Homer, C., C. Huang, L. Yang, B. Wylie and M. Coan, 2004. Development of a 2001 national land cover database for the United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
The USGS acknowledges the support of the U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station and Sanborn Map Company in development of data in this zone.
The NLCD 2001 was created by partitioning the U.S. into mapping zones. A total of 66 mapping zones were delineated within the conterminous U.S. based on ecoregion and geographical characteristics, edge matching features and the size requirement of Landsat mosaics. Mapping zone 65 encompasses whole or portions of several states including Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Questions about the NLCD mapping zone 65 can be directed to the NLCD 2001 land cover mapping team at the USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD (605) 594-6151 or mrlc@usgs.gov.
By combining the training data with Landsat spectral data and other ancillary data, percent imperviousness prediction models were developed using a regression tree algorithm (named "Cubist"). All data layers used as input for running the Cubist in order to establish the prediction model for imperviousness are listed in the "Supplemental Information" section. Three ancillary data sets were used for urban/suburban delineation masking, which is essential to confine the imperviousness mapping within the developed areas.
After the best combination of possible input data layers had been determined and the final percent impervious layer produced, the urban mask created was used to eliminate those pixels from the final percent impervious file that fall outside identified impervious surface areas. Thus, the impervious pixels identified within the mask were retained, while all non-impervious surface pixels were removed from the final product. This corrected for any small areas of pixels that may have been included as part of the impervious surface layer because their spectral signature was not covered in the Cubist modeling process. Finally, visual inspection of imperviousness layer was made with limited manual editing to eliminate non-urban areas based on area of interest delineated by the mapping team.
Acquisition dates of Landsat ETM+ (TM) scenes used for land cover classification in zone 65 are as follows:
SPRING-
Index 3 for Path 11/Row 31 on 05/10/01 = Scene_ID 5011031000113010
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 30 on 05/09/01 = Scene_ID 7012030000112950
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 31 on 05/09/01 = Scene_ID 7012031000112950
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 32 on 05/09/01 = Scene_ID 7012032000112950
Index 4 for Path 13/Row 30 on 05/08/01 = Scene_ID 5013030000112810
Index 4 for Path 13/Row 31 on 05/08/01 = Scene_ID 5013031000112810
Index 6 for Path 13/Row 31 on 04/28/03 = Scene_ID 5013031000311810
Index 5 for Path 13/Row 32 on 04/28/03 = Scene_ID 5013032000311810
Index 1 for Path 14/Row 29 on 05/07/01 = Scene_ID 7014029000112750
Index 1 for Path 14/Row 30 on 05/07/01 = Scene_ID 7014030000112750
Index 1 for Path 14/Row 31 on 05/07/01 = Scene_ID 7014031000112750
LEAF ON (Summer)-
Index 1 for Path 11/Row 31 on 08/09/02 = Scene_ID 7011031000222150
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 30 on 06/21/02 = Scene_ID 5012030000217210
Index 3 for Path 12/Row 30 on 06/10/01 = Scene_ID 7012030000116150
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 31 on 06/21/02 = Scene_ID 5012031000217210
Index 3 for Path 12/Row 31 on 06/10/01 = Scene_ID 7012031000116150
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 32 on 06/21/02 = Scene_ID 5012032000217210
Index 4 for Path 13/Row 29 on 06/04/02 = Scene_ID 7013029000215550
Index 5 for Path 13/Row 30 on 08/31/99 = Scene_ID 7013030009924350
Index 6 for Path 13/Row 31 on 07/27/01 = Scene_ID 5013031000120810
Index 6 for Path 13/Row 32 on 07/27/01 = Scene_ID 5013032000120810
Index 7 for Path 14/Row 29 on 06/08/01 = Scene_ID 7014029000115950
Index 7 for Path 14/Row 30 on 06/08/01 = Scene_ID 7014030000115950
Index 8 for Path 14/Row 31 on 06/11/99 = Scene_ID 5014031009916210
LEAF-OFF (Fall)-
Index 4 for Path 11/Row 31 on 10/22/00 = Scene_ID 7011031000029650
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 30 on 10/16/01 = Scene_ID 7012030000128950
Index 2 for Path 12/Row 31 on 10/16/01 = Scene_ID 7012031000128950
Index 3 for Path 12/Row 32 on 11/01/01 = Scene_ID 7012032000130550
Index 1 for Path 13/Row 30 on 10/20/00 = Scene_ID 7013030000029450
Index 1 for Path 13/Row 31 on 10/20/00 = Scene_ID 7013031000029450
Index 1 for Path 13/Row 32 on 10/20/00 = Scene_ID 7013032000029450
Index 6 for Path 14/Row 29 on 10/12/03 = Scene_ID 5014029000328510
Index 5 for Path 14/Row 30 on 10/30/01 = Scene_ID 7014030000130350
Index 7 for Path 14/Row 31 on 10/01/02 = Scene_ID 7014031000227450
Landsat data and ancillary data used for the imperviousness prediction -
Data Type of DEM composed of 1 band and a Continuous Variable Type.
Data Type of Slope composed of 1 band and a Continuous Variable Type.
Data Type of Aspect composed of 1 band of Categorical Variable Type.
Data type of Position Index composed of 1 band of Continuous Variable Type.
Ancillary data used for urban area masking include:
1. NOAA Defense Meteorological Satellite Program 1 km city light data (1 band)
2. MRLC 1992 classification (1 band)
3. TIGER 2000 roads (1 band)