SOP #05: Generating Sampling Point Locations with GIS. Version 2.0. Pacific Island Network Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
Wasser M. 2019. SOP #05: Generating Sampling Point Locations with GIS. Version 2.0. Pacific Island Network Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
This SOP explains how to generate random sampling points for Pacific Island Network (PACN) Terrestrial Plant Community Monitoring Protocol using ArcGIS® Desktop (ArcMap® version 10.6.1 as of this update). Once sampling points have been generated, SOP #9 Establishing and Marking Vegetation Monitoring Plots describes how to install rectangular plots around each sampling point.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Wasser, Mark
- Date of Issue
- 2019-08-02
- Units
- AMME , HALE , HAVO , KAHO , KALA , NPSA , PACN , WAPA
- Keywords
- ArcGIS, Coordinates, Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities, GIS, Maps, Plots, Random Point Generation, Transects