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Northeast Land Cover

Map graphic of the northeast showing where land cover data was producedThe Northeast region contains both economically and ecologically diverse shorelines, such as Long Island Sound, Boston Harbor, and the Gulf of Maine. The region also contains over half a million acres of U.S. National Forests land, which includes Mount Washington, the highest mountain in northeastern North America, standing at 6,288-feet in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. These landscapes support a variety of habitats and thousands of species of plants and animals. All these environments contribute to the regional economy through tourism activities such as boating, fishing, skiing, and sight-seeing.

For this project, the NOAA Coastal Services Center created land cover and change data for the Northeast region, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, northern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia according to Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) standards.

Project Data:

Period

Northern Pennsylvania: 1996-2001

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland: 1996-2001-2005

Description

Land cover and land cover change data were produced for the U.S. Northeast region using 30-meter resolution Landsat Thematic Mapper and Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper satellite imagery.

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Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Other Available Regional Data

Complete information about the data-processing procedures can be found in the metadata file that accompanies the downloaded data.

This project was accomplished with the assistance of the State of Maine. Data for the Northeast states were produced by Sanborn.

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