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Shrubland

NLCD 2016 Shrub Component products characterize the percentage of each 30-meter pixel in the Western United States covered by shrub, herbaceous, bare ground, litter, sagebrush, big sagebrush and annual herbaceous, along with estimating shrub height and sagebrush height. These products have been produced by USGS in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management. Component products are designed to be used individually or combined together to support a broad variety of applications. (Read More)

USGS 2016 All Shrubland Fractional Components

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Bare Ground Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Big Sagebrush Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Annual Herbaceous Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Herbaceous Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Litter Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Sagebrush Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Sagebrush Height Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Shrub Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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USGS 2016 Shrub Height Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Shrubland fractional components now available!

Published May 15, 2019

The USGS in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management and other MRLC partners has produced additional NLCD products for Western U.S. shrubland areas. This suite of products contains nine components, with component values representing the proportion (fractional vegetation) of each 30 m pixel.

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Now Available

Published May 10, 2019

The NLCD 2016 suite of Conterminous U.S. (CONUS) land cover and impervious products have now been released. This release includes seven epochs of land cover (2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2016), a 2001 – 2016 land cover change index, and eight urban imperviousness datasets - a percent imperviousness and classified imperviousness for 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016. The NLCD 2016 products for trees, shrubs, and grasses will be released in the coming weeks.

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NLCD 2016 Design and Methodology Paper recently published and now available

Published Feb 28, 2018

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the past two decades: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011. These products provide spatially explicit and reliable information on the Nation’s land cover and land cover change.