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Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine – Study Area (KML)
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posted on 2018-05-11, 03:21 authored by Andrew A. Pericak, Christian J. Thomas, David A. Kroodsma, Matthew F. Wasson, Matthew R. V. Ross, Nicholas E. Clinton, David J. Campagna, Yolandita Franklin, Emily S. Bernhardt, John F. AmosThese data accompany the 2018 manuscript published in PLOS One titled "Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine". In this manuscript, researchers used the Google Earth Engine platform and freely-accessible Landsat imagery to create a yearly dataset (1985 through 2015) of surface coal mining in the Appalachian region of the United States of America.
This specific dataset is a KML file of the study area.