Explore 40 Years of Analysis-Ready Annual NLCD Land Cover

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A collection of six new Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products is now available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas. These 30-meter resolution layers, from the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium, offer a consistent, yearly snapshot of land cover use and change for the lower-48 states from 1985 to 2024:

• USA Annual NLCD – Land Cover
• USA Annual NLCD – Land Cover Change
• USA Annual NLCD – Land Cover Confidence
• USA Annual NLCD – Date Spectral Change
• USA Annual NLCD – Fractional Impervious Surface
• USA Annual NLCD – Impervious Descriptor

For full details about the new layers, visit this blog by the Living Atlas Environment Team.