National Park Service. 2011. NPScape conservation status measure – Phase 2 Protected Areas Database of the United States metrics processing SOP: Protected area and ownership category metrics
NPS-IMD. 2011. National Park Service. 2011. NPScape conservation status measure – Phase 2 Protected Areas Database of the United States metrics processing SOP: Protected area and ownership category metrics. NPRC-FC
This SOP provides guidance on how to process the following metrics for the Conservation Status Measure from the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 1.2: Protected Area (PADUS_CAP) and Ownership Category (PADUS_CAC). These metrics are derived from the version 1.2 PAD-US geodatabase (PADUS1_2.gdb) feature class named PADUS1_2. 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 conservation status metrics, this SOP provides a template for how protected areas data can be processed to generate these metrics.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- NPS-IMD
- Date of Issue
- 2011-04-12
- Publisher
- NPRC-FC
- Units
- NRSS
- Keywords
- Conservation Status, Landscape dynamics, NPScape, PADUS, Phase 2