NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Pattern Area Density
NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:. 2014. NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Pattern Area Density
This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides guidance on how to process NPScape area density metrics used in classifying and describing spatial characteristics such as intact vs. patchy habitat, where cover type density is calculated based on different sizes of moving windows. The purpose of this SOP is threefold. First, because these directions were followed in the processing of the NPS datasets, it provides detailed documentation on the methodology used by NPScape to calculate area density metrics for the Pattern measure. Second, this SOP provides any user with the ability to replicate the creation of these data for custom areas of analysis. Finally, if an I&M park or network has a need to analyze data other than forest of grassland density from NLCD or NALC, this SOP provides a processing template for recalculating focal metrics associated with the Pattern measure.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:
- Date of Issue
- 2014-01-06
- Units
- IMD , NRSS
- Keywords
- Alaska, area of analysis, conservation context, Conservation Status, Environment, Hawaii, Housing, human drivers, human population, I&M, IMD Publication, Inventory And Monitoring, Land Cover, Landscape, Landscape dynamics, Landscape Pattern, Monitoring, Natural systems, None, NPScape, Puerto Rico, resource conservation vulnerability and opportunity, Resource Management, Roads, Society, United States