Developing a New North American Land Cover Product at 30m Resolution: Methods, Results and Future Plans

Collin Homer1, Rene Roland Colditz2, Rasim Latifovic3, Ricardo M Llamas4, Darren Pouliot5, Patrick Danielson6, Carmen Meneses7, Arturo Victoria8, Rainer Ressl2, Karen Richardson9 and Mihaela Vulpescu10, (1)USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (2)National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity, Geomatics, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, United States, (5)Environment Canada Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (6)KBR, contractor to the USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (7)National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR), Jalisco, Mexico, (8)National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Land Cover and Land Use, Aguascalientes, Mexico, (9)Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Mexico, (10)Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, QC, Canada