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Little River Experimental Watershed, Tifton, Georgia, United States: A historical geographic database of conservation practice implementation
Author(s) -
Sullivan D. G.,
Batten H. L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/2007wr006143
Subject(s) - watershed , shapefile , north american datum of 1927 , geography , database , geodetic datum , drainage basin , geological survey , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental resource management , cartography , metadata , environmental science , geology , computer science , world wide web , paleontology , geotechnical engineering , machine learning
The Little River Experimental Watershed located in the headwaters of the Upper Suwannee River basin is one of twelve national benchmark watersheds participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation Effects Assessment Project–Watershed Assessment Studies (CEAP‐WAS). Historical paper files and maps (circa 1980–2006) were collected and used to develop a geographic database of conservation practices supported by the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. The CEAP‐WAS database can be queried by conservation practice, total acreages enrolled, year of implementation, and location. The CEAP‐WAS database is integral to understanding the links between conservation practice implementation and placement with observed changes in hydrologic processes within a small southern Coastal Plain watershed. All associated geographic information has been provided in shapefile format and has been projected into universal transverse Mercator coordinates (zone 17), using NAD83 as the datum and GRS80 as the ellipsoid. Data may be accessed via ftp://www.tiftonars.org/, archived in a folder named ceap_data.