Process_Description:
Agricultural areas classified as irrigated were queried and subset from the 1983, 1997, and 2001 COHYST land cover classifications. Irrigated areas from 1982 were re coded and given a value of 2, irrigated areas from 1997 were re coded and given a value of 5, and areas found to be irrigated in 2001 were re coded and given a value of 10. These three separate recoded raster files were added together in Arc GRID module. The resulting raster grid has seven classes 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, and 17. Cells with a value of 2 represent areas irrigated only in 1982, cells with a value of 5 represent areas irrigated only in 1997, cells with a value of 7 represent areas irrigated in 1982 and 1997, cells with a value of 10 represent areas irrigated only in 2001, cells with a value of 12 represent areas irrigated in 1982 and 2001, cells with a value of 15 represent areas irrigated in 1997 and 2001, and cells with a value of 17 represent areas irrigated in 1982, 1997, and 2001.