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NLCD Land Cover, New York, 2006

Identification Information
Citation
Originator
U.S. Geological Survey
Publication Date
20141010
Title
NLCD Land Cover, New York, 2006
Edition
2011 Edition, amended 2014
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
raster digital data
Series Information
Series Name
National Land Cover Database
Issue Identification
2006 Land Cover
Publication Information
Publication Place
Sioux Falls, SD
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Other Citation Details
References: (1) Homer, C., Huang, C., Yang, L., Wylie, B., Coan M., (2004). Development of a 2001 National Land Cover Database for the United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70, 829 - 840. (2) Nowak, D. J., Greenfield, E. J., (2010). Evaluating the National Land Cover Database tree canopy and impervious cover estimates across the conterminous United States: A comparison with photo-interpreted estimates. Environmental Management, 46, 378 - 390. (3) Wickham, J. D., Stehman S. V., Fry, J. A., Smith, J. H., Homer, C. G., (2010). Thematic accuracy of the NLCD 2001 land cover for the conterminous United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 1286 - 1296. (4) Xian, G., Homer, C., and Fry, J., (2009). Updating the 2001 National Land Cover Database land cover classification to 2006 by using Landsat imagery change detection methods. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 1133-1147. (5) Xian, G., and Homer C., (2010). Updating the 2001 National Land Cover Database impervious surface products to 2006 using Landsat imagery change detection methods. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 1676-1686. (6) Fry, J., Xian, G., Jin, S., Dewitz, J., Homer, C., Yang, L., Barnes, C., Herold, N., and Wickham, J., 2011. Completion of the 2006 National Land Cover Database for the Conterminous United States, PERS, Vol. 77(9):858-864. (7) Xian, G., Homer, C., Dewitz, J., Fry, J., Hossain, N., and Wickham, J., 2011. The change of impervious surface area between 2001 and 2006 in the conterminous United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 77(8): 758-762. (8) Wickham, J.D., Stehman, S.V., Gass, L., Dewitz, J., Fry, J.A., and Wade, T.G. 2013. Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2006 land cover and impervious surface, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 130, pp. 294-304. The USGS acknowledges the support of USGS and contractor NLCD 2006 Land Cover Mapping Teams in development of data for this map.
Online Linkage
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-009008
Online Linkage
http://www.mrlc.gov
Abstract
The National Land Cover Database products are created through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies (www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service (USDA-FS), the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Previously, NLCD consisted of three major data releases based on a 10-year cycle. These include a circa 1992 conterminous U.S. land cover dataset with one thematic layer (NLCD 1992), a circa 2001 50-state/Puerto Rico updated U.S. land cover database (NLCD 2001 2011 Edition) with three layers including thematic land cover, percent imperviousness, and percent tree canopy, and a 1992/2001 Land Cover Change Retrofit Product. With these national data layers, there is often a 5-year time lag between the image capture date and product release. In some areas, the land cover can undergo significant change during production time, resulting in products that may be perpetually out of date. To address these issues, this circa 2006 NLCD land cover product (NLCD 2006 2011 Edition) was conceived to meet user community needs for more frequent land cover monitoring (moving to a 5-year cycle) and to reduce the production time between image capture and product release. NLCD 2006 (2011 edition) is designed to provide the user both updated land cover data and additional information that can be used to identify the pattern, nature, and magnitude of changes occurring between 2001 (2011 Edition) and 2006 (2011 Edition) for the conterminous United States at medium spatial resolution. For NLCD 2006 (2011 Edition), there are 4 primary data products: 1) NLCD 2006 Land Cover (2011 Edition); 2) NLCD 2001/2006 Land Cover Change Pixels (2011 Edition) labeled with the 2006 land cover class; 3) NLCD 2006 Percent Developed Imperviousness (2011 Edition), and 4) NLCD 2001/2006 Percent Developed Imperviousness Change (2011 Edition). In addition, ancillary metadata includes the NLCD 2006 Path/Row Index vector file showing the footprint of Landsat scene pairs used to derive 2001/2006 spectral change with change pair acquisition dates included in the attribute table. As part of the NLCD 2011 project, NLCD 2001 data products have been revised and reissued (2011 Edition) to provide full compatibility with all other NLCD 2011 Edition products. The 2014 amended version corrects for the over-elimination of small areas of the four developed classes. Land cover maps, derivatives and all associated documents are considered "provisional" until a formal accuracy assessment can be conducted. The NLCD 2006 is created on a path/row basis and mosaicked to create a seamless national product. Questions about the NLCD 2006 land cover product can be directed to the NLCD 2006 land cover mapping team at the USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD (605) 594-6151 or mrlc@usgs.gov.
