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Projected Land Use Change for the Conterminous United States (National Assessment) Completed

By Climate Adaptation Science Centers December 31, 2008

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This project produced land use change change forecasts for the United States at the national scale, based on the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) 2001. Both urban and agricultural expansion were modeled at 300-meter resolution at ten-year intervals from 2010 to 2050.