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National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011)

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posted on 2024-02-13, 13:06 authored by Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC)
<p>National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011) is the most recent national land cover product created by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. NLCD 2011 provides - for the first time - the capability to assess wall-to-wall, spatially explicit, national land cover changes and trends across the United States from 2001 to 2011. As with two previous NLCD land cover products NLCD 2011 keeps the same 16-class land cover classification scheme that has been applied consistently across the United States at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. NLCD 2011 is based primarily on a decision-tree classification of circa 2011 Landsat satellite data.</p> <p>[Note: The scheduled release date for NLCD 2016 products is Friday, December 28, 2018] </p><div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: Website Pointer to National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011).</p> <p>File Name: Web Page, url: <a href="https://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd2011.php">https://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd2011.php</a> </p><p>Includes product description, data downloads (Conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico), production statistics, and related references.</p></li></ul><p></p>

Funding

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

USDA-FS

U.S. Geological Survey

USDA-NASS

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

U.S. Bureau of Land Management

National Park Service

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

History

Related Materials

  1. 1.
    URL - Is supplement to Homer, C. G., Dewitz, J. A., Yang, L., Jin, S., Danielson, P., Xian, G., Coulston, J., Herold, N. D., Wickham, J. D., & Megown, K. (2015). Completion of the 2011 National Land Cover Database for the conterminous United States - Representing a decade of land cover change information. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 81(5), 345-354. https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntryId=309950
  2. 2.
    URL - Is documented by Homer, C. G., Dewitz, J. A., Yang, L., Jin, S., Danielson, P., Xian, G., Coulston, J., Herold, N. D., Wickham, J. D., & Megown, K. (2015). Completion of the 2011 National Land Cover Database for the conterminous United States - Representing a decade of land cover change information. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 81(5), 345-354. https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntryId=309950
  3. 3.
    URL - Is supplemented by Merrill, D., Leatherby, L. (2018). Here’s how America uses its land. Bloomberg. [https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/)

Data contact name

MRLC Project

Data contact email

custserv@usgs.gov

Publisher

Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC)

Temporal Extent Start Date

2001-01-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2011-12-31

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

Geographic location - description

United States; Alaska; Hawaii; Puerto Rico

ISO Topic Category

  • biota
  • boundaries
  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • elevation
  • environment
  • farming
  • geoscientificInformation
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • inlandWaters
  • location
  • oceans

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

land cover; databases; United States; decision support systems; Landsat; remote sensing; thematic maps; canopy; monitoring; evolution; climate; education; land management; hydrology; planning; risk; telecommunications; surveys; United States Geological Survey; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; coasts; forests; trees

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC) (2018). National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011). Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC).

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    Keywords

    National Land Cover DatabaseNLCD

    Licence

    U.S. Public Domain

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