Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Death Valley National Park
National Park Service. 2021. Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Death Valley National Park. National Park Service
The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles. Cogan Technology, Inc. (CTI) created the digital vegetation map layer for the Death Valley National Park project area that covered 3,430,818 acres (1,389,486 ha). The resulting spatial database and vegetation map layer were created using a combination of 2020 (California) and 2019 (Nevada) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) basemap data, ground-based verification efforts, and a two-step, or hybrid mapping approach that used both manual and automated techniques. By comparing the vegetation signatures on the imagery to the field data, 90 map units (74 vegetated and 16 land-use/land-cover) were developed and used to delineate the plant communities. The interpreted vegetation polygons were then digitized into a Geographic Information System (GIS) layer that was field-tested, reviewed, and revised. The final DEVA vegetation map layer was assessed for overall thematic accuracy at 82% with a Kappa value of 89%.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- National Park Service
- Date of Issue
- 2021
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- DEVA
- 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