Report Supplements and Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of North Cascades National Park

2005-2020. Report Supplements and Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of North Cascades National Park. National Park Service

This reference is an assemblage of field and report data collected as part the baseline vegetation inventory for the park unit. The files include high and low resolution map layouts, vegetation plot data, field photos, accuracy assessment contingency table, maps showing locations of vegetation plots and accuracy assessment plots, and supplemental materials for the report, including map class descriptions and a key to the map classes. The map is based on a vegetation classification developed during the project and was created using a inductive modeling approach. Data used to construct the classification were collected between 2005 and 2015, and included plots from Mount Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park. These plots were used to develop and refine the association-level National Vegetation Classification (NVC). The associations were combined into map classes based roughly on the NVC alliance-level classification, but updated to allow improved map detail and accuracy. Model training data relied only on plots from NOCA, also collected during the same years. Independent field accuracy assessment data were collected in 2016 and applied to the final map generated later. The final vegetation map, including a buffer surrounding the park complex, contains 41 natural vegetated classes, five mostly unvegetated natural classes, and five classes representing burned areas or anthropogenic disturbance.

Type
Assemblage
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
NCCN , NOCA , VMI
Keywords
Accuracy Assessment, botanical survey, Classification, Geodatabase, Habitat Types, Imagery, National Vegetation Classification, NCCN, NOCA, North Cascades National Park, North Coast and Cascades Network, NVC, NVCS, Plots, Predictor Data, Random forests, Raster, Releve, Relevé, Remote Sensing, USNVCS, Vegetation, Vegetation Inventory, Vegetation Map, Vegetation Mapping

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