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National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2021 Impervious Products

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2001
End Date
2021

Citation

Dewitz, J., 2023, National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2021 Products: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9JZ7AO3.

Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has now developed and released seven National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2019, and 2021. Beginning with the 2016 release, land cover products were created for two-to-three-year intervals between 2001 and the most recent year. These products provide spatially explicit and reliable information on the Nation’s land cover and land cover change. NLCD continues to provide innovative, consistent, and robust methodologies for production of a multi-temporal land cover and land cover change database. The NLCD 2021 release is update based, so the Land Cover and Impervious Surface products released in 2019 are unchanged [...]

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
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
SDC Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

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nlcd_impervious_NGDACollectionRecord.xml
“Impervious Collection-level Metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		14.6 KB application/fgdc+xml
NLCD2019Impervious.jpg
“Reference Impervious image” 		thumbnail 217.18 KB image/jpeg

“Impervious descriptor zip file” 		610.05 MB application/x-zip-compressed

“Impervious zip file” 		1.14 GB application/x-zip-compressed

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.
Reference Impervious image
Reference Impervious image

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