Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project for Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project for Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. 2005-2007
The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project is part of the NPS Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program (VMI), an important component of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program. The NPS Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program utilizes the National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVCS), a classification system well integrated with the major scientific efforts in the taxonomic classification of vegetation. The classification system is a Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standard for the physiognomic levels (coarser detail). Work continues on the floristic levels (fine detail) through both the FGDC Vegetation Subcommittee and the Ecological Society of America Vegetation Panel. The map class themes represent NVCS natural/semi-natural vegetation communities. Maps are produced in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), NAD83 datum with a 1:24,000 scale and a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 hectares. The vegetation maps must meet the National Map Accuracy Standards for positional accuracy and the minimum class accuracy goal across all vegetation and land cover classes of 80 percent. The Accuracy Assessment Spatial Database provides spatially referenced locations that were selected for field assessment to support a statistical analysis of a thematic AA of the vegetation spatial database coverage for the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project. For more documentation on the analysis methods and results, including the error contingency matrix, see the Project's technical report. Spatial data products include Aerial photography, Map classification, Map classification description and key, Spatial database of vegetation communities, Hardcopy maps of vegetation communities, and Metadata for spatial databases. Non-spatial products include Vegetation classification, Dichotomous field key of vegetation classes, Formal description for each vegetation class, Ground photos of vegetation classes,and Field data in database format. Data are currently mounted and served at the USGS Vegetation Charactization Program as part of a joint program agreement.
- Type
- Project
- Date of Issue
- 2010-10-04
- Units
- SAND , VMI
- Keywords
- Accuracy Assessment, Biota, Colorado, Digital Spatial Database, Field Data, GIS, GPS, ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover, International Vegetation Classification, National Park, National Park Service, National Vegetation Classification Standard, National Vegetation Classification System, NPS, NVCS, SAND, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, U.S. National Vegetation Classification, US Geological Survey, USA, USGS, USNVC, Vegetation, Vegetation Inventory, Vegetation Map
Program
Products
- Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Vegetation Classification and Mapping, A report for the Southern Plains Network
- Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
- Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
- Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site - Open Format Data Package