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Land Cover Analysis

 

What is Land Cover?

Why Map Land Cover?

Nothing Brings the Big Picture into Focus like Remote Sensing

This Web site provides land cover mapping data, tools, and assistance to the coastal management community. The NOAA Coastal Services Center works with resource managers and mapping professionals to promote the use of land cover mapping to address coastal management issues.

  • C-CAP
    Discover NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP), which is dedicated to the development, distribution, and application of land cover and change data for the nation's coastal zone.
  • Data
    Land cover and change data organized by region.
  • Tools
    Download geographic information systems (GIS) software tools to enhance the use of C-CAP data.
  • Applications
    Put land cover and change data to work for you. Visit this section to learn more about how coastal resource management programs are using satellite-derived land cover and change data.
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    Learn basics about general remote sensing issues, appropriate uses, C-CAP data, change analyses, and technical aspects of data development.