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

Connecticut's Changing Landscape

Connecticut's landscape is changing. The natural forested land of the Northeast, almost completely converted to farmland only a hundred years ago, is now undergoing a transformation to an urban/suburban landscape. With these changes come a number of concerns about the environmental, social and economic impacts of development, some of which have become the subject of intense debate across the state. Connecticut's Changing Landscape, a project under development at UConn for the past two years, is an attempt to bring research-based information and education to these debates.

HOW, exactly, is our landscape changing? The UConn Center for Land use Education And Research (CLEAR) has made use of cutting-edge remote sensing techniques to provide data about how our landscape has changed since 1985, with a special emphasis on the growth of developed land.

Below are links to the four in-depth analyses that make up the entire project, each looking at a slightly different aspect of our changing landscape.

Land Cover Change Analysis	Urban Growth Analysis	Forest Fragmentation Analysis	Impervious Surface Analysis
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