We have taken the Uso del Suelo y Vegetacion land cover classification products for Mexico (courtesy of Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, or INEGI) for years 1985, 1993, 2002, 2007, and 2011 (INEGI, 2015); and harmonized their classes with the classes of the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC) National Land Cover Database (NLCD) (Homer et al., 2015). Details of processing, along with the processing scripts, are archived in GitHub in the NLCD_INEGI project (Bohn, 2019). This project contains the following g-zipped tar files: SERIE_I.tgz - land cover from 1985 SERIE_II.tgz - land cover from 1993 SERIE_III.tgz - land cover from 2002 SERIE_IV.tgz - land cover from 2007 SERIE_V.tgz - land cover from 2011 On LINUX, the contents of these files can be extracted via "tar": tar -xvzf SERIE_I.tgz >& log.tar.txt On Windows, applications such as "7-zip" can extract the contents. Each of these .tgz files contain a folder with the same name but without the ".tgz". Within each of these folders are the following sub-folders: For SERIE_I to SERIE_IV: metatiles/ - original land cover shapefiles, with Mexico divided into "metatiles" along UTM zones, as documented in Processing_of_INEGI_USOSV_dataset.docx geo/ - shapefiles from "metatiles", reprojected into geographic entire/ - shapefiles from "geo" merged into a single file for the entire country For SERIE_V: entire/ - original land cover shapefile in Lambert Conical projection, covering all of Mexico geo/ - shapefile from "entire" reprojected into geographic SERIE_I to SERIE_V: cve_union/ - shapefiles covering all of Mexico, in geographic projection, with land cover reclassified to NLCD 2011 legend rasters/ - files from "cve_union", rasterized at 0.000350884 degree resolution ascii/ - raster files from "rasters", exported to ascii ESRI grid file format Output files (in the "ascii" folders) are ESRI ascii raster grid files, in geographic projection, with cellsize = 0.000350884 degrees.