National Land Cover Database

View and Order Available MRLC Scenes through GloVis

You can download MRLC Terrain Corrected Dataset through the GloVis website. Use the following instructions for downloading free MRLC Terrain Corrected Landsat imagery

-Navigate to the USGS GloVis website at http://glovis.usgs.gov/
-Click on the map, somewhere in the United States (a separate visualization viewer will open)

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-Under the SENSOR option (top left) reset to MRLC 2001 TC
-Navigate to the path/row and date you require, and select it in the yellow box.
-Once selected (will appear in green box), click the ADD button in the lower left.
-Scene can now be downloaded using the DOWNLOAD button in the lower left

GloVis image


It may take few minutes to download this tarred (zipped) file depending on your Internet connection.

GloVis image


For more information about the file type (NZT) and how to ingest it, go to the following link at http://landcover.usgs.gov/pdf/image_preprocessing.pdf

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