land surface dataThe U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released the latest edition of its National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2011), the nation's most comprehensive look at land surface conditions. The database divides the lower 48 states into 9 billion geographic cells, providing consistent ...
This function retrieves the landcover data from the Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base Version 2.0, specifically from the file with 30-arcsecond resolution geographic projection, i.e. the file gusgs2_0ll.img. A lat/lon window can be specified by the user, meaning that MatLab does ...
(USGS) National Land Cover Database (NLCD) is widely used for environmental mapping and modeling (Homer et al., 2007). The land cover types classified in the NLCD are general classes such as deciduous forest, grassland, and cultivated cropland. However, more specific land cover classes such...
dynamics of land cover and land use as a coupled human- environment system, and develop new concepts, approaches, and tools for improved understanding and management of land resources (Turner et al., 2007). National Land Cover Database (NLCD) ...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 2001 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) was compared to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2002 Census of Agriculture. We compared areal estimates for cropland at the state and county level for 14 States in the Upper Midwest region of the United...