{"id":2016,"date":"2007-03-19T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=261"},"modified":"2007-03-19T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T23:28:00","slug":"usgs-land-cover-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/usgs-land-cover-database.html","title":{"rendered":"USGS Land Cover Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not at the &#8220;web-based, jump in &#8211; the water&#8217;s fine&#8221; stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\">United States Geologic Service<\/a> (USGS) has developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrlc.gov\/mrlc2k_nlcd.asp\">National Land Cover Database<\/a> from 2001 LandSat imagery.<\/p>\n<p>This information provides very detailed (98ft square) information on every piece of land in the lower 48 states.  If you have an interest in this, and don&#8217;t mind working with database information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/newsroom\/article.asp?ID=1633&amp;from=rss\">check out their web site<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2007\/03\/20\/land-cover-database-details-state-of-the-land-lower-48-described-with-census-like-accuracy\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not at the &#8220;web-based, jump in &#8211; the water&#8217;s fine&#8221; stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the United States Geologic Service (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Database from 2001 LandSat imagery. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/usgs-land-cover-database.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2935,2946,2951,2967],"tags":[3358],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-maps","category-online-databases","category-space","tag-united-states-geologic-service"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}