Tracking cropland transitions: A comparative analysis of U.S. land cover change data.

ABSTRACT: There are a growing number of land cover data available for the conterminous United States, supporting various applications ranging from biofuel regulatory decisions to habitat conservation assessments. These datasets vary in their source information, frequency of data collection and reporting, land class definitions, categorical detail, and spatial scale and time intervals of representation. These differences limit direct comparison, contribute to disagreements among studies, confuse stakeholders, and hamper our ability to confidently report key land cover trends in the U.S. Here we assess changes in cropland derived from the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) dataset from the U.S. Geological Survey and compare them with analyses of three established land cover dat

SUBMITTER: Martin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11918356 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature