Data Services Page | Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium

The following MRLC datasets are published as map services. These map services are available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Serivce (WMS) services. The below links will provide the metadata about the service from the GetCapabilities request.

Using the MRLC OGC Services

The following links provide tutorials on how to add the MRLC WMS layers to the QGIS and ArcMap clients.

QGIS
ArcMap

Note: Use version 1.0.0 in the import settings when adding the WCS layer in ArcMap. No user name or password is needed.

MRLC OGC Services

All MRLC layers

All MRLC layers

Land Cover

NLCD Land Cover Change Index

NLCD 2021 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2019 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2016 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2013 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2011 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2008 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2006 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2004 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2001 CONUS Land Cover

NLCD 2011 to 2016 ALASKA Land Cover Change Pixels

NLCD 2001 to 2016 ALASKA Land Cover Change Pixels

NLCD 2001 to 2011 ALASKA Land Cover Change Pixels

NLCD 2016 ALASKA Land Cover

NLCD 2011 ALASKA Land Cover

NLCD 2001 ALASKA Land Cover

NLCD 2001 HAWAII Land Cover

NLCD 2001 PUERTO RICO Land Cover

Impervious

NLCD 2021 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2019 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2016 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2013 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2011 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2008 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2006 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2004 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2001 CONUS Impervious Surface

NLCD 2021 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2019 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2016 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2013 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2011 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2008 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2006 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2004 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2001 CONUS Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2011 to 2016 ALASKA Impervious Change Pixels

NLCD 2001 to 2016 ALASKA Impervious Change Pixels

NLCD 2001 to 2011 ALASKA Impervious Change Pixels

NLCD 2016 ALASKA Impervious Surface

NLCD 2011 ALASKA Impervious Surface

NLCD 2001 ALASKA Impervious Surface

NLCD 2016 ALASKA Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2011 ALASKA Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2001 ALASKA Impervious Descriptor

NLCD 2016 ALASKA Urban Descriptor

NLCD 2011 ALASKA Urban Descriptor

NLCD 2001 ALASKA Urban Descriptor

NLCD 2001 HAWAII Impervious Surface

NLCD 2001 PUERTO RICO Impervious Surface

Tree Canopy

NLCD ALASKA Tree Canopy Change

NLCD HAWAII Tree Canopy Change

NLCD PUERTO RICO Tree Canopy Change

NLCD 2021 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2020 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2019 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2018 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2017 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2016 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2015 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2014 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2013 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2012 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2011 CONUS Tree Canopy

NLCD 2016 ALASKA Tree Canopy

NLCD 2011 ALASKA Tree Canopy

NLCD 2016 HAWAII Tree Canopy

NLCD 2011 HAWAII Tree Canopy

NLCD 2016 PUERTO RICO Tree Canopy

NLCD 2011 PUERTO RICO Tree Canopy

RCMAP – Basemap (2016)

NLCD 2016 Annual Herb Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Bare Ground Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Big Sagebrush Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Herbaceous Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Litter Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Sagebrush Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Sagebrush Height Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Shrub Shrubland Fractional Component

NLCD 2016 Shrub Height Shrubland Fractional Component

RCMAP Time-Series

RCMAP Annual Herbaceous Cover

RCMAP Shrub Cover

RCMAP Litter Cover

RCMAP Sagebrush Cover

RCMAP Bare Ground Cover

RCMAP Herbaceous Cover

RCMAP Non-sagebrush Shrub Cover

RCMAP Perennial Herbaceous Cover

RCMAP Tree Cover

Science Research Products

NLCD Land Cover Change Disturbance Date

NLCD Forest Disturbance Date

NLCD Land Cover Change Count

NLCD Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes Change Index

NLCD 2021 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2019 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2016 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2013 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2011 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2008 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2006 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2004 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2001 Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes

NLCD 2021 Land Cover

NLCD 2021 Now Available

Published Jul 20, 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in association with the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, is pleased to announce the completion and release of the latest epoch of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for the conterminous U.S.—NLCD 2021. The MRLC, a consortium of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications, have been providing the scientific community with detailed land cover products for more than 30 years. Over that time, NLCD has been one of the most widely used geospatial datasets in the U.S., serving as a basis for understanding the Nation’s landscapes in thousands of studies and applications, trusted by scientists, land managers, students, city planners, and many more as a definitive source of U.S. land cover.

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RCMAP 1985-2021 Fractional Component Time-Series Now Available

Published Dec 01, 2022

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the MRLC consortium and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is pleased to announce the availability of a new generation of Rangeland, Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP) fractional component data spanning a 1985-2021 time-series. The new time-series includes yearly cover predictions for 9 components: shrub, sagebrush, non-sagebrush shrub, herbaceous, annual herbaceous, perennial herbaceous, litter, bare ground, and new to this version, tree cover. Trends statistics of the new time-series will be available by Jan 2023. Data are available for download and on the rangelands viewer. The new generation of data update previously released 1985-2020 RCMAP data and are not designed to be backwards compatible (1985-2020 cover predictions are different between versions). While users are encouraged to use the newest generation of data, the previous versions of the time-series data are archived.

Release of RCMAP Time-Series Trends Statistics

Release of RCMAP Time-Series Trends Statistics

Published Aug 02, 2021

RCMAP has released temporal trends for the 1985-2020 fractional component cover time-series. Temporal patterns in each RCMAP component were evaluated with two approaches, 1) linear trends and 2) a structural change method using a temporal moving window to detect “breaks” and “stable states” in pixel values. The structural change method partitions the time-series into segments of similar slope values, with statistically significant break-points indicating perturbations to the prior trajectory. We provide the following statistics: 1) for each component, each year, the presence/absence of breaks, 2) the slope, p-value, and standard error of the segment occurring in each year, 3) the overall model R2 (quality of model fit to the temporal profile), and 4) an index, Total Change Intensity, reflecting the total amount of change occurring across components in that pixel.

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