USGS Small-scale Dataset - Satellite View of the Conterminous United States, with Shaded Relief 200512 GeoTIFF

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The Satellite View of the Conterminous United States, with Shaded Relief map layer is a 200-meter-resolution simulated-natural-color image of the United States. Vegetation is generally green, with forests in darker green and grasslands or shrublands in lighter green. Areas of high reflectance, including urban areas, rock, and dry bare soil, are shown in shades of pink. Very bright areas, such as snow and ice, are colored blue. The image was produced by combining Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery from the Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 satellites with relief enhanced by shading. This map layer was previously distributed as Satellite View of the Conterminous United States.
Citation
Title USGS Small-scale Dataset - Satellite View of the Conterminous United States, with Shaded Relief 200512 GeoTIFF
publication  Date   2005-12-01
presentationForm  mapDigital
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Address
, Reston, VA
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/nationalatlas/satvw0i200l_nt00257.tar.gz
Topic Category:  elevation,imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
National Atlas of the United States
DEM
Digital Elevation Model
Elevation
Imagery
Landsat
National Elevation Dataset
NED
Remote Sensing
Satellite Imagery
Shaded Relief
Thematic Mapper
TM
Topographic
Topography
thesaurus name >
Title None
Theme keywords (theme):
Small-scale Datasets
Small-scale Datasets - Orthoimagery
Small-scale Datasets - Elevation
thesaurus name >
Title The National Map Collection Thesaurus
Theme keywords (theme):
Downloadable Data
thesaurus name >
Title The National Map Type Thesaurus
Theme keywords (theme):
Small-scale Datasets
thesaurus name >
Title The National Map Theme Thesaurus
Theme keywords (theme):
Contiguous US
thesaurus name >
Title The National Map Product Extent Thesaurus
Theme keywords (theme):
GeoTIFF
thesaurus name >
Title The National Map Product Format Thesaurus
Location keywords:
North America
United States
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
thesaurus name >
Title None
purpose:
The Satellite View with Shaded Relief image was developed to portray the terrain and land cover of the conterminous United States. The image is intended for visual purposes only. The original Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and National Elevation Dataset (NED) data must be used for conducting analysis.
Browse image (thumbnail):
thumbnail file name:  ...
file type: PNG
thumbnail file description:  Thumbnail PNG image
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: None. Acknowledgment of the National Atlas of the United States would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None.
Spatial representation type code:  grid
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: 3-band TIFF format created using ArcInfo 8.3 and then processed through custom software to create the GeoTIFF format.
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -133
eastBoundLongitude  -59
northBoundLatitude  54
southBoundLatitude  19
Temporal Extent
1987-01-01 1993-01-01
Additional information on resource:
Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 satellites carry sensors that detect reflected or emitted energy from the Earth in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. The sensors operate in seven spectral bands. For more information on the Landsat satellites, see the Landsat Fact Sheet at http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs02303.html. The associated world file is included as part of the GeoTIFF. The contents of the world file are: >200.0000 >0.000000 >0.000000 >-200.0000 >-2262900.0000 >1038900.0000 The following projection file can be used when using ESRI's ArcGIS to view the GeoTIFF (any line breaks should be removed): PROJCS["NAD_1983_Lambert_Azimuthal_Equal_Area",GEOGCS ["GCS_Sphere_ARC_INFO",DATUM["D_Sphere_ARC_INFO",SPHEROID ["Sphere_ARC_INFO",6370997.0,0.0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0], UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION ["Lambert_Azimuthal_Equal_Area"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0], PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian", -100.0],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",45.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]] The clipped elevation grid used to create the shaded relief, the land/water mask used to clip the image, and the U.S. land/non-U.S. land mask used to set the color for areas outside the United States, all of which were used to create this image, are available on request. Please contact the National Atlas at atlasmail@usgs.gov for more information. See the Cross Reference for information on obtaining the clipped Satellite View used to create this image. ; {"gdaId" : 6065825}
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name L. Greg Matheson
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 703-648-5077
Address
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 561, Reston, VA, 20192 Country USA
electronic Mail Address lmatheso@usgs.gov
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Grid spatial representation

number of grid dimensions: 2
Grid axis property:
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  row
Dimension Size 17280
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  column
Dimension Size 25740
cell geometry type:  area
transformation parameter availability: 
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Coverage description

Type of coverage content 
Cell value attribute description:  
Band
descriptor Color values for the 3 bands of the TIFF image.
sequence Identifier
name Red-green-blue values for the TIFF image of satellite imagery combined with shaded relief
Long Wavelength  255
Short Wavelength  0
units
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Content information: feature catalog description

Included With Dataset  true
Feature Types  
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
source
source description  Source Contribution: Shoreline mask for area of coverage.Source Type Internal file
source citation
Title Shoreline file in Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection
publication  Date   1999-01-01
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  National Atlas of the United States
Contact information
Address
, Reston, VA
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  National Atlas of the United States
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1972-01-01 1999-01-01
source
source description  Source Contribution: Spatial informationSource Type Internal file
source citation
Title Land/Water Mask
publication  Date  
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  USGS, National Center for EROS
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2004-01-01
source
source description  Source Contribution: Spatial informationSource Type Internal file
source citation
Title U.S. Land/non-U.S. Land Mask
publication  Date  
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  USGS, National Center for EROS
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2004-01-01
source
source description  Source Contribution: Spatial and attribute information.Source Type CD-ROM
source citation
Title United States of America Digital Landsat Mosaics
publication  Date   2002-01-01
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Address
, Sioux Falls, SD
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1987-01-01 1993-01-01
source
source description  Source Contribution: Spatial informationSource Type Internal file
source citation
Title Clipped Conterminous United States Landsat Mosaic
publication  Date  
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  USGS, National Center for EROS
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1987-01-01 1993-01-01
source
source description  Source Contribution: Elevation information.Source Type Online
source citation
Title National Elevation Dataset
publication  Date   2002-01-01
Edition 1
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Address
, Sioux Falls, SD
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://ned.usgs.gov/
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2002-09-01
source
source description  Source Contribution: Elevation informationSource Type Internal file
source citation
Title Clipped Conterminous United States NED
publication  Date  
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  USGS, National Center for EROS
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1993-01-01 2002-09-01
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  Data completeness reflects the content of the original Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and the NED elevation data.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  Data completeness reflects the content of the original Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and the NED elevation data.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  No tests for logical consistency have been performed on this map layer.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  Earth Science Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1-888-ASK-USGS (1-888-275-8747)
Address
507 National Center, Reston, VA, 20192 Country USA
contact Instructions
In addition to the address above there are other ESIC offices throughout the country. A full list of these offices is at http://ask.usgs.gov/esic_index.html.
Standard ordering process
fees There is no charge for the map layer.
Format
Format name GeoTIFF
Format version 
Digital Transfer Options
transfer Size 530.235249
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/nationalatlas/satvw0i200l_nt00257.tar.gz

Metadata data stamp:  2014-07-24
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata Constraints
Security Constraints
Classification  unclassified
Classification System None
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Peg Rawson
organisation Name  National Atlas of the United States
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 703-648-4183
Address
12201 Sunrise Valley DriveMS-561, Reston, VA, 20192 Country USA
electronic Mail Address atlasmail@usgs.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  75025cef-8238-4cde-a043-ed9dad5f04c3

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)