June 06, 2011 The download named "SantaCruzLULC.zip" is a Zipped data folder containing raster land use/land cover maps associated with the publication: Villarreal, M.L., Norman, L.M., Wallace, C.S.A., and van Riper, Charles, III, 2011, A multitemporal (1979-2009) land-use/land-cover dataset of the binational Santa Cruz watershed: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1131, 26 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1131/]. ___________________________________________________________ "1979SCWLULC" is the Raster Imagine file that is classified land cover of the Santa Cruz watershed for 1979. "1989SCWLULC" is the Raster Imagine file that is classified land cover of the Santa Cruz watershed for 1989. "1999SCWLULC" is the Raster Imagine file that is classified land cover of the Santa Cruz watershed for 1999. "2009SCWLULC" is the Raster Imagine file that is classified land cover of the Santa Cruz watershed for 2009. Metadata describing the classification process is available in the manuscript cited above, and each raster file contains a .xml metadata file. Miguel Villarreal, Ph.D. Research Associate School of Natural Resources and the Environment University of Arizona 520 N. Park Avenue, Suite #102G, Tucson, AZ 85719-5035 ph (520) 670-5567 miguel@email.arizona.edu mvillarreal@usgs.gov