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Forest Cover Density Across The United States

August 29, 2017


Forest Cover Density Across The United States

NASA Earth Observatory map by Robert Simmon

The map above shows the density of forest cover across the continental United States in 2011.

It was created by Robert Simmon working on behalf of the NASA Earth Observatory using the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset. You can learn more about the project from NASA’s Where the Trees Are and Seeing Forests for the Trees and the Carbon: Mapping the World’s Forests in Three Dimensions.


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Comments

  1. Alain Terrieur says

    March 1, 2018 at 3:48 pm

    What borders are shown on this map? Certainly not the state borders.

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    • Gary says

      May 30, 2019 at 2:20 am

      Looks like waterways.

      Reply
  2. Tim says

    August 7, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    “The response variables (canopy height and biomass) used in model development and validation were derived from the FIA database. Production of the NLCD 2001 and LANDFIRE projects was based on a mapping zone approach in which the conterminous U.S. is split into 66 ecoregionally distinct mapping zones.”

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