NLCD Land Cover Explorer - quickstart guide
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) has long been the standard for land cover mapping in the United States. This year, the USGS announced a major advancement in land cover mapping with the release of the Annual NLCD products. Harnessing the full Landsat data record, Annual NLCD provides a scientific suite of land cover data from 1985 to present. The data products are the result of a confluence of methodologies from past land cover projects together with modern innovations in geospatial deep learning technologies to create the next generation of land cover and land change information.
Esri and the ArcGIS Living Atlas team are providing accessibility to this data in the form of a ready-to-use imagery layer and a web mapping application, the NLCD Land Cover Explorer. Change analysis is essential to deriving information from a land cover time series. One of the foremost capabilities of this app is dynamic change analysis, providing dynamic visual and statistical change across annual slices of the NLCD Land Cover data archive.
To read the full guide, visit this blog by @RobertWaterman.
