The Chesapeake Conservancy is a non-profit organization that uses technology and advocacy to support the conservation of the Chesapeake Bay estuary and its watershed. They empower data-driven precision conservation, striving to conserve 30% of the Chesapeake's lands and waters by 2030. The Conservancy partners with organizations like the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Microsoft, utilizing tools like high-resolution mapping and cloud computing to aid conservation efforts. Keywords associated with the Chesapeake Conservancy are: conservation, Chesapeake Bay, data-driven conservation, and land restoration.
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The 2017-18 one-meter resolution land use/land cover dataset was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Chesapeake Conservancy, and University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entered into a six-year cooperative agreement with the Chesapeake Conservancy in 2018 to produce land use, land cover, and land change data for the Chesapeake Bay watershed.