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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 2016 updates all previously released versions of impervious products for CONUS (NLCD 2001, NLCD 2006, NLCD 2011) along with a new date of impervious surface for 2016. New for NLCD 2016 is an impervious surface descriptor layer. This descriptor layer identifies types of roads, core urban areas, and energy production sites for each impervious pixel to allow deeper analysis of developed features. No new imperviousness products for Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are available from NLCD 2016. (Read More)

NLCD Imperviousness (CONUS) All Years

CONUS | 2016, 2011, 2006, 2001

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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 2011 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2011

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NLCD 2011 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2011

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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 2001 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2001

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NLCD 2001 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2001

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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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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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