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National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2019 Products (ver. 3.0, February 2024)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2001
End Date
2019
Last Revision
2024-02-29

Citation

Dewitz, J., and U.S. Geological Survey, 2021, National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2019 Products (ver. 3.0, February 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KZCM54.

Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has developed and released five National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the past two decades: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016. The 2016 release saw landcover created for additional years of 2003, 2008, and 2013. These products provide spatially explicit and reliable information on the Nation’s land cover and land cover change. To continue the legacy of NLCD and further establish a long-term monitoring capability for the Nation’s land resources, the USGS has designed a new generation of NLCD products named NLCD 2019. The NLCD 2019 design aims to provide innovative, consistent, and robust methodologies for production of a multi-temporal land [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
Process Contact :
Jon Dewitz
Originator :
U.S. Geological Survey, Jon Dewitz
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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NLCD_2019_All_Products (ver. 2.0, June 2021).xml
“Summary Metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		67.71 KB application/fgdc+xml
NLCD_landcover_2011.jpg
“NLCD Land Cover Image” 		thumbnail 3.31 MB image/jpeg
NLCD2019_RevisionHistory.txt
“Revision History” 		1.5 KB text/plain

Purpose

The goal of this project is to provide the Nation with complete, current, and consistent public domain information on its land use and land cover.
NLCD Land Cover Image
NLCD Land Cover Image

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Provenance

Revision 3.0 by Audra Griebel on February 29, 2024. To review the changes that were made, see "NLCD2019_RevisionHistory.txt" in attached files.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9KZCM54

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