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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Interactive Mapping

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

Urban Growth

The urban growth model uses the land cover data from the first phase of Connecticut’s Changing Landscape to characterize patterns of the growth of developed land within the state. If you look at our land cover change maps, your eyes can pick out the general pattern of how your town or watershed has been developed—but we want to be able to be able to describe those patterns objectively, and in some detail. The urban growth model will allow us to do this. It looks at each individual developed “pixel” and notes its relationship to the other pixels around it. By doing this for the entire state (some X million pixels!), it classifies all new developed land into one of 5 types of urban growth: infill, expansion, clustered branching, linear branching and isolated. This will help us to gain more insight into issues like “smart growth” and “sprawl.”