NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Population
NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Inventory and Monitoring Division:. 2015. NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Population
This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides guidance on how to generate NPScape metrics of current human population density and total by US Census block-group (available for 1990, 2000 and 2010). 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 density and total metrics for the Population 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 human population data other than US Census, this SOP provides a processing template for recalculating focal metrics associated with the Population 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