Land Cover

Land Cover

USGS land use on the GEMS Grid

Description

This API enables exploration of land cover data for the conterminous United States. Currently 3 products are offered: Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP), The National Land Cover Database (NLCD), and Cropland Data Layer (CDL) for Minnesota. These products help characterize land cover and land cover change spatially and temporally in a systematic and consistent way to support a variety of research objectives focused on natural and human-made systems across the United States.

API Product Region Release date GEMS Grid Level Period
Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection - Primary Land Cover (LCPRI) CONUS 2022-09-16 Level 5 (~ 10m) 1985 – 2020, at annual time step
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) CONUS 2022-09-16 Level 5 (~ 10m) 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2019
Cropland Data Layer (CDL) - crop-specific land cover data layer created annually for Minnesota CONUS N/A Level 4 (~ 100m) 2008 - 2023
Predicted CDL CONUS N/A Level 4 (~ 100m) 2024