Connecticut's Changing Landscape

Long Island Sound Impervious Surfaces Coastal Area Land Cover Analysis Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion Geospatial Database for Water Planning Mapping Tidal Marsh Vegetation Coastal Riparian Buffer Analysis NASA DEVELOP: Modeling Coastal Inundation

Land Cover Change Study Forest Fragmentation Urban Growth Impervious Surfaces

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Statewide 2004 Orthophotos Aerial True Color Coastal Aerial False Color Coastal

CT Landcover CT LiDAR-based Digital Elevation Data Packaged for CT's Coastal Municipalities Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT)

Connecticut Land Cover Coastal Municipal Data Impervious Surfaces

NEMO Website National NEMO Network Website Land Use Academy Forestry Websites Green Valley Institute Website Geospatial Technology Website Land Use Planning

Impervious Surfaces

Impervious surfaces associated with the “built environment,” like asphalt, roofing and cement, disrupt the water cycle and are widely accepted as a reliable indicator of urbanization and its impacts on natural resources, particularly water resources. CLEAR researchers have developed several ways to estimate and measure impervious surfaces, in support of their outreach programs for local land use officials; all of these techniques are described in the NEMO Program Impervious Surface website. The impervious surface model uses the land cover data from the first phase of Connecticut’s Changing Landscape, in combination with advanced remote sensing analytical techniques, to assess the amount of these materials.

This work is partially funded by the Long Island Sound Study, a National Estuary Program that is a collaboration of the federal EPA and the states of Connecticut and New York.