Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Dry Tortugas National Park
2009-2010. Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Dry Tortugas National Park
This reference is an assemblage of field data collected as part the baseline vegetation inventory for the park unit. Typical files here are vegetation plot data, accuracy assessment data, field photos, PDF showing locations of vegetation plots and accuracy assessment data, and other data for this type. All vegetation polygons were created via hiking, traversing each island until all vegetation communities had been mapped and recorded. When a community was reached that clearly was distinguishable from adjacent vegetation communities, this area was mapped using the Trimble GeoXT. The final vegetation map has a total of 41 mapping classes and 438 polygons with a total land area of 39.4 hectares. At the physiognomic level, Dry Tortugas vegetation map included 3 Woodland classes, 8 Shrubland classes, 5 Scrub classes, 20 Dune classes, 3 Sparse Vegetation classes, and 2 Non-Vegetative classes.
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- Assemblage
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- DRTO , SFCN , VMI
- Keywords
- Accuracy Assessment, botanical survey, Classification, Geodatabase, Habitat Types, Imagery, National Vegetation Classification, NVC, NVCS, Plots, Releve, Relevé, Remote Sensing, USNVCS, Vegetation, Vegetation Inventory, Vegetation Map, Vegetation Mapping