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Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:06:53 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: mike furlough <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re:  New National Land Cover Dataset Now Available <fwd>
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Folks,

Does anyone happen to know if these CDs will be depository items?

mike


On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:56:24 -0400 Johnnie Sutherland
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> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:41:42 -0700
> From: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fw: New National Land Cover Dataset Now Available
> Sender: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>
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> FYI -- the Eastern half of the US is done, with the rest due in 6 months...
>
> > NEWS RELEASE
> >
> >
> > U.S. Department of the Interior
> > U.S. Geological Survey
> > 119 National Center
> > Reston VA, 20192
> >
> > Contact:  Karen Wood, 703-648-4447, [log in to unmask]
> >        Nick Van Driel, 605-594-6007, [log in to unmask]
> >
> > For release:  October 4, 2000
> >
> >
> > New National Land Cover Dataset Now Available
> >
> >
> >
> > The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection
> >
> > Agency (EPA) have teamed up to compile the first seamless National Land
> >
> > Cover Dataset (NLCD) using satellite imagery for the conterminous United
> >
> > States.  At 30-meter resolution, the NLCD is the most detailed land cover
> >
> > information ever compiled at a national level. The new CD-ROMs include
> data
> >
> > for the states east of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.  Data for the
> >
> > remaining states will be available within the next six months.
> >
> > The first eight CD's of a planned 31-volume disc set contains 21
> categories
> > of land cover information across the lower 48 states.  These data are used
> > in a variety of national and regional applications, including watershed
> > management, environmental inventories, transportation modeling and land
> > management.
> >
> > "Many federal, state, and local agencies rely on land cover data in making
> > critical decisions related to managing natural resources," said USGS
> > associate director for geography Barbara Ryan.  "Land cover has changed
> > considerably since the last data set was developed in the 1970's, and it's
> > important to provide resource managers with the most up-to-date
> information
> > available."
> >
> > The release of the CD's is the culmination of a five-year effort by the
> > USGS, EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the
> U.S.
> > Forest Service to purchase and analyze the necessary Landsat satellite
> > Thematic Mapper imagery used in the NLCD.   Scientists at the USGS used a
> > variety of supporting information in addition to the satellite data,
> > including topography, census, agricultural statistics, soil
> > characteristics, other land cover maps, and wetlands data to determine and
> > label the land cover type for each 30-meter pixel. This imagery database
> is
> > also being used by the partner organizations for their own programs.
> >
> > The NLCD was designed to be compatible with the earlier Land Use/Land
> Cover
> > data set compiled from 1970's and 1980's aerial photography.  The data
> from
> > these two time periods provide an opportunity to investigate the land
> cover
> > change in the United States over the last 30 years.  The experience gained
> > from this mapping effort will be used to improve the next-generation
> > national land cover data set, which will use Landsat-7 data collected over
> > the next three years.
> >
> > The CD-ROMs can be ordered from Customer Services at the USGS EROS Data
> > Center (605-594-6151; email [log in to unmask]; FAX
> > 605-594-6589), contact any other USGS Earth Science Information Center or
> > order online from this address:
> > http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/programs/lccp/mrlcreg.html.   For more
> > information about the NLCD and the USGS Land Cover Characterization
> > Program, please visit: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/programs/lccp
> >
> >
> > As the Nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian
> > mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2,000
> > organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial scientific
> > information to resource managers, planners and other customers. This
> > information is gathered in every state by USGS scientists to minimize the
> > loss of life and property from natural disasters, to contribute to the
> > sound conservation and economic and physical development of the Nation's
> > natural resources, and to enhance the quality of life by monitoring water,
> > biological, energy, and mineral resources.
> >
> >                              * * * USGS * * *
> >
> > In-depth information about USGS programs may be found on the USGS home
> page
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> send
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Mike Furlough
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
University of Virginia Library
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu
(804) 924-3169

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