National Park Service Vegetation Inventory Program: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin [and associated files]
Hop K, Lubinski S, Dieck J, Menard S, Drake J. 2010. National Park Service Vegetation Inventory Program: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin [and associated files]. Natural Resource Report. NPS/GLKN/NRR—2010/199. Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore vegetation mapping project delivers many geospatial and vegetation data products in hardcopy and digital formats. These products consist of an in-depth project report discussing methods and results, which include descriptions and a dichotomous key to vegetation types, map classification and map-class descriptions, and a contingency table showing AA results. They also include ground photos of vegetation types; a database of vegetation plots and AA sites; field data sheets; aerial photographic prints and images; hardcopy maps; and a geodatabase of vegetation types (map layer), fieldwork locations (vegetation plots and AA sites), aerial photographic indexes, and project boundary. Summary reports generated from the vegetation map layer indicate that forest types dominate the vegetation landscape (types from the NVCS), populating 88.9% of polygons and covering 96.6% of area, and are largely dominated by the Maple - Yellow Birch Northern Hardwoods Forest community. A thematic AA was conducted of map classes representing floristic types in the NVCS. Results present an overall accuracy of 87.7% (kappa index of 87.2%) based on data from 673 of the 687 AA site data. Most individual map-class themes exceed the NPS VIP standard of 80%, with a 90% confidence interval.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hop, Kevin; Lubinski, Sara; Dieck, Jennifer; Menard, Shannon; Drake, Jim
- Date of Issue
- 2010-05
- Publisher
- Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- APIS , GLKN , NRSS , VMI
- Keywords
- Apostle Islands, Lake Superior, Mapping, Plant Communities, Vegetation, Vegetation Inventory, Wisconsin