Historical Land Use Change in the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River

The animation on this page illustrates land use change in the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River over the period 1938 - 2000. Yellow indicates agricultural land uses, Green indicates forested land uses, Red indicates urban land uses.

Please see: Moglen, G.E. and R.E. Beighley, (2002). "Spatially Explicit Hydrologic Modeling of Land Use Change." Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 38(1): 241-253 for more information on how this land use time series was compiled.