North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) – North American Land Cover (30 m)
type: Dataset
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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.
creator: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
creator: Natural Resources Canada
creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)
creator: Comisión Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
creator: Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR)
publisher: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
keywords: NALCMS
keywords: North America
keywords: land cover
keywords: land change
keywords: Landsat 8
keywords: continental mosaic
variable measured: Land cover class
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 2019-01-01/2021-12-31
  spatial coverage: North America (Canada, United States, Mexico)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -180,15 -50,85
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
measurement technique: Landsat 8 remote sensing
measurement technique: National land cover classification and continental integration/mosaicking
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
distribution: USGS Science Data Catalog landing page
  type: DataDownload
  description: Metadata landing page with access information for NALCMS products.
encoding format: image/tiff
encoding format: application=geotiff
encoding format: application/zip
is part of: catalog
about: Land cover
about: Continental land monitoring
citation: NALCMS: The North American Land Change Monitoring System
  type: CreativeWork
  date published: 2024
  publisher: Commission for Environmental Cooperation