Legacy National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Products
type: Dataset
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description: Legacy NLCD products provide nationwide (United States) land cover and land cover change datasets at 30-meter resolution using a 16-class legend based on a modified Anderson Level II classification system. The legacy product suite supports cyclical updates of U.S. land cover and change, enabling monitoring and long-term trend assessments across many application areas (e.g., hydrology, environmental planning, risk analysis, education, and land management).
creator: MRLC Consortium / U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
publisher: Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium
keywords: NLCD
keywords: legacy NLCD
keywords: land cover
keywords: land change
keywords: tree canopy
keywords: impervious surface
keywords: remote sensing
keywords: Landsat
variable measured: Land cover class (16-class legend)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: Static
  spatial coverage: United States (nationwide coverage; includes Alaska, Hawaii, and other U.S. territories depending on product)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -180,15 -50,72
  temporal resolution: Static
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Land cover change (varies by product)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: Static
  spatial coverage: United States (nationwide coverage; includes Alaska, Hawaii, and other U.S. territories depending on product)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -180,15 -50,72
  temporal resolution: Static
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Percent impervious surface (selected releases)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: Static
  spatial coverage: United States (nationwide coverage; includes Alaska, Hawaii, and other U.S. territories depending on product)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -180,15 -50,72
  temporal resolution: Static
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Tree canopy cover (selected releases)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: Static
  spatial coverage: United States (nationwide coverage; includes Alaska, Hawaii, and other U.S. territories depending on product)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -180,15 -50,72
  temporal resolution: Static
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
measurement technique: Landsat remote sensing
measurement technique: Land cover classification and change mapping (varies by release year/version)
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
citation: Dewitz, J., and U.S. Geological Survey, 2021, National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2019 Products (ver. 2.0, June 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KZCM54
distribution: MRLC Legacy NLCD landing page
  type: DataDownload
  description: MRLC landing page for browsing and accessing legacy NLCD products.
distribution: MRLC Viewer (custom downloads for NLCD)
  type: DataDownload
  description: Interactive visualization and custom extent downloads for NLCD-related products.
encoding format: image/tiff
encoding format: application=geotiff
encoding format: application/zip
is part of: catalog
about: Land cover
about: Land change
about: Remote sensing

PropertyValue
property ID: doi
value: 10.5066/P9KZCM54