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High Resolution C-CAP Land Cover Data for Puget Sound
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
409
For over three decades, NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management has produced consistent, accurate land cover and change information through its Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP), available through the Digital Coast. C-CAP land cover data have been essential for comprehensive regional management, assessment, and planning. In recent years, NOAA has moved toward higher-resolution (1-meter) products, bringing the national C-CAP framework to the local level. By providing significantly more detail (900 times that of the past 30-meter products), these new 20-class products support site-specific applications, including water quality assessment, flood inundation modeling, and stormwater management. In Washington specifically, improved riparian habitat modeling, 6-PPD runoff source identification, and improved urban heat island modeling will help prepare the state’s rich ecosystems and built areas for a changing climate. This presentation highlights newly released high resolution land cover data for 10 Puget Sound counties, covering the history of the C-CAP program, the coverage, classifications, and accuracy of the recently released data, and some potential use cases.
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avatar for Bret Folger

Bret Folger

West Coast Regional Geospatial Coordinator, Lynker/NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Bret facilitates and extends regional outreach, communication, collaboration, and technical assistance to partners in all aspects of geospatial data for coastal management. He informs the development of NOAA Digital Coast data and tools that meet the region's unique needs through... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
409
  Remote Sensing, Land Cover

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