resulting polygon areas were then tabulated using SAS to generate this data file.