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National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 Land Cover Conterminous United States

The National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD2011) USFS percent tree canopy product was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium (www.mrlc.gov). The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies, consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, NASA, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. One of the primary goals of the project was to generate current, consistent, and seamless national land cover, percent tree canopy, and percent impervious cover at medium spatial resolution. This product is the cartographic version of the NLCD2011 percent tree canopy cover dataset for CONUS at medium spatial resolution (30 m). It was produced by the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC). Tree canopy values range from 0 to 100 percent. The analytic tree canopy layer was produced using a Random Forestsâ„¢ regression algorithm. The cartographic product is a filtered version of the regression algorithm output.

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Author(s) Jon Dewitz orcid
Publication Date 2020-02-21
Beginning Date of Data 2007-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2011-01-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P97S2IID
Citation Dewitz, J., 2020, National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 Land Cover Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P97S2IID.
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Metadata Date 2023-02-24
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