National Park Service. 2010. NPScape pattern measure – Phase 2 pattern metrics processing SOP. North American Landcover forest and grassland morphology
NPS-IMD. 2010. National Park Service. 2010. NPScape pattern measure – Phase 2 pattern metrics processing SOP. North American Landcover forest and grassland morphology. NPS-IMD
NPScape NALC Pattern Morphology Measure Processing SOP. This SOP provides guidance on how to acquire and process data for NPScape’s NALC landscape morphology metrics, which are used to classify and describe spatial elements such as core habitat. Morphology metrics are calculated for both forest and grassland areas: a metric based on Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) data (prefixed with ‘PMF’ or ‘PMG’).The purpose of this SOP is threefold. This SOP provides detailed documentation on methods the NPS Landscape Dynamics Project (NPScape) used to calculate these measures. Second, this SOP provides any user with the ability to re-create NPScape results. Finally, if a Park or Network has a need to generate results using, for example, a different land cover map, or different area of analysis, this SOP provides a template that will permit others to quickly and efficiently modify the methods to meet these sorts of needs.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- NPS-IMD
- Date of Issue
- 2010-12-29
- Publisher
- NPS-IMD
- Units
- NRSS
- Keywords
- Forest, Grassland, Land Cover, Landscape dynamics, Morphology, MSPA, NPScape, Phase 2