SLEUTH Projected Urban Growth

This dataset represents the extent of urbanization (for the year indicated) predicted by the model SLEUTH, developed by Dr. Keith C. Clarke, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography and modified by David I. Donato of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC). Further model modification and implementation was performed at the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center at North Carolina State University.Urban growth probability extents throughout the 21st century were projected for the Southeast Regional Assessment Project (SERAP), which encompasses all or parts of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Urban modeling for a large portion of the Appalachian, Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks, and Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, which encompasses parts of the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Urban modeling for a large portion of these areas were completed earlier by the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center as part of the Southeast Regional Assessment Project (SERAP). These data are supplementary to those projections.