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Regional Data: Long Island, New York, Land Cover


Period

1993/94 – This is a single time period land cover classification, not a change detection. Planning is underway at the state level to include change analysis.

Land cover map of the Long Island, NY area

A descriptive summary of this data set is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). The summary includes a report of the dominant land covers and a tabular summary of the 1993/94 land cover data set.

View or download the Descriptive Summary (approximately 0.92 megabytes).

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Description

The land cover classification was conducted with Landsat TM imagery (Path 13, Rows 31 and 32) that encompasses all of Long Island.

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Data for other Land Cover Analysis projects