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NLCD Land Cover, New York, 2016
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Publication Date
- 201901
- Title
- NLCD Land Cover, New York, 2016
- Edition
- 2016
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- raster digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- National Land Cover Database
- Issue Identification
- 2016 Land Cover
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Other Citation Details
- References: Yang, L., et al. (2018). "A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 146: 108-123.
- Online Linkage
- https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-009031
- Online Linkage
- https://doi.org/10.5066/P937PN4Z
- Online Linkage
- https://www.mrlc.gov/data
- Online Linkage
- https://www.mrlc.gov/data-services-page
- Abstract
- The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the past two decades: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011. These products provide spatially explicit and reliable information on the Nation’s land cover and land cover change. To continue the legacy of NLCD and further establish a long-term monitoring capability for the Nation’s land resources, the USGS has designed a new generation of NLCD products named NLCD 2016. The NLCD 2016 design aims to provide innovative, consistent, and robust methodologies for production of a multi-temporal land cover and land cover change database from 2001 to 2016 at 2–3-year intervals. Comprehensive research was conducted and resulted in developed strategies for NLCD 2016: a streamlined process for assembling and preprocessing Landsat imagery and geospatial ancillary datasets; a multi-source integrated training data development and decision-tree based land cover classifications; a temporally, spectrally, and spatially integrated land cover change analysis strategy; a hierarchical theme-based post-classification and integration protocol for generating land cover and change products; a continuous fields biophysical parameters modeling method; and an automated scripted operational system for the NLCD 2016 production. The performance of the developed strategies and methods were tested in twenty World Reference System-2 path/row throughout the conterminous U.S. An overall agreement ranging from 71% to 97% between land cover classification and reference data was achieved for all tested area and all years. Results from this study confirm the robustness of this comprehensive and highly automated procedure for NLCD 2016 operational mapping. Questions about the NLCD 2016 land cover product can be directed to the NLCD 2016 land cover mapping team at USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD (605) 594-6151 or mrlc@usgs.gov. See included spatial metadata for more details.
- 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
- 2016
- Bounding Box
- West
- -80.035674
- East
- -70.516586
- North
- 45.847774
- South
- 40.086452
- Theme Keyword
- Land cover
- Land use
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- ImageryBaseMapEarthCover
- 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 2-3 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 Electronic Mail Address
- custserv@usgs.gov
- Credit
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows 10; ESRI ArcCatalog 10.5.1
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- A formal accuracy assessment has not been conducted for NLCD 2016 Land Cover, NLCD 2016 Land Cover Change, or NLCD 2016 Impervious Surface products.
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment
- Logical Consistency Report
- The NLCD 2016 final seamless products include: 1) NLCD 2016 Land Cover; 2) NLCD 2016 Impervious Surface; 3) NLCD 2016 Land Cover Change Index.
- Completeness Report
- This NLCD product is the version dated January, 2019.
- 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
- 29.5
- Standard Parallel
- 45.5
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- -96.0
- Latitude of Projection Origin
- 23.0
- False Easting
- 0.0
- False Northing
- 0.0
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- row and column
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 30.0
- Ordinate Resolution
- 30.0
- Planar Distance Units
- meters
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid Name
- Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.0
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257222
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- None
- Entity Type Definition
- NLCD Land Cover Layer
- Entity Type Definition Source
- National Land Cover Database
- Attributes
- ObjectID
- Internal feature number (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- 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
- GeoTIFF
- Format Name
- metadata
- Format Name
- HTML metadata
- Format Name
- OGC:WMS
- Distributor
- Albert R. Mann Library
- Online Access
- https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/90/31/cugir-009031.zip
- Online Access
- https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/90/31/fgdc.xml
- Online Access
- https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/90/31/fgdc.html
- Online Access
- https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wms?version=1.1.0request=GetMaplayers=cugir009031bbox=-80.32124664,39.91361234,-70.23101336,46.02061366width=256height=154srs=EPSG:4326format=image/png
- Name
- Name
- Name
- Name
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- ERDAS
- Distributor
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Online Access
- https://www.mrlc.gov
- Name
- Name
- Name
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20190607
- 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