The Smart Location Database is designed to measure location efficiency—transportation costs and environmental impact, in particular. It includes more than 90 attributes summarizing characteristics such as housing density, diversity of land use, neighborhood design, destination accessibility, transit service, employment, and demographics.
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This resource, access to which is limited to account holders (sign up is free), brings together geospatial data coordinated by several Federal Agencies. Topics include ecosystems, geology, soils, climate, cultural resources, transportation, and many others.
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The USGS Landslide Inventory provides a comprehensive spatial database of documented landslides, including their locations, types, and movement characteristics.
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This resource offers a quick way to see the distribution of a number of variables from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture among the counties of Wisconsin.
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The Census of Agriculture Data Dashboard is a quick source of state-level data from 2012, 2017, or 2022. The data topics are high-level and include data about land in farms and producer demographics such as age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
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The CropScape portal interfaces with the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Cropland Data Layer (CDL). CropScape uses remote sensing, ground truthing, and special algorithms to provide a comprehensive 30 x 30 meter census of land cover.
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This resource shows production by county of specialty crops in categories such as fruits, tree nuts, novel oilseeds, and small grains, and the infrastructure needed to move crops from fields to consumers.
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This list of web map applications from the WI Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection provides access to data on agricultural land-use designations and regulatory boundaries, allowing for highly localized technical assistance.
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The USDA Food Access Research Atlas and associated mapping tools provide county-level data identifying low-access areas by measuring the number of various types of food stores or markets by county and showing access indicators for different populations.
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Headwaters Economics is a nonprofit research group focusing on community development and land management. Offered here are a number of tools designed to assess various types of risk at the county or community level.
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