Report Supplements and Field Data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Death Valley National Park
National Park Service. 2011-2024. Report Supplements and Field Data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Death Valley National Park. National Park Service
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. The project, which began in 2011, was initiated by the National Park Service’s (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Inventory (VMI), aimed to document and classify the plant communities within DEVA. The ten-year project, divided into six phases, began with a thorough review of legacy data and a summary of plant communities. In collaboration with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), field data were collected across the park, including 111 classification plots and 518 observation points. This data, along with 1,242 samples from previous studies, were entered into the NPS VMI-specific PLOTS database. The CNPS analyzed the collected data to classify 85 plant alliances according to the revised US National Vegetation Classification (rUSNVC) standard, leading to the identification of 186 plant associations within DEVA. The map’s overall thematic accuracy was assessed at 82%, with a Kappa value of 89%.
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- National Park Service
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- National Park Service
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- DEVA
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- 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