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Imperviousness

Percent impervious land cover

Description​

This layer is a pixel-wise imperviousness derived from the Nature Conservancy’s high-resolution land cover data set. It is a binary classification of imperviousness (1 = impervious, 0 = not impervious)

Layer Access in Earth Engine​

The javascript commands below can be used to access this layer within the Google Earth Engine Code Editor. A Google Earth Engine account is required.

// Import the layer data dictionary
var data = require('users/stormwaterheatmap/apps:data/public')

// To view data dictionary, print to the console:
print('Data:', data)

//Get this layer from the layer data dictionary: 
var layer_name = data.rasters["Imperviousness"]

Viewing​

Individual objects contain all the info used in the stormwater heatmap. To add it to the map, add the layer object.

var display_image = layer_name.layer
Map.addLayer(display_image)

Analysis​

To get the raw image data for analysis, access the eeObject key.

var raw_image = layer_name.layer.eeObject
Map.addLayer(raw_image,{},'Imperviousness')

Layer Full-Extent Download​

Click the "download" link to initiate the download process. The data will download as a GeoTIFF file (the file size is listed beside the layer name) and a WGS 84 projection. The resolution is the finest available based on the source data.

Imperviousness (2.8 MB) download

Visualization​

Palette​

Colors
#002564#002564
#fce644#fce644

Minimum: 0 Percent

Maximum: 1 Percent

Source​

The Nature Conservancy