Current, accurate mapping of land cover conditions (and change through time) can provide key insights to managers and better support coastal management, flood risk and environmental assessment, green infrastructure and land use planning, and more.

For over two 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 on the Digital Coast. This presentation will focus on progress being made to bring the Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) framework to the local level and NOAA’s vision for 1-meter land cover monitoring nationwide. These next generation products, driven by AI mapping technologies, offer a leap in detail and precision over past national data sets, at scale.

We will discuss data and information products that have been produced to date (Texas and Florida), areas of data development in progress (Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), as well as examples of just some of the various applications this information can support.