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  "comment": "This dataset metadata was generated with the use of AI and reviewed by an expert. If you see any mistakes please file an issue on GitHub at https://github.com/earthcube/communityCollections/issues.",
  "@id": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/data/USGS:74edd739-1584-41c3-bf08-0274681a779b#dataset",
  "name": "North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) – North American Land Cover (30 m)",
  "description": "NALCMS provides harmonized, trinational land cover maps for North America by combining national land cover products from Canada, the United States, and Mexico into a consistent continental mosaic. A recent 30-meter North American land cover dataset reflects land cover information for 2020 from Mexico and Canada, 2019 over the conterminous United States, and 2021 over Alaska, using Landsat 8 imagery inputs and country-specific classification methods integrated into a seamless product.",
  "url": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/data/USGS%3A74edd739-1584-41c3-bf08-0274681a779b",
  "creator": [
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      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Natural Resources Canada"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Comisión Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR)"
    }
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    "name": "U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)",
    "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/"
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    "continental mosaic"
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      "name": "Land cover class",
      "temporalCoverage": "2019-01-01/2021-12-31",
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        "name": "North America (Canada, United States, Mexico)",
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        }
      },
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        "unitText": "m"
      }
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  ],
  "measurementTechnique": [
    "Landsat 8 remote sensing",
    "National land cover classification and continental integration/mosaicking"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
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      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "Land cover"
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    {
      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "Continental land monitoring"
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    {
      "@type": "CreativeWork",
      "name": "NALCMS: The North American Land Change Monitoring System",
      "datePublished": "2024",
      "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Commission for Environmental Cooperation"
      },
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    }
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