The
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium is a group
of federal agencies who first joined together in 1993 (
MRLC 1992
) to purchase
Landsat 5 imagery for the conterminous U.S. and to develop a land
cover dataset called the
National Land
Cover Dataset (NLCD 1992)
. In 1999, a
second-generation MRLC consortium (see logos) was formed to purchase
three dates of Landsat 7 imagery for the entire United States (
MRLC 2001
) and to coordinate
the production of a comprehensive land cover database for the nation
called the
National Land Cover Database
(NLCD 2001)
. Website provides
access to land cover data.