Purpose
The goal of this project is to provide the Nation with complete, current and consistent public domain information on its land use and land cover.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
ground condition
Time Instant
2006
Bounding Box
West
-80.035689
East
-70.516534
North
45.847801
South
40.086438
Theme Keyword
land cover
land use
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Theme Keyword
ImageryBaseMapeEarthCover
environment
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Category
Theme Keyword
landcover
environment
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
CUGIR Category
Place Keyword
New York
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
None
Status
In work
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Every 5 years
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
U.S. Geological Survey
Delivery Point
USGS EROS
Delivery Point
47914 252nd Street
City
Sioux Falls
State
SD
Postal Code
57198-0001
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
605/594-6151
Contact Facsimile Telephone
605/594-6589
Contact Electronic Mail Address
custserv@usgs.gov
Hours of Service
0800 - 1600 CT, M - F (-6h CST/-5h CDT GMT)
Credit
U.S. Geological Survey
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000
Data Quality Information
Attribute Accuracy Report
Data quality information for the NLCD 2001 re-issued base unchanged pixels is reported in the manuscript: Wickham, J., D., Stehman, S. V., Fry, J. A., Smith, J. H., Homer, C. G., (2010), Thematic accuracy of the NLCD 2001 land cover for the conterminous United States, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 1286 - 1296. Accuracy for the NLCD 2006 changed pixels is reported in the manuscript: Wickham, J.D., Stehman, S.V., Gass, L., Dewitz, J., Fry, J.A., and Wade, T.G. 2013. Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2006 land cover and impervious surface, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 130, pp. 294-304.
Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment
Logical Consistency Report
The NLCD 2006 final seamless products include: 1) NLCD 2006 Land Cover map (2011 Edition); 2) NLCD 2006 Percent Developed Imperviousness (2011 Edition) ; 3) NLCD 2001/2006 Change Pixels (2011 Edition) labeled with the 2006 land cover class; and 4) NLCD 2001/2006 Percent Developed Imperviousness Change (2011 Edition).
Completeness Report
This NLCD product is the version dated October 10, 2014.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
N/A
Lineage
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Raster
Raster Object Information
Raster Object Type
Grid Cell
Row Count
16989
Column Count
22610
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Planar
Map Projection
Map Projection Name
Albers Conical Equal Area
Albers Conical Equal Area
Standard Parallel
29.500000
Standard Parallel
45.500000
Longitude of Central Meridian
-96.000000
Latitude of Projection Origin
23.000000
False Easting
0.000000
False Northing
0.000000
Planar Coordinate Information
Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
row and column
Coordinate Representation
Abscissa Resolution
30.000000
Ordinate Resolution
30.000000
Planar Distance Units
meters
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257222
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
nlcd_2006_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10.img.vat
Entity Type Definition
NLCD Land Cover Layer
Entity Type Definition Source
National Land Cover Database
Attributes
Count
A nominal integer value that designates the number of pixels that have each value in the file; histogram column in ERDAS Imagine raster attributes table (Integer)
Definition Source
ESRI
Value
Land Cover Class Code Value.
11
Open Water - All areas of open water, generally with less than 25% cover or vegetation or soil
12
Perennial Ice/Snow - All areas characterized by a perennial cover of ice and/or snow, generally greater than 25% of total cover.
21
Developed, Open Space - Includes areas with a mixture of some constructed materials, but mostly vegetation in the form of lawn grasses. Impervious surfaces account for less than 20 percent of total cover. These areas most commonly include large-lot single-family housing units, parks, golf courses, and vegetation planted in developed settings for recreation, erosion control, or aesthetic purposes.
22
Developed, Low Intensity -Includes areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation. Impervious surfaces account for 20-49 percent of total cover. These areas most commonly include single-family housing units.
23
Developed, Medium Intensity - Includes areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation. Impervious surfaces account for 50-79 percent of the total cover. These areas most commonly include single-family housing units.
24
Developed, High Intensity - Includes highly developed areas where people reside or work in high numbers. Examples include apartment complexes, row houses and commercial/industrial. Impervious surfaces account for 80 to 100 percent of the total cover.
31
Barren Land (Rock/Sand/Clay) - Barren areas of bedrock, desert pavement, scarps, talus, slides, volcanic material, glacial debris, sand dunes, strip mines, gravel pits and other accumulations of earthen material. Generally, vegetation accounts for less than 15% of total cover.
41
Deciduous Forest - Areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. More than 75 percent of the tree species shed foliage simultaneously in response to seasonal change.
42
Evergreen Forest - Areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. More than 75 percent of the tree species maintain their leaves all year. Canopy is never without green foliage.
