Data | Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium

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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)

NLCD 2016 All Shrubland Fractional Components

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Bare Ground Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Big Sagebrush Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Annual Herbaceous Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Herbaceous Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Litter Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Sagebrush Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Sagebrush Height Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Shrub Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Shrub Height Shrubland Fractional Component

CONUS | 2016

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Updated NLCD 2016 Tree Canopy Cover Now Available

Published Jan 09, 2020

The US Forest Service, in collaboration with the MRLC consortium, is pleased to announce the release of the NLCD 2016 tree canopy cover. With this release, the 2011 and 2016 tree canopy products, along with a 2011 to 2016 change analysis product, are now available for download. These tree canopy products have values representing the percentage of canopy cover for each 30 m pixel in the conterminous U.S., coastal Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

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Updated NLCD 2016 Shrubland Fractional Components Now Available

Published Nov 18, 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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NLCD 2016 Science Research Products Now Available

Published Aug 05, 2019

In May, 2019, the USGS released a new generation of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) named NLCD 2016 for the conterminous U.S. As a follow-up to this, the USGS is now releasing three new “NLCD 2016 Science Research Products,” which represent intermediate products used in the generation of NLCD 2016 land cover. These three products include a change disturbance layer across the years 1986-2016, a disturbance date layer that relates to the current 2001 to 2016 NLCD land cover epochs, and a more comprehensive class delineation of shrub and grass classes.

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