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Annual NLCD

Annual National Land Cover Database. Yearly 30 m land cover for the conterminous United States.

Annual land cover, land-cover change, impervious surface and spectral change products from Landsat, in the NLCD 16-class legend. The impervious surface layer is a common input for urban runoff models.

Source
U.S. Geological Survey
Resolution
30 m
Data type
Raster
Time span
1985–2024
Temporal
Annual
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
Coverage
Conterminous United States (-125, 24, -66, 50)
Licence
Public domain (U.S. Government work)
Provider page
www.mrlc.gov/data

Access

linkMRLC data downloads

https://www.mrlc.gov/data

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/annual-nlcd/links?bbox=-96.5,36,-94.5,38" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

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