USGS EROS Archive – Land Cover – Annual NLCD Collection 1.2 Land Cover Confidence
The Annual NLCD Land Cover Confidence is the measure of confidence that the annual NLCD land cover label matches the training data.
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) project announces (June 30, 2026) the release of Annual NLCD Conterminous U.S. (CU), Collection 1.2. With this release, Collection 1.2 adds 2025 to the temporal extent for the 6 annual land cover products. The Annual NLCD products consist of 41 years of CU land cover dynamics.
Annual NLCD land cover confidence in the h04v01tile in the Northwest United States.
Annual NLCD land cover product generation strongly relies on supervised classification that is implemented with a series of deep learning models. The final result from the system is a discrete probability distribution across the output classes. The land cover confidence product provides the probability value for the final output land cover class. The index ranges from low (1) to high (100) model confidence.
Annual NLCD Collection 1.2 Product Suite products are processed to 30-meter resolution on an Albers Equal Area Conic (AEA) projection using the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) datum. Annual NLCD products are created as raster images stored as GeoTIFFs with accompanying metadata. The products delivered via EarthExplorer (EE) are Tiled products processed to a common tiling scheme of uniform dimensions bounded by static corner points in a defined grid system. Each tile contains 5,000 x 5,000 30-meter pixels.
Additional Information
- Annual National Land Cover Database
- Annual NLCD Science Product User Guide
- Annual NLCD Reference and Validation
- Accuracy Assessment Publication
Access Data
EarthExplorer (EE) can be used to search, preview, and download Annual NLCD Land Cover dataset. The collection is available under the Land Cover > Annual NLCD Product Suite category. The data provided via EE are Tiled products.
Annual NLCD Collection 1.2 Product Suite are also distributed by the MRLC Web Viewer, the MRLC Mosaic Download website, ScienceBase, as Annual NLCD web services, and through USGS AWS S3 (Oregon us-west-2 region). Each distribution site provides its own unique options for the products and services they provide.
Download Package
The download package is a zipfile containing all years per tile per product.
Example of zip bundle:
Tile: H21V15
Product = Land Cover
Years = 1985 to 2025 (41 years)
Files = .tif, .xml, and .aux.tif (3 files per tile per year)
Within zip bundle for tile H21V15 would be 123 files for Annual NLCD C1.2 Landcover.
Product Digital Object Identifier (DOI)#
Citation
Annual NLCD Product Suite Citation Information
Annual NLCD has no restrictions on the use of science products. Annual NLCD does ask that if you use the data as part of a publication or presentation that use the following citation below; however, it is not a requirement to use the data.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2024, Annual NLCD Collection 1 Science Products: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94UXNTS
The Annual NLCD Land Cover Confidence is the measure of confidence that the annual NLCD land cover label matches the training data.
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) project announces (June 30, 2026) the release of Annual NLCD Conterminous U.S. (CU), Collection 1.2. With this release, Collection 1.2 adds 2025 to the temporal extent for the 6 annual land cover products. The Annual NLCD products consist of 41 years of CU land cover dynamics.
Annual NLCD land cover confidence in the h04v01tile in the Northwest United States.
Annual NLCD land cover product generation strongly relies on supervised classification that is implemented with a series of deep learning models. The final result from the system is a discrete probability distribution across the output classes. The land cover confidence product provides the probability value for the final output land cover class. The index ranges from low (1) to high (100) model confidence.
Annual NLCD Collection 1.2 Product Suite products are processed to 30-meter resolution on an Albers Equal Area Conic (AEA) projection using the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) datum. Annual NLCD products are created as raster images stored as GeoTIFFs with accompanying metadata. The products delivered via EarthExplorer (EE) are Tiled products processed to a common tiling scheme of uniform dimensions bounded by static corner points in a defined grid system. Each tile contains 5,000 x 5,000 30-meter pixels.
Additional Information
- Annual National Land Cover Database
- Annual NLCD Science Product User Guide
- Annual NLCD Reference and Validation
- Accuracy Assessment Publication
Access Data
EarthExplorer (EE) can be used to search, preview, and download Annual NLCD Land Cover dataset. The collection is available under the Land Cover > Annual NLCD Product Suite category. The data provided via EE are Tiled products.
Annual NLCD Collection 1.2 Product Suite are also distributed by the MRLC Web Viewer, the MRLC Mosaic Download website, ScienceBase, as Annual NLCD web services, and through USGS AWS S3 (Oregon us-west-2 region). Each distribution site provides its own unique options for the products and services they provide.
Download Package
The download package is a zipfile containing all years per tile per product.
Example of zip bundle:
Tile: H21V15
Product = Land Cover
Years = 1985 to 2025 (41 years)
Files = .tif, .xml, and .aux.tif (3 files per tile per year)
Within zip bundle for tile H21V15 would be 123 files for Annual NLCD C1.2 Landcover.
Product Digital Object Identifier (DOI)#
Citation
Annual NLCD Product Suite Citation Information
Annual NLCD has no restrictions on the use of science products. Annual NLCD does ask that if you use the data as part of a publication or presentation that use the following citation below; however, it is not a requirement to use the data.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2024, Annual NLCD Collection 1 Science Products: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94UXNTS