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Information on land cover across North America provided by this data set is valuable for a range of audiences, including international organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, nongovernmental conservation organizations, land managers, and scientific researchers. The continental scale land cover data generated under NALCMS can be used to address issues such as climate change, carbon sequestration, biodiversity loss, and changes in ecosystem structure and function, by helping users to better understand the dynamics and continental-scale patterns of North AmericaÂ’s changing environment. The North American Atlas data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the national and continental level. These data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:10,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by Natural Resources Canada, Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica y GeografÃa, the U.S. Geological Survey, or the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in the use of these data.
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Information on land cover across North America provided by this data set is valuable for a range of audiences, including international organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, nongovernmental conservation organizations, land managers, and scientific researchers. The continental scale land cover data generated under NALCMS can be used to address issues such as climate change, carbon sequestration, biodiversity loss, and changes in ecosystem structure and function, by helping users to better understand the dynamics and continental-scale patterns of North AmericaÂ’s changing environment. The North American Atlas data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the national and continental level. These data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:10,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by Natural Resources Canada, Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica y GeografÃa, the U.S. Geological Survey, or the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in the use of these data.
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<div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span>The 2010 North American Land Cover data set was produced as part of the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS), a trilateral effort between the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, the United States Geological Survey, and three Mexican organizations including the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia), National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of the Biodiversity (Comisión Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad), and the National Forestry Commission of Mexico (Comisión Nacional Forestal). The collaboration is facilitated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an international organization created by the Canada, Mexico, and United States governments under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation to promote environmental collaboration between the three countries. The general objective of NALCMS is to devise, through collective effort, a harmonized multi-scale land cover monitoring approach which ensures high accuracy and consistency in monitoring land cover changes at the North American scale and which meets each countryÂs specific requirements. The initial data set of North American Land Cover at 250 meters reflected land cover information for 2005. This 2010 data set was produced by updating the 2005 data to show land cover changes as determined from more recent data. No changes were mapped in Hawaii because newer data were not available. Land cover classification changed between 2005 and 2010 for approximately 1 percent of the continental area. For the continental data sets (including surrounding water fringe) 4150241 pixels (1.03% of the area) changed in the update. The following national counts exclude the water fringe: Canada, 3264779 pixels changed (2.05%); Mexico, 47070 pixels changed (0.15%), and U.S., 836706 pixels changed (0.55%). The initial data set used to generate land cover information over North America was produced by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing from observations acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS/Terra). All seven land spectral bands were processed from Level 1 granules into top-of-atmosphere reflectance covering North America at a 250-meter spatial and 10-day temporal resolution. In order to generate a seamless and consistent land cover map of North America, national maps were generated for Canada by the CCRS; for Mexico by INEGI, CONABIO, and CONAFOR; and for the United States by the USGS. Each country used specific training data and land cover mapping methodologies to create national data sets. This North America data set was produced by combining the national land cover data sets. The countries worked together to produce a definitive list of land cover classifications for the 2005 data; the same classifications were used for the 2010 data. This document is available for download from the same site as the data and is entitled: North American Land Cover Classifications (2005).</span></p></div></div></div>
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