The geographic face of the nation--land cover : land cover of the conterminous United States, 1992 / U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.

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The geographic face of the nation--land cover : land cover of the conterminous United States, 1992 / U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.

Geological Survey (U.S.)

OTHER TITLES
Land cover of the conterminous United States, 1992

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Reston, Va.] : The Survey, [2001]

NOTES
"The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has produced a land cover dataset for the conterminous United States from 1992 Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and supplemental data. The seamless National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) contains 21 categories of land cover information suitable for a variety of state and regional applications, including landscape analysis, land management, and development of nutrient and pesticide runoff models."

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000.

SUBJECTS
Phytogeography--United States--Remote-sensing maps.
Land use--United States--Remote-sensing maps.
Land cover.
United States.

MEDIUM
1 map : col. ; 56 x 86 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3701.D2 2001 .U5

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3701d ct000848 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701d.ct000848

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