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Use the interface below to filter and download available NLCD products. Click (here) for NLCD Science Research Products which offer more comprehensive delineation of shrub and grass classes and information about change disturbance. For access to dynamic MRLC viewer applications and tools, click (here).

Urban Imperviousness

NLCD imperviousness products represent urban impervious surfaces as a percentage of developed surface over every 30-meter pixel in the United States. NLCD 2019 updates all previously released versions of impervious products for CONUS and provides integrated analysis for all Land Cover dates. It also includes a matching impervious surface descriptor layer. This descriptor layer identifies types of roads, wind tower sites, building locations, and energy production sites to allow a deeper analysis of developed features. No new imperviousness products for Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are available from NLCD 2019. (Read More)

NLCD Imperviousness (CONUS) All Years

CONUS | 2019, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2001

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NLCD 2019 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2019

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NLCD 2019 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2019

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NLCD 2016 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Percent Developed Imperviousness Zone 8 (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Developed Impervious Descriptor Zone 8 (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Developed Urban Descriptor (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2016

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NLCD 2013 Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2013

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NLCD 2013 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2013

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NLCD 2011 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2011

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NLCD 2011 Percent Developed Imperviousness Zone 8 (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2011

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NLCD 2011 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2011

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NLCD 2011 to 2016 Developed Imperviousness Zone 8 Change (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2011, 2016

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NLCD 2011 Developed Impervious Descriptor Zone 8 (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2011

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NLCD 2011 Developed Urban Descriptor (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2011

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NLCD 2008 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2008

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NLCD 2008 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2008

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NLCD 2006 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2006

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NLCD 2006 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2006

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NLCD 2004 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2004

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NLCD 2004 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2004

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NLCD 2001 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2001

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NLCD 2001 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2001

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NLCD 2001 to 2011 Developed Imperviousness Zone 8 Change (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2001, 2011

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NLCD 2001 Percent Developed Imperviousness Zone 8 (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2001

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NLCD 2001 Percent Developed Impervious (HAWAII)

Islands & Territories | 2001

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NLCD 2001 Percent Developed Imperviousness (PUERTO RICO)

Islands & Territories | 2001

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NLCD 2001 to 2016 Developed Imperviousness Zone 8 Change (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2001, 2016

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NLCD 2001 Developed Impervious Descriptor Zone 8 (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2001

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NLCD 2001 Developed Urban Descriptor (ALASKA)

Alaska | 2001

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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.

NLCD 2019 Land Cover

NLCD 2019 Products Now Available

Published Jun 03, 2021

The NLCD 2019 suite of Conterminous U.S. (CONUS) land cover and impervious products have now been released. This release includes eight epochs of land cover (2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2019), a 2001 – 2019 land cover change index, and sixteen urban imperviousness datasets - a percent imperviousness and classified imperviousness matching all years of land cover . The NLCD 2019 and 2021 products for tree canopy cover will be released in the next year. RCMAP rangeland fractional component data including a 1985-2020 time-series, projections of future component cover through the 2080s, and Ecological Potential component cover are also currently available.

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Release of a New Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP) Time-Series Spanning 1985-2020

Published Jun 04, 2021

A new generation of RCMAP fractional component time-series data spanning 1985-2020 are now available for download and on the rangelands viewer. Relative to the prior generation, several key improvements are 1) additional components: perennial herbaceous and non-sagebrush shrub, 2) addition of all available BLM AIM data as training, 3) improved change detection, and 4) better imagery compositing. These factors have led to a ~15% increase in independent accuracy. Additionally, we produce error maps for each component, which reflect model uncertainty. Trends analysis products of the 1985-2020 time-series using both linear and structural change (breaks and stable states) methods will be available by July 2021. While users are encouraged to use the new generation of data, the previous version of the time-series data is archived.

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