SBC LTER: Land: Catchment characteristics along the southern coast of Santa Barbara County in Geodatabase

This data package include GIS layers stored in Geodatabase. The layers describe the characteristics of the catchments along the southern coast of Santa Barbara County used in the article Aguilera, R., & Melack, J. M. (2018). Relationships among nutrient and sediment fluxes, hydrological variability, fire, and land cover in coastal California catchments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123, 2568– 2589. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JG004119. Catchment characteristics include: Land cover and land use based on hyperspectral imagery obtained by the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer; number of inhabitants based on population counts by block from the 2010 census spatial database; relief and slopes estimated from a 30 m digital elevation model; geological substrata obtained from geologic maps of California; soil textural types based on the Soil Survey Geographic data, and fire perimeters for the Gaviota, Gap, Tea and Jesusita fires.