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WorldView-3 satellite imagery and crop residue field data collection, Talbot County, MD, May 2015

March 11, 2019

This data release contains field sampling data collected on a farm located in Talbot County. Maryland, roadside survey data from the area surrounding the farm, and WorldView-3 satellite data of the study area. Datasets include: 1) CropResidueDataset.csv: Tabular data for 174 photo sampling locations with crop residue cover ranging from 0% to 98%, as well as line-point transect residue cover measurements and lat-lon geolocations 2) Roadside_Survey_May14th2015.zip: Zipfile containing roadside survey data for 63 fields documenting percent crop residue cover, including shapefile of field boundaries 3) GroundCoverPhotographs.zip: Zipfile containing 174 nadir photographs that were the basis for ground cover calculations 4) WorldView-3 satellite imagery collected May 14, 2015 and converted to surface reflectance using MODTRAN

Publication Year 2019
Title WorldView-3 satellite imagery and crop residue field data collection, Talbot County, MD, May 2015
DOI 10.5066/F7930SDB
Authors Craig S.T. Daughtry, Wells D Hively, Gregory W. McCarty
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization Eastern Geographic Science Center
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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