The 2010 North American Land Cover data set was produced as part of the North  American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS), a trilateral effort between the  Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, the United States Geological Survey, and three  Mexican organizations including the National Institute of Statistics and Geography  (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia), National Commission for the  Knowledge and Use of the Biodiversity (Comisión Nacional Para el Conocimiento y  Uso de la Biodiversidad), and the National Forestry Commission of Mexico (Comisión  Nacional Forestal).  The collaboration is facilitated by the Commission for  Environmental Cooperation, an international organization created by the Canada,  Mexico, and United States governments under the North American Agreement on  Environmental Cooperation to promote environmental collaboration between the three  countries.