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Contiguous United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii)

Every 5 years

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Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium. "2016 USA land cover." National Land Cover Database. Accessed through Global Forest Watch on [date]. www.globalforestwatch.org

USA land cover

Jin, S., Yang, L., Danielson, P., Homer, C., Fry, J., and Xian, G. 2013. “A comprehensive change detection method for updating the National Land Cover Database to circa 2016.” Remote Sensing of Environment, 132: 159 – 175.

U.S. Federal data is offered for free and without restriction. [https://project-open-data.cio.gov/policy-memo/](https://project-open-data.cio.gov/policy-memo/)

The National Land Cover Database 2016 (NLCD 2016) is the most recent national data product created by the United States Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications. NLCD 2016 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 2016. As with two previous NLCD land cover products NLCD 2016 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 2016 is based primarily on a decision-tree classification of circa 2016 Landsat satellite data. Land cover class categories include forest, planted/cultivated lands, wetland, grassland, water, developed areas and barren land. Land cover information is critical for local, state, and federal managers and officials to assist them with issues such as assessing ecosystem status and health, modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff, understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity, land use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policies.

Identifies land cover for the United States, utilizing the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for 2016

NLCD land cover products have been published for 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016. A formal accuracy assessment has not been conducted for NLCD 2016 Land Cover. An assessment of accuracy for the NLCD land cover product found overall accuracies for the 2001 and 2006 products were 79% and 78%, respectively, with accuracies exceeding 80% for water, high density urban, all upland forest classes, shrubland, and cropland for both dates.

Country data

http://www.mrlc.gov/index.php

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