New data on Pennsylvania forest patches is available on Xanthus. The datasets were created by the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The forest patches were delineated using the new 2006 NLCD data (also available on Xanthus). The TNC defines forest patches as "contiguous areas of natural cover bound by any linear fragmenting feature (roads, railroads, … [Read more...]
New National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) Available
The latest edition of the NLCD (2006) is now publicly available, providing updates on land cover change occurring between 2001 and 2006. I'm working on downloading the data to the GIS data folder on Xanthus so stay tuned for a post telling you when that's complete. If you can't wait, click here to download the data now from the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics … [Read more...]