National Land Cover Database 2019 (NLCD2019) Statistics for 2008 | Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium

NLCD 2019 Pie Chart for 2008

A generalized summary of the main NLCD2019 land cover classes for the conterminous United States (Note: Some NLCD2019 land cover classes have been grouped for display purposes. A detailed conterminous United States class proportions are described in the table below).

2008 Land Cover Class for the conterminous United States

Percentage

11. Water

5.25

12. Perennial Ice Snow

0.01

21. Developed, Open Space

2.70

22. Developed, Low Intensity

1.67

23. Developed, Medium Intensity

0.89

24. Developed High Intensity

0.32

31. Bare Rock/Sand/Clay

1.00

41. Deciduous Forest

9.33

42. Evergreen Forest

11.51

43. Mixed Forest

3.37

52. Shrub/Scrub

21.75

71. Grasslands/Herbaceous

13.82

81. Pasture/Hay

6.51

82. Cultivated Crops

15.88

90. Woody Wetlands

4.43

95. Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands

1.56

Total

100.00%

A detailed description of all NLCD2019 land cover class proportions across the conterminous United States. Note: This table is for illustrative purposes only, we encourage you to download the most recent NLCD2019 data file to complete detailed land cover analysis.

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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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Enhanced Visualization and Analysis (EVA) Tool Now Available

Published Mar 25, 2021

The MRLC Consortium, in collaboration with NOAA and the USGS, is pleased to release version 2 of the Enhanced Visualization and Analysis (EVA) tool. This tool provides users with detailed county statistics for any two NLCD landcover dates to support quick and powerful change analyses. This tool was originally developed by NOAA and shared through the consortium with custom adaptations for NLCD.

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