NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Pattern Morphology
NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:. 2015. NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Pattern Morphology
This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides guidance on how to process NPScape morphology metrics used in classifying and describing spatial characteristics such as core vs. edge habitat. The purpose of this SOP is threefold. First, because these directions were followed in the processing of the NPS dataset, it provides detailed documentation on the methodology used by NPScape to calculate morphology and patch size distribution 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 or grassland morphology 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
- 2015-04-15
- 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