NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Land Cover
NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:. 2014. NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Land Cover
This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides guidance on how to generate the following NPScape land cover metrics: area per category (LAC), impervious surface (LPI), natural vs. converted (LNC), and change index (LCI). 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 LAC, LPI, LNC, and LCI metrics for the Land Cover 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 other sources of land cover data, this SOP provides a processing template for recalculating focal metrics associated with the Land Cover measure.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:
- Date of Issue
- 2014-04-24
- 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