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National Land Cover Database (NLCD)

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The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides nation-wide data on land cover and land cover change at the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) 30-meter resolution. NLCD provides spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of the land surface such as thematic class (e.g., urban, agriculture, and forest), percent impervious surface, and percent tree canopy cover.

Citation Information

Publication Year 2016
Title National Land Cover Database (NLCD)
Product Type Real-time Data
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog