Vegetation Information for the PAAL Vegetation Inventory Project
2003. Vegetation Information for the PAAL Vegetation Inventory Project
This report covers the landscape classification and historic analysis of Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park. The NPS recreation of the 1846 PAAL landscape required multiple steps. First, the earliest photographic coverage of the PAAL portrays the landscape at some hopefully distant point in the past; hopefully before major landscape alterations. The NPS historians would then use this spatial portrayal and ancillary data to accurately recreate the 1846 PAAL landscape. Second, a key component of the NPS restoration plan included determining what alterations to the landscape had occurred; especially regarding the resaca’s and cordgrass prairie, pivotal components of the battle outcome. To detail landscape changes, the NPS restoration plan included documenting the current landscape status.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Date of Issue
- 2003
- Units
- PAAL , VMI
- Keywords
- Accuracy Assessment, Aerial Photography, alliances, Associations, community association, Digital Orthophoto, Digital Spatial Database, DOQ, DOQQ, Field Data, flight line, GIS, GPS, habitat mapping, Inventory Projects, Landcover, Landscape, National Park, National Park Service Inventory, National Vegetation Classification Standard, National Vegetation Classification System, NVCS, Orthophoto, Plots, U.S. National Vegetation Classification, USNVC, USNVCS, Vegetation Inventory, Vegetation Inventory Report, Vegetation Map Report, Vegetation Mapping, Vegetation Plots