The changing face of floodplains in the Mississippi River Basin detected by a 60-year land use change dataset.

ABSTRACT: Floodplains provide essential ecosystem functions, yet >80% of European and North American floodplains are substantially modified. Despite floodplain changes over the past century, comprehensive, long-term land use change data within large river basin floodplains are limited. Long-term land use data can be used to quantify floodplain functions and provide spatially explicit information for management, restoration, and flood-risk mitigation. We present a comprehensive dataset quantifying floodplain land use change along the 3.3 million km² Mississippi River Basin (MRB) covering 60 years (1941-2000) at 250-m resolution. We developed four unique products as part of this work, a(n): (i) Google Earth Engine interactive map visualization interface, (ii) Python code that runs in any in

SUBMITTER: Rajib A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8520011 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature