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  <dc:creator>Raymond D. Watts</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2005</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring (GAM) program has developed a national, high resolution dataset that gives the distance to the nearest road every 30 meters across the conterminous 48 states. &amp;nbsp;This work provides the first unified national picture of roadless space, vehicular accessibility, and intensity of road construction. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The new dataset is the first member of the National Overview Road Metrics (NORM) family of road related indicators. &amp;nbsp;This indicator measures straight-line or Euclidean distance (ED) to the nearest road, and is given the compound name NORM ED. &amp;nbsp;NORM ED data can be viewed and downloaded from the transportation section of the web viewer for &lt;i&gt;The National Map&lt;/i&gt;, http://nationalmap.usgs.gov. &amp;nbsp;The full-resolution dataset for the conterminous states is made of 8.7 billion values.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3133/fs20053011</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Distance to nearest road in the conterminous United States</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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