Development of a 2001 National Land-Cover Database for the United States

Multi-Resolution Land Characterization 2001 (MRLC 2001) is a second-generation Federal consortium designed to create an updated pool of nation-wide Landsat 5 and 7 imagery and derive a second-generation National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2001). The objectives of this multi-layer, multi-source database are twofold: first, to provide consistent land cover for all 50 States, and second, to provide a data framework which allows flexibility in developing and applying each independent data component to a wide variety of other applications. Components in the database include the following: (1) normalized imagery for three time periods per path/row, (2) ancillary data, including a 30 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM)…

• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• UD
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• OO
  Office of Research and Development
• UG
  U.S. Geological Survey
• UF
  U.S. Forest Service