Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
1999-2008. Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Great Smoky Mountains 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. At the beginning of the GRSM mapping project, the photointerpreters, in conjunction with NPS plant specialists, conducted field investigations to collect data on the forest communities and correlate signatures evident on the aerial photographs with ground observations. Consequently, UTM coordinates and field data were collected at over 2000 locations. A compilation of all field information was used by Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) ecologists to organize the GRSM overstory and understory vegetation into a classification system with 170 unique association-level classes suitable for use with the large and medium-scale aerial photographs.The main requirement for the project was to produce a vegetation database and associated maps in vector format that contained polygons for over 150 overstory and understory plant communities plotted to within approximately + 5 to + 10 m of their true ground locations
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- APHN , GRSM , 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