Visualizing Land Cover with MRLC Tools

This video is a recording of a previous webinar entitled: “Visualizing Land Cover with MRLC Tools”. This webinar was recorded on January 20, 2026. 

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center maintains one of the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface. At EROS we study land change and produce land change data products used by researchers, resource managers, and policy makers across the nation and around the world. The EROS User Services team provides assistance and outreach to help users in the data community access and work with data distributed from EROS. As part of the outreach effort, the EROS User Services team provides the EROS User Experience webinar series, where we talk to staff at EROS to learn more about the data, tools, and services provided by the USGS EROS. This webinar on the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) tools was part of that series.

The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium offers powerful tools for accessing and analyzing land cover data from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD). During this webinar you will learn about two key MRLC tools – the MRLC NLCD Viewer and the Enhanced Visualization and Analysis (EVA). These tools support visualization, analysis, and data downloads. Demonstrations of the MRLC Viewer and EVA tool will be provided, showcasing how to use the tools to explore Annual NLCD products, visualize land cover and land cover change, request custom downloads, and how to generate county-level land cover change statistics between selected years. We closed the webinar with a question-and-answer session for anything related to Annual NLCD data, or the tools used to access, process, and download the data.   

Additional information and links related to this webinar:     

• The MRLC Website
• The MRLC Viewer
• The EVA Tool
• MRLC Direct Download Page
• EarthExplorer (EE)
• ScienceBase
• AWS Cloud Storage
• Annual NLCD FAQs
• Previously recorded webinar on Annual NLCD data
• Annual NLCD Science Product User Guide
• Annual NLCD Reference and Validation
• Annual NLCD Characteristics, Constraints, and Cavets
• Join the MRLC listserv to receive emails about future Annual NLCD data releases. 

 Join the EROS User Group and to sign up to be notified of future webinars in this series please visit: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/eros-user-group