National Land Cover Database

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Land use map in the USA, 2011
  • Open sea
  • Eternal ice
  • Settlement area: open space
  • Low intensity settlement area
  • Medium-intensity settlement area
  • High intensity settlement area
  • wasteland
  • Deciduous forest
  • Coniferous forest
  • Mixed forest
  • bushes
  • prairie
  • Farmland
  • Moors & swamps with trees
  • Bogs and swamps with herbaceous vegetation
  • Pastureland

    • The National Land Cover Database is an American Floor Covering database that from consisting of several federal Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics is published consortium. The most recent version is from 2011 (NLCD2011).

    The National Land Cover Database is based on Landsat satellite images and classifies the surface into 16 different land use forms.

    See also

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ The National Land Cover Database
    2. ↑ James Wickham, Collin Homer, James Vogelmann, Alexa McKerrow, Rick Mueller, Nate Herold, John Coulston: The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium - 20 Years of Development and Integration of USA National Land Cover Data . In: Remote Sensing . tape 6 , no. 8 , August 2014, p. 7424 , doi : 10.3390 / rs6087424 (English).