National Park Service. 2010. NPScape landcover measure – Phase 2 North American Landcover metrics processing SOP: Landcover area per category and natural vs. converted landcover metrics
NPS-IMD. 2010. National Park Service. 2010. NPScape landcover measure – Phase 2 North American Landcover metrics processing SOP: Landcover area per category and natural vs. converted landcover metrics. NRPC-FC
This SOP provides guidance on how to process the following metrics for NPScape’s NALC Landcover Measure: Landcover Area per Category (LAC) and Natural vs. Converted (LNC). The purpose of this SOP is threefold. First, because these directions were followed for the processing of the NPS dataset, it provides detailed documentation on the methodology the NPS Landscape Dynamics Project (NPScape) used to calculate these metrics. Second, this SOP provides any user with the ability to replicate the creation of these data. Finally, if a Park or Network has a need to process landcover metrics, this SOP provides a template for how spatial landcover data can be processed to generate these metrics.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- NPS-IMD
- Date of Issue
- 2010-12-29
- Publisher
- NRPC-FC
- Units
- NRSS
- Keywords
- Land Cover, Landscape dynamics, NALC, NPScape, Phase 2