Nebraska Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)

Metadata:


Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Dean Oman
Publication_Date: 2002
Title:
Nebraska Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Washington DC
Publisher: USDA/NRCS/NHQ/RAD
Other_Citation_Details:
State of the Land Coverage
Online_Linkage: http://dnr.ne.gov/databank/soilsall.html
Online_Linkage: ftp://dnrftp.dnr.ne.gov/pub/data/state/mlra.e00
Description:
Abstract:
Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) boundaries for the conterminous United States.
Purpose:
This coverage is intended as a basemap for US national level natural resource
analysis.
Supplemental_Information:
Procedures_Used
This coverage contains the Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) boundaries for the
conterminous United States.  MLRA boundaries were revised in the mid-1990s from
earlier versions established in the 1970s and 1980s by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly the
Soil Conservation Service (SCS).  The revised MLRA boundary coverage was
digitized at the Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, the most recent
version of which was completed in January of 1997.  Buffer polygons were added
to the U.S. national boundaries and shoreline by NRCS National Cartography and
Geospatial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for use with NRCS National Resources
Inventory (NRI) digitized sample sites.  These buffered boundaries were later
removed by the NRCS National Headquarters office, Resource Assessment Division
(RAD) in May 2000, and the national shoreline and outer boundaries were made
to conform to standard boundaries established for State of the Land series
maps (http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/).  Those standard U.S. national
boundaries and shoreline are based on 1:2,000,000 scale 8-digit hydrologic
unit coverage obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey, circa 1990, and were
edited by the National Center for Resource Innovations (NCRI) in Washington,
DC, and subsequently by NRCS/NHQ/RAD.

Revisions
The coverage was last updated in 2002.

Reviews_Applied_to_Data
This coverage has received no formal review.

Related_Spatial_and_Tabular_Data_Sets
This MLRA coverage is intended to have the same shoreline and outer boundaries
as other coverages available in the NRCS State of the Land series (available
online at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/), although their precise
correspondance has not been thoroughly verified.  These coverages include
counties, 8-digit hydrologic units, and Federal lands, derived from USGS
coverages, circa 1990.

References_Cited
NRCS National Headquarters, Resource Assessment Division (RAD).
See USDA Agriculture Handbook 296 "Land Resource Regions and Major Resource
Areas of the United States" for a look at an earlier version of the map and
an explanation of MLRA and LRR designations.

Notes
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: REQUIRED: The year (and optionally month, or month and day) for which the data set corresponds to the ground.
Currentness_Reference:
This coverage was last updated in 2002.
Status:
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Not established.
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -104.180687
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -95.088858
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.070304
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.903771
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: United States, conterminous 48 states
Place_Keyword: Nebraska
Stratum:
Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints:
This coverage is designed for national, regional and state level analysis.  It
may or may not be appropriate for use at larger scales.  This map does not meet National Map Accuracy Standards.  An improved version
of the currently established MLRA lines is in development.
Use_Constraints:


Data_Set_Credit:
Sharon Waltman (swaltman@nssc.nrcs.usda.gov), USDA/NRCS National Soil Survey Cen
boundary lines, excluding the U.S. national outline and lines immediately
attached to it, which were replaced by later edits.

Kevin Grantham, USDA/NRCS National Cartographic and Geospatial Center added
buffer polygons to the U.S. national boundaries.

Dean Oman (dean.oman@usda.gov), USDA/NRCS National Headquaters, Resource
Assessment Division, replaced the U.S. national shoreline and outer boundaries
(including buffer polygons added by Kevin Grantham) with boundaries
established for State of the Land series maps.
(http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/)

George Muehlbach, National Center for Resource Innovations (NCRI), Washington,
DC, made the initial shoreline and national boundary adjustments to the
1:2,000,000 scale coverages obtained from the United States Geological Survey,
which also serve as the shoreline and outer national boundaries for this MLRA
coverage.
Security_Information:
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Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description: None
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Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Dean Oman
Publication_Date: 2002
Title:
Major Land Resource Area Boundaries for the Conterminous United States
Series_Information:
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Washington
Publisher: USDA/NRCS/NHQ/RAD
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Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 18
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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 19
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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 4
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Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Grid_Coordinate_System:
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: State Plane Coordinate System 1983
State_Plane_Coordinate_System:
SPCS_Zone_Identifier: 2600
Lambert_Conformal_Conic:
Standard_Parallel: 40.000000
Standard_Parallel: 43.000000
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -100.000000
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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: gisbasedata.GISWRITER.NEB_MLRA
Entity_Type_Definition:
Major Land Resource Areas for the Conterminous 48 States
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Attribute_Label: SHAPE.len
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
US48MLRA.PAT, polygon attribute table of US48MLRA, using ARC/INFO software.

AREA:         Area of poly/region in square coverage units.
PERIMETER:    Perimeter of poly/region in coverage units.
US48MLRA#:    Internal feature number.
US48MLRA-ID:  User-assigned feature number.
MLRA:         Major Land Resource Area designation code.
MLRANAME:     Major Land Resource Area designation name.
MO:
LRR:          Land Resource Region designation code.
LRRNAME:      Land Resource Region designation name.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
Not Available
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Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
301 Centennial Mall South
City: Lincoln
State_or_Province: NE
Postal_Code: 68509-4676
Country: United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 402-471-2363
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 402-471-2900
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dnr.gis@nebraska.gov
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Standard_Order_Process:
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20080821
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact_Address:
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Address:
301 Centennial Mall South
Address:
P.O. Box 94676
City: Lincoln
State_or_Province: NE
Postal_Code: 68509-4676
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 402-471-2363
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 402-471-2900
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dnr.gis@nebraska.gov
Hours_of_Service: 8:00-5:00 CST
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Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
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