Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
2002-2009. Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Appomattox Court House National Historical 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. Vegetation map classes were determined through extensive field reconnaissance, data collection, and analysis. Leaf-off aerial photography from 2000 served as the base map and field sampling was conducted from 2002–2004. Spatial data was digitized onscreen over digital orthophoto mosaics created from scanned color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography using a 0.5 hectare minimum mapping unit. Cultural map classes cover 40% (283.2 ha [699.9 ac]) of the park and include the Anderson land-use categories and other man-made or maintained areas in the park. Early successional or transitional vegetation covers 36% of the land in the park (251.3 ha [620.9 ac]). Seven map classes representing late successional vegetation cover just over 24% of the land in the park (169.4 ha [418.5 ac]) and can be broadly characterized based on different environmental settings as upland forests (four map classes) and forested wetlands (three map classes).
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- Assemblage
- Units
- APCO , MIDN , 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