Table 2 Input dataset file descriptions.

From: The changing face of floodplains in the Mississippi River Basin detected by a 60-year land use change dataset

Folder Name: Input Data

ID

Subfolder/File Name

File Type

Content Description

Provenance

1

MRB_floodplain

GIS raster*

Riverine floodplain extents within the Mississippi River Basin (MRB), clipped from the GFPLAIN250m floodplain dataset

• 250-m grid, GeoTIFF format

• Albers Equal Area Conic projected coordinate

Nardi et al.27.

2

MRB_floodplain_LU

GIS raster*

Input land use dataset for change detection

• Clipped for the MRB floodplain extent

• Modified to have seven generic land use classes

• One corresponding dataset for each of the years from 1941 to 2000

Sohl et al.28,29; Supplementary Table 2

3

Reference_LU

GIS raster*

Reference land use dataset used for validation purposes (see items #10 and 11 in Table 3)

• Clipped for the MRB floodplain extent

• Modified to have same land use classes as in item #2

• One corresponding dataset for each of the years from 1992 to 2000

European Space Agency58; Supplementary Table 3

4

Reference_floodplain

GIS raster

Riverine floodplain extents within the MRB, clipped from the European Commission Joint Research Centre Global Flood Maps (GFM)

• 1000-m grid, GeoTIFF format

Dottori et al.56

  1. Note: All GIS raster and shapefile datasets are in the Albers Equal Area Conic projected coordinate system. *The raster datasets are in GeoTIFF format at 250-m spatial resolution (except item # 4).
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