NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Conservation Status
NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:. 2015. NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Conservation Status
This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides guidance on how to calculate NPScape area protected and ownership/governance metrics. 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 protected area and ownership/governance metrics for the Conservation Status 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 protected area data other than PAD-US, WDPA, or MPA, this SOP provides a processing template for recalculating focal metrics associated with the Conservation Status measure.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:
- Date of Issue
- 2015-04-14
- 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