Land Resource Regions (LRR) boundaries for the conterminous United States. Intended as a basemap for US national level natural resource analysis.
For use with the GEOSTAC database, this data layer was compiled in order to simplify the pesticide risk assessment and provide a common data set for all stakeholders.
This coverage contains the Land Resource Regions (LRR) boundaries for the conterminous United States. LRR boundaries were derived from the Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) boundaries for the conterminous United States compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and last updated in 2002. The original, source GIS files and metadata document for the MLRA data set, available at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/aboutmaps/coverages.html, provides additional details as to the compilation process of MLRA boundaries.
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Designed for national, regional and state level analysis. It may or may not be appropriate for use at larger scales. This data set does not meet National Map Accuracy Standards.
897-B Harrison Street, S.E.
Land Resource Regions were derived from the Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) boundaries for the conterminous United States compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and last updated in 2002.
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Polygon topology present.
Resolution as reported
Converted source USDA, NRCS, MLRA data downloaded from http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/aboutmaps/coverages.html to ArcGIS geodatabase feature class file format.
Projected feature class to Albers Equal Area and NAD 83 datum.
Import and edit source metadata document available from http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/aboutmaps/us48mlra.html#section7.
Aggregate data using the Geospatial processing tool, Dissolve, on the LLR field in order to generate Land Resource Region data set.
Dataset copied.
Feature geometry.
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Area of feature in internal units squared.
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Length of feature in internal units.
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Land Resource Region Code
National Atlas of the United States
Internal feature number.
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Internal feature number
Computed
1500 Research Parkway, Suite B223
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Data can be downloaded from www.geostac.org with a registered user ID and password provided by the Spatial Sciences Laboratory.
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897-B Harrison Street, S.E