Vegetation classification crosswalk database for use in GIS to synchronize vegetation map layers of the NPS Great Lakes Network to the U.S. National Vegetation Classification
Hop K, Menard S, Key R, Gafvert U. 2015. Vegetation classification crosswalk database for use in GIS to synchronize vegetation map layers of the NPS Great Lakes Network to the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, U.S. Geological Survey
The geodatabase contains 13 relate tables that together provide updated and synchronized classifications to an existing vegetation map layer for each of the nine park units in the Great Lakes Network (GLKN) of the National Park Service (NPS) Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring Program. The classifications include 1) vegetation types at every hierarchical level in the 2015 version of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification (USNVC) and 2) map classes that represent vegetation and land cover in the vegetation map layers. Furthermore, the tables provide a crosswalk between the two classifications (vegetation and map). Each park unit in GLKN has received, at different times over several years, vegetation data products from the NPS Vegetation Mapping Inventory (VMI) Program. However, the vegetation and map classifications were at different stages of development over these years. With this geodatabase product, having a series of already linked relate tables, the original vegetation map layer for each park unit can be linked to the updated and synchronized classification information for both vegetation types and map classes.
- Type
- Tabular Dataset
- Authors
- Hop, Kevin; Menard, Shannon; Key, Rebecca; Gafvert, Ulf
- Date of Issue
- 2015-10-09
- Publisher
- Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, U.S. Geological Survey
- Units
- APIS , GLKN , GRPO , INDU , ISRO , MISS , PIRO , SACN , SLBE , VOYA
- Keywords
- crosswalk, Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service, NVCS, USNVC, Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program
See also
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Grand Portage National Monument
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Isle Royale National Park
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
- Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Voyageurs National Park