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USGS Announces Next Generation Of Land Cover (NLCD) And Change Products
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https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/lcmap/news/usgs-announces-next-generation-land-cover-and-change-products <-- shared link to USGS details
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“Exciting news for NLCD users! [The USGS EROS] are working hard to bring you a major update: Annual NLCD. Coming this fall, annual land cover products will be released for the conterminous United States from 1985 to 2023. This game-changing resource will open up countless possibilities for change assessments and provide new insights into environmental monitoring, resource management, and urban planning…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #opendata #remotesensing #dataresource #annual #NLCD #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NationalLandCoverDataset #landcover #CONUS #USA #resourcemanagement #urbanplanning #farming #agriculture #environment #landtype #vegetation #forest #USGS #EROS
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The USGS is excited to announce the development of the next generation of land cover and change products.

A little sample of our 7 million plus #herbarium specimens at Kew & a reminder that #botany is beautiful - in the preserved collection, as well as in the field
As well as our core support for #Taxonomy #Traits #Conservation research & #PlantHumanities many of the research questions to apply to this global #DataResource may be things we've not even considered yet...
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