The impervious descriptor is an accompanying product to the impervious estimate. It contains a label for each percent impervious estimate of road type, urban area type, and energy production sites. These are meant to provide additional information to the impervious estimates by allowing distinction or separation of these different types of impervious and developed usage.
Published Apr 15, 2020
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the MRLC consortium has released a new generation of National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products for Alaska. The 2016 Alaska Landcover includes new impervious and developed features across the state as well as updated change information products for all years. Alaska tree canopy products for the state were previously released by the U.S. Forest Service. All land cover, imperviousness and tree canopy products are now available for download here.
Published Mar 05, 2020
A new paper entitled, "Conterminous United States Land Cover Change Patterns 2001-2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database," has just been published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. This paper describes the production and land change results from NLCD 2016 land cover products, and will serve as the primary citation for these products.
Published Feb 27, 2020
The North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) is a collaborative effort by the U.S., Mexico, and Canada to provide land cover change information for the North American continent. NALCMS has just released a new land cover product which depicts 19 classes of land cover across North America for the year 2015 at 30-meter spatial resolution. The new release represents the third product iteration, with earlier NALCMS products released for 2010 and 2005.