Live Webmap Demo

Watch land cover change over time.

This demo turns NLCD raster data into a browser-based map for exploring how developed land, vegetation, cropland, water, and wetlands changed around the Round Rock and Williamson County area from 2001 to 2019.

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Four-year land-cover map comparison for the Round Rock area — The interactive version uses static web tiles generated from the original NLCD GeoTIFF rasters.

What It Shows

A planning-friendly view of urban growth and landscape change.

The map simplifies NLCD categories into seven readable classes and lets viewers switch between selected years. The goal is to make raster analysis understandable to non-specialists while still showing real geospatial processing behind the scenes.

2001-2019 multi-year land-cover comparison using National Land Cover Database rasters

7 classes water, developed, barren, forest, grass/shrub, cropland, and wetland

Static tiles browser-ready map layers generated from source GeoTIFF data

Interactive Demo

Round Rock area land-cover explorer.

Toggle years, adjust overlay opacity, and review simple land-cover area trends. The demo is intentionally lightweight so it can be hosted as part of a static website.

Reusable Pattern

This same approach can work for other places.

The workflow can be adapted for a city, county, watershed, property, corridor, or planning area where land-cover change matters.

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