On Long Island, land use includes the human activities and management practices for which land is used. Land cover is a mosaic of developed, forest, agriculture, and wetlands areas. Both land use and land cover are usually discussed in similar environments. The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive LANDSAT-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD provides spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of the land surface such as thematic class (for example, urban, agriculture, and forest), percent impervious surface, and percent tree canopy cover. The National Land Cover Database
Dominant covers across Long Island are developed, open space and forests, with locally dense urban development. More than half (53 percent) of the land cover area across Long Island in 2006 was developed, open space, low and medium-intensity categories (figures 5 - 6). About 10 percent is developed, high intensity, and Kings County attributes to about 60 percent of this category area within its political boundaries. About 3 percent of Long Islands area is cultivated crops or agricultural (Homer and others, 2011; Fry and others, 2011).
From the early 1900's, land cover on Long Island has trended toward the conversion of open space and agricultural land into residential, industrial, and commercial development.
The accompanying web sites are available showing the use of land on Long Island and were compiled from reports prepared by the Nassau County Planning Department, the Suffolk County Planning Department, and the New York City Department of Planning. Data for the four counties on Long Island are not available for precisely the same time. Furthermore, the three agencies did not use precisely the same land classifications. Despite these inconsistencies, however, the data shown are reasonably representative for the period designated as present “2005-2010", and provide considerable insight to the general characteristics of land use on Long Island at the present time (2014).
Suffolk and Nassau:
Long Island Land Use Interactive Map
New York City:
New York City Land Use Maps
New York City Land Use Tabular Data
Rauch Foundation reports:
Land Use in Nassau and Suffolk Counties
What Happens When We Run Out of Land?
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Table of Contents
State of the Aquifer, Long Island, New York - Introduction
- Precipitation
- NWIS - the USGS Data Archive
- Surface Water - Streamflow
- Groundwater Levels
- Water Table and Surface Maps
- Water Use
- Groundwater Budget
- Inflow to the Groundwater System
- Outflow from the Groundwater System
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Long Island Topography
Long Island Population
- Overview
On Long Island, land use includes the human activities and management practices for which land is used. Land cover is a mosaic of developed, forest, agriculture, and wetlands areas. Both land use and land cover are usually discussed in similar environments. The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive LANDSAT-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD provides spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of the land surface such as thematic class (for example, urban, agriculture, and forest), percent impervious surface, and percent tree canopy cover. The National Land Cover Database
Dominant covers across Long Island are developed, open space and forests, with locally dense urban development. More than half (53 percent) of the land cover area across Long Island in 2006 was developed, open space, low and medium-intensity categories (figures 5 - 6). About 10 percent is developed, high intensity, and Kings County attributes to about 60 percent of this category area within its political boundaries. About 3 percent of Long Islands area is cultivated crops or agricultural (Homer and others, 2011; Fry and others, 2011).
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Land use for Long Island, 2006(Public domain.)
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Land Cover on Long Island and Kings County 2006(Public domain.)
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Land cover on Long Island and Queens county 2006(Public domain.)
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Land cover on Long Island and Nassau county 2006(Public domain.)
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Land cover on Long Island and Suffolk county 2006(Public domain.)
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Land cover in square miles for Long Island counties - Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk(Public domain.)
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.Long Island Land Cover in sq. miles(Public domain.) From the early 1900's, land cover on Long Island has trended toward the conversion of open space and agricultural land into residential, industrial, and commercial development.
The accompanying web sites are available showing the use of land on Long Island and were compiled from reports prepared by the Nassau County Planning Department, the Suffolk County Planning Department, and the New York City Department of Planning. Data for the four counties on Long Island are not available for precisely the same time. Furthermore, the three agencies did not use precisely the same land classifications. Despite these inconsistencies, however, the data shown are reasonably representative for the period designated as present “2005-2010", and provide considerable insight to the general characteristics of land use on Long Island at the present time (2014).
Suffolk and Nassau:
Long Island Land Use Interactive Map
New York City:
New York City Land Use Maps
New York City Land Use Tabular DataRauch Foundation reports:
Land Use in Nassau and Suffolk Counties
What Happens When We Run Out of Land?_______________________________
Table of Contents
State of the Aquifer, Long Island, New York - Introduction
- Precipitation
- NWIS - the USGS Data Archive
- Surface Water - Streamflow
- Groundwater Levels
- Water Table and Surface Maps
- Water Use
- Groundwater Budget
- Inflow to the Groundwater System
- Outflow from the Groundwater System
- Science
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Long Island Topography
The present landforms of Long Island are the result of many geologic processes, some of which began many millions of years ago and some of which began only recently. Most of the major features of the present-day topography, however, are related to the last glaciation, which ended approximately 22,000 years ago.Long Island Population
About 7.56 million people lived on Long Island in 2010. Of these, about 2.50 million are in Kings County, 2.23 million in Queens County, 1.34 million in Nassau County, and 1.49 million in Suffolk County.