Annual NLCD Land Cover Change
The Annual NLCD land cover change product represents annual land cover change between one product year and the next, with those changes represented in the latter year (e.g., differences in land cover between 1985 and 1986 are shown in the 1986 land cover change product). These differences are represented categorically in the product data by concatenating the before and after land cover class codes.
Strategies to reduce land cover change commission are harmonized with the land cover product, such that the land cover change product always represents the difference between land cover products, without any additional filtering. As such, this product can be independently derived by the user from successive land cover maps but is provided in the product suite as a convenience.
Annual NLCD Land Cover Change Legend
The classes below include examples of the land cover change. Classes 11-95 remain the same. A value of 9590 means emergent herbaceous wetlands to wood wetlands. Emergent herbaceous wetlands are class 95 and woody wetlands are class 90.
Land Cover classes only include those in CONUS.
Data Access
Products can be accessed via the data access page.
Documents
Additional information on Annual NLCD and Annual NLCD science products can be found in the Science Product User Guide
Annual NLCD Citation
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 you use the following citation below; however, it is not a requirement to use the data.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2024, Annual NLCD Collection 1.0 Science Products: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94UXNTS
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The Annual NLCD land cover change product represents annual land cover change between one product year and the next, with those changes represented in the latter year (e.g., differences in land cover between 1985 and 1986 are shown in the 1986 land cover change product). These differences are represented categorically in the product data by concatenating the before and after land cover class codes.
Strategies to reduce land cover change commission are harmonized with the land cover product, such that the land cover change product always represents the difference between land cover products, without any additional filtering. As such, this product can be independently derived by the user from successive land cover maps but is provided in the product suite as a convenience.
Annual NLCD Land Cover Change Legend
The classes below include examples of the land cover change. Classes 11-95 remain the same. A value of 9590 means emergent herbaceous wetlands to wood wetlands. Emergent herbaceous wetlands are class 95 and woody wetlands are class 90.
Land Cover classes only include those in CONUS.
Data Access
Products can be accessed via the data access page.
Documents
Additional information on Annual NLCD and Annual NLCD science products can be found in the Science Product User Guide
Annual NLCD Citation
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 you use the following citation below; however, it is not a requirement to use the data.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2024, Annual NLCD Collection 1.0 Science Products: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94UXNTS
Back to the Annual NLCD Product Suite page.