43
Mixed Forest - Areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. Neither deciduous nor evergreen species are greater than 75 percent of total tree cover.
51
Dwarf Scrub - Alaska only areas dominated by shrubs less than 20 centimeters tall with shrub canopy typically greater than 20% of total vegetation. This type is often co-associated with grasses, sedges, herbs, and non-vascular vegetation.
52
Shrub/Scrub - Areas dominated by shrubs; less than 5 meters tall with shrub canopy typically greater than 20% of total vegetation. This class includes true shrubs, young trees in an early successional stage or trees stunted from environmental conditions.
71
Grassland/Herbaceous - Areas dominated by grammanoid or herbaceous vegetation, generally greater than 80% of total vegetation. These areas are not subject to intensive management such as tilling, but can be utilized for grazing.
72
Sedge/Herbaceous - Alaska only areas dominated by sedges and forbs, generally greater than 80% of total vegetation. This type can occur with significant other grasses or other grass like plants, and includes sedge tundra, and sedge tussock tundra.
73
Lichens - Alaska only areas dominated by fruticose or foliose lichens generally greater than 80% of total vegetation.
74
Moss - Alaska only areas dominated by mosses, generally greater than 80% of total vegetation.
81
Pasture/Hay - Areas of grasses, legumes, or grass-legume mixtures planted for livestock grazing or the production of seed or hay crops, typically on a perennial cycle. Pasture/hay vegetation accounts for greater than 20 percent of total vegetation.
82
Cultivated Crops - Areas used for the production of annual crops, such as corn, soybeans, vegetables, tobacco, and cotton, and also perennial woody crops such as orchards and vineyards. Crop vegetation accounts for greater than 20 percent of total vegetation. This class also includes all land being actively tilled.
90
Woody Wetlands - Areas where forest or shrub land vegetation accounts for greater than 20 percent of vegetative cover and the soil or substrate is periodically saturated with or covered with water.
95
Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands - Areas where perennial herbaceous vegetation accounts for greater than 80 percent of vegetative cover and the soil or substrate is periodically saturated with or covered with water.
Definition Source
NLCD Legend Land Cover Class Descriptions
Red
Red color code for RGB. The value is arbitrarily assigned by the display software package, unless defined by user. (0 to 100 Percentage)
Definition Source
NLCD
Green
Green color code for RGB. The value is arbitrarily assigned by the display software package, unless defined by user. (0 to 100 Percentage)
Definition Source
NLCD
Blue
Blue color code for RGB. The value is arbitrarily assigned by the display software package, unless defined by user. (0 to 100 Percentage)
Definition Source
NLCD
Opacity
A measure of how opaque, or solid, a color is displayed in a layer. (0 to 100 Percentage)
Definition Source
NLCD
Entity and Attribute Overview
Land Cover Class RGB Color Value Table
Entity and Attribute Detail Citation
Attributes defined by USGS and ESRI. Value Red Green Blue 0 0.00000000000 0.00000000000 0.00000000000 11 0.27843137255 0.41960784314 0.62745098039 12 0.81960784314 0.86666666667 0.97647058824 21 0.86666666667 0.78823529412 0.78823529412 22 0.84705882353 0.57647058824 0.50980392157 23 0.92941176471 0.00000000000 0.00000000000 24 0.66666666667 0.00000000000 0.00000000000 31 0.69803921569 0.67843137255 0.63921568628 41 0.40784313726 0.66666666667 0.38823529412 42 0.10980392157 0.38823529412 0.18823529412 43 0.70980392157 0.78823529412 0.55686274510 51 0.64705882353 0.54901960784 0.18823529412 52 0.80000000000 0.72941176471 0.48627450980 71 0.88627450980 0.88627450980 0.75686274510 72 0.78823529412 0.78823529412 0.46666666667 73 0.60000000000 0.75686274510 0.27843137255 74 0.46666666667 0.67843137255 0.57647058824 81 0.85882352941 0.84705882353 0.23921568628 82 0.66666666667 0.43921568628 0.15686274510 90 0.72941176471 0.84705882353 0.91764705882 95 0.43921568628 0.63921568628 0.72941176471
Entity and Attribute Overview
N/A
Entity and Attribute Detail Citation
Attribute accuracy is described, where present, with each attribute defined in the Entity and Attribute Section.
Distribution Information
Format Name
ERDAS
Distributor
U.S. Geological Survey
Online Access
http://www.mrlc.gov
Name
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20190604
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Albert R. Mann Library
Contact Address
Address
Albert R. Mann Library
City
Ithaca
State or Province
New York
Postal Code
14853
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
607-255-5406
Contact Electronic Mail Address
mann-ref@cornell.edu
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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