Assessments
Assessments
High temporal frequency land change mapping offers a new opportunity to better understand United States land cover and land use change processes on an annual basis. A greater understanding of these land dynamics that answers basic change questions allows other research into a myriad of environmental change issues to advance more completely in geographic and temporal scopes. Initial LCMAP regional-
LCMAP Assessment of Florida Phosphate Mining
LCMAP Assessment of Florida Phosphate Mining
This interactive story uses LCMAP products to provide an assessment of phosphate mining in the region of Florida known as Bone Valley, a region considered one of the most economically accessible phosphate deposits in the world.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 69 - Thirty Years of Land Change in the U.S.
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how the landscapes of the U.S. have changed since 1985.
LCMAP Validation Data Captures Impact of U.S. Economic Downturn
The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative focuses on the creation of annual map products and the application of those products to advance the understanding of land surface change for the scientific community, the land management community, and the general public. Both the map products and the work performed to validate them offer insight into the multitude of...