National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016 Land Cover Products

Dates

Publication Date: 2019-11-26
Start Date: 2001
End Date: 2016

Citation

Dewitz, J., 2019, National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016 Products (ver. 3.0, November 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96HHBIE.

Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the past two decades: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011. 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 2016. The NLCD 2016 design aims to provide innovative, consistent, and robust methodologies for production of a multi-temporal land cover and land cover change database from 2001 to 2016 at 2–3-year intervals. Comprehensive [...]

Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the past two decades: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011. 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 2016. The NLCD 2016 design aims to provide innovative, consistent, and robust methodologies for production of a multi-temporal land cover and land cover change database from 2001 to 2016 at 2–3-year intervals. Comprehensive research was conducted and resulted in developed strategies for NLCD 2016: a streamlined process for assembling and preprocessing Landsat imagery and geospatial ancillary datasets; a multi-source integrated training data development and decision-tree based land cover classifications; a temporally, spectrally, and spatially integrated land cover change analysis strategy; a hierarchical theme-based post-classification and integration protocol for generating land cover and change products; a continuous fields biophysical parameters modeling method; and an automated scripted operational system for the NLCD 2016 production. The performance of the developed strategies and methods were tested in twenty World Reference System-2 path/row throughout the conterminous U.S. An overall agreement ranging from 71% to 97% between land cover classification and reference data was achieved for all tested area and all years. Results from this study confirm the robustness of this comprehensive and highly automated procedure for NLCD 2016 operational mapping. Questions about the NLCD 2016 land cover product can be directed to the NLCD 2016 land cover mapping team at USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD (605) 594-6151 or mrlc@usgs.gov. See included spatial metadata for more details.

Contacts

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

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NLCD_2016_Land_Cover.xml “NLCD 2016 Summary Metadata” Original FGDC Metadata	View	35.31 KB	application/fgdc+xml
NLCD_2016_Land_Cover.jpg “NLCD Land Cover Image”		241.13 KB	image/jpeg
NLCD_Land_Cover_Change_Index_L48_20190424.zip “NLCD Land Cover Change Zip”		381.92 MB	application/zip
“NLCD 2013 Land Cover Zip”		1.35 GB	application/zip
“NLCD 2016 Land Cover Zip”		1.35 GB	application/zip
“NLCD 2004 Land Cover Zip”		1.33 GB	application/zip
“NLCD 2008 Land Cover Zip”		1.34 GB	application/zip
“NLCD 2006 Land Cover Zip”		1.34 GB	application/zip
“NLCD 2011 Land Cover Zip”		1.35 GB	application/zip
“NLCD 2001 Land Cover Zip”		1.32 GB	application/zip

Related External Resources

Type: Online Link

MRLC main page	https://www.mrlc.gov
MRLC data downloads	https://www.mrlc.gov/data
MRLC metadata via GetCapabilities	https://www.mrlc.gov/data-services-page

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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.

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