About the website
This website provides web maps, statistics, and analysis related to landscape change of Connecticut for the 25-year period from 1985 to 2010. Maps are land cover map of 1985, 1990, 2002, 2006 and 2010, Change to Developed (1985-2010) and Change From Land Cover (1985-2010).
The need for the website
Land use and land cover change is important to other global environmental change and sustainable development issues. Connecticut is located in the northeast of the United States and is located between the two major metropolitan centers of New York City and Boston. Because Connecticut is an urbanizing state with a population density in the top five in the nation, the management of natural resources faces tremendous pressure. With urbanization comes a host of complex land use issues related to balancing growth and natural resource protection. I created the website Web Based Land Cover Maps of Connecticut to provide online maps, statistics, and analysis related to the landscape change of Connecticut for the 25-year period from 1985 to 2010. It can provide assistance to land use decision makers and other audiences in support of better land use decisions and healthier natural resources.