Description: Classified 2011 land cover of the 6 Chesapeake Bay watershed states (Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia) and Washington D.C. Based on the most recent National Land Cover Database, which is the definitive Landsat-based, 30-meter resolution land cover database for the United States. NLCD products are created by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, a partnership of Federal agencies led by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey (2014), U.S. Census Bureau (2014), Chesapeake Bay Foundation (2015)