Land Cover Summary Statistics Data Package For Greater Yellowstone Network Park Units

This report documents the acquisition of source data, and calculation of land cover summary statistics datasets for four National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Network park units and six custom areas of analysis: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, Yellowstone National Park, and the six custom areas of analysis. The source data and land cover calculations are available for use within the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program. Land cover summary statistics datasets can be calculated for all geographic regions within the extent of the NPS; this report includes statistics calculated for the conterminous United States. The land cover summary statistics datasets are calculated from multiple sources, including Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium products in the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center products in the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) raster dataset. These summary statistics calculate land cover at up to three classification scales: Level 1, modified Anderson Level 2, and Natural versus Converted land cover. The output land cover summary statistics datasets produced here for the four Greater Yellowstone Network park units and six custom areas of analysis utilize the most recent versions of the source datasets (NLCD and LCMAP). These land cover summary statistics datasets are used in the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program, including the NPS Environmental Settings Monitoring Protocol and may be used by networks and parks for additional efforts.
Organization: Department of the Interior
Last updated: 2025-09-14T19:02:41.284938
Tags: land-cover, land-cover-change, land-use, landscape, landscape-change