USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center scientists Heather Tollerud, Terry Sohl, Jennifer Rover and Jon Dewitz use the LCMAP Timeseries Analysis and Plotting Tool (TAPTool) during a November 2018 workshop on Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection in Sioux Falls, SD.
Jon Dewitz
Jon Dewitz is a Physical Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and is the USGS Program Coordinator and Integration lead for the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) project.
Jon has worked at EROS since 2000, with his first 8 years as a contractor. Jon spent the majority of his career creating Land Cover products. He led the modernization of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) through virtualization, scripting, and machine learning for the 2001 to 2021 production runs including prototyping and designing the NLCD processing systems for those years. Jon played a large part in all NLCD accuracy assessment strategies and data collection, as well as leading Impervious surface and Forest Canopy product creation. Jon has also conducted field work across Alaska and the conterminous United States and has trained and led field work teams for both.
Science and Products
Reference and Validation
The Annual NLCD Reference & Validation (R&V) is designed to support the development of consistent land cover and land cover change products and data. The R&V process involves collecting reference data to validate Anderson level II land cover classes and change products across the entire United States. The R&V gathers, organizes, and refines independent reference datasets for the US to generate...
Annual National Land Cover Database
Land cover is foundational information for land managers, scientists, and the general public. Many types of scientific studies have applied annual land cover information including projecting future land use, documenting forest fragmentation or conservation practices, modeling wildfire hazards, tracking water quality and quantity, and understanding change in wildlife habitat and ecosystem...
Multi-resolution Land Cover Characterization Consortium
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, established over 20 years ago, is a group representing multiple federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications.
National Land Cover Database
EROS is central to the creation of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) which stands as the definitive land cover database for the United States.
LANDFIRE-Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools
LANDFIRE (LF), a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), represents the first and only complete nationally consistent collection of more than 26 geospatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models.
National Land Cover Database Visualization and Information Tool
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive Landsat-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD supports a wide variety of Federal, State, local, and nongovernmental applications that seek to assess ecosystem status and health, understand the spatial patterns of biodiversity, predict effects of climate change, and develop land management...
USGS EROS Scientists at LCMAP workshop
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center scientists Heather Tollerud, Terry Sohl, Jennifer Rover and Jon Dewitz use the LCMAP Timeseries Analysis and Plotting Tool (TAPTool) during a November 2018 workshop on Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection in Sioux Falls, SD.
Science and Products
Reference and Validation
The Annual NLCD Reference & Validation (R&V) is designed to support the development of consistent land cover and land cover change products and data. The R&V process involves collecting reference data to validate Anderson level II land cover classes and change products across the entire United States. The R&V gathers, organizes, and refines independent reference datasets for the US to generate...
Annual National Land Cover Database
Land cover is foundational information for land managers, scientists, and the general public. Many types of scientific studies have applied annual land cover information including projecting future land use, documenting forest fragmentation or conservation practices, modeling wildfire hazards, tracking water quality and quantity, and understanding change in wildlife habitat and ecosystem...
Multi-resolution Land Cover Characterization Consortium
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, established over 20 years ago, is a group representing multiple federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications.
National Land Cover Database
EROS is central to the creation of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) which stands as the definitive land cover database for the United States.
LANDFIRE-Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools
LANDFIRE (LF), a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), represents the first and only complete nationally consistent collection of more than 26 geospatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models.
National Land Cover Database Visualization and Information Tool
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive Landsat-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD supports a wide variety of Federal, State, local, and nongovernmental applications that seek to assess ecosystem status and health, understand the spatial patterns of biodiversity, predict effects of climate change, and develop land management...
USGS EROS Scientists at LCMAP workshop
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center scientists Heather Tollerud, Terry Sohl, Jennifer Rover and Jon Dewitz use the LCMAP Timeseries Analysis and Plotting Tool (TAPTool) during a November 2018 workshop on Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection in Sioux Falls, SD.
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center scientists Heather Tollerud, Terry Sohl, Jennifer Rover and Jon Dewitz use the LCMAP Timeseries Analysis and Plotting Tool (TAPTool) during a November 2018 workshop on Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection in Sioux Falls, SD.
USGS Location
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