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Allegheny County Land Cover Areas

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Title
Allegheny County Land Cover Areas
Description
The Land Cover dataset demarcates 14 land cover types by area; such as Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Forest, Agriculture, etc. If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center's open data portal ( http://www.wprdc.org ), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County's GIS data portal ( http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/ ). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County's GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the "Explore" button (and choosing the "Go to resource" option) to the right of the "ArcGIS Open Dataset" text below. Category: Geography Organization: Allegheny County Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services Temporal Coverage: 1994 Data Notes: Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot Development Notes: The dataset was created by Chester Environmental through combined image processing and GIS analysis of Landsat TM imagery of October 2, 1992, existing aerial photography, hardcopy and digital mapping sources and Census Bureau demographic data. The original dataset was created in 1993, then updated by Chester in 1994. Other: none Related Document(s): Data Dictionary ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VfUflfki42mpLSkr1R-up_OXGD3mHnv8tqeXf6XS9O0/edit?usp=sharing ) Frequency - Data Change: As needed Frequency - Publishing: As needed Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us
Creator
Allegheny County
Publisher
Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center Open Data
Subject
Geography, Housing & Properties, Transportation
Temporal Coverage
Last Modified: 2026-02-21
Date Issued
2023-05-21
Access Rights
Public
Language
English
Date Added
March 31, 2026
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center Open Data on 2026-03-30.

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    Allegheny County (2023). Allegheny County Land Cover Areas. Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center Open Data. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/allegheny-county-land-cover-areas (dataset)
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