Land Cover

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Geospatially tagged ground-based landscape photographs from across the United States. Images initially served as a research tool to aid Landsat-derived land-use/land-cover analyses and assessments (1999-2009).

The National Atlas of the United States products are specialized geospatial, geostatistical, and thematic maps for the United States in digital raster and/or vector format.

USGS DLG's are no longer available thru EarthExplorer as of April 8, 2025. Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) are digital vector representations of cartographic information derived from USGS maps and related sources.

Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000)

Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000) Overview

Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC) FAQ's

Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC) Background

A global land cover database primarily derived from 1992 to 1993 1-km AVHRR data.

Landscapes of West Africa: A Window on a Changing World is an atlas and unique dataset that uses time-series satellite image data and field-based photography to tell the story of wide-ranging land change across 17 countries. EROS scientists selected the years 1975, 2000 and 2013 to characterize the landscapes and create the product, which represents the broadest effort to map the region in history...

Scientists at EROS look at local and global drivers of land-use change to project how different scenarios will impact and change landscapes. Using the FOREcasting SCEnarios of Land-use Change (FORE-SCE) modeling framework provides spatially explicit projections of future land-use and land-cover change.