Description: Polygon layer of Jefferson County/City of Louisville parks managed by Metro Parks. Attributes include the park name and type. No annotation.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Name: Jefferson County KY Urban Heat Management Study
Display Field: X
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: This data includes a land cover assessment for implementing the various scenarios that impact temperatures across Louisville. These include, by ½ kilometer grid cell, the percentage of deciduous forest, coniferous forest, mixed forest, grass, shrubbery, cropland, pastureland, barren land, impervious residential properties, impervious nonresidential properties, impervious streets, impervious surfaces at airports, other impervious surfaces, wooded wetland, wetland, and water. The data also show the mean average, minimum and maximum temperatures over the 2012 warm season (May – September), the number of deaths attributable to urban heat over the 2012 warm season, and the estimated avoided deaths that would be achieved by implementing the heat management scenarios. This data is available at the district level and not the entire county due to a lack of availabile health data due to small population within those cells.The distribution of grid cells is also included in the dataset, which covers Jefferson County, Kentucky. All data is presented in GIS format.Two sources of information were used to map land surface materials across Louisville. Parcel, roadway and other impervious surface information was provided by the Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC). Satellite-measured land use information was obtained from the US Geological Survey (USGS).
Copyright Text: The data was acquired and formatted through a contract with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Urban Climate Lab.