Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Collection 1.1 Annual Land Cover and Land Cover Change Validation Data (1985–2018) for the Conterminous United States

A validation assessment of Land Cover Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Collection 1.1 annual land cover products (1985–2019) for the Conterminous United States was conducted with an independently collected reference data set. Reference data land cover attributes were assigned by trained interpreters for each year of the time series (1984–2018) to a reference sample of 24,971 randomly-selected Landsat resolution (30m x 30m) pixels. The LCMAP and reference dataset labels for each pixel location are recorded for each year, 1985–2018. LCMAP Version 1.0 annual land cover products covered years 1985–2017 and the validation of the Version 1.0 products were reported in the LCMAP Version 1.0 Annual Land Cover and...

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