Report Supplements and Field Data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Mojave National Preserve and Castle Mountains National Monument
National Park Service. 2010-2024. Report Supplements and Field Data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Mojave National Preserve and Castle Mountains National Monument. 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 National Park Service’s Vegetation Mapping Inventory (VMI)1 and Mojave Desert Network (MOJN) initiated a vegetation inventory effort in 2010. Actual work began in 2011 on a ten-year, six-phase project with a review of the existing vegetation data, a summary of the previous classifications, and a work plan for the network were created. In phase two, the NPS VMI and California Native Plant Society (CNPS), in conjunction with researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), collected 630 classification plots and observation points across the landscape. Field data were then entered into the VMI-specific PLOTS database along with an additional 588 samples from a variety of past studies. In phase three, CNPS analyzed the PLOTS data to classify 67 plant alliances and two landform types using the revised US National Vegetation Classification (rUSNVC) standard. From this list, 136 plant associations were estimated to occur at MOJA and CAMO. The final MOJA and CAMO vegetation map layer was assessed for overall thematic accuracy at 91% with a Kappa value of 92%.
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- Assemblage
- Authors
- National Park Service
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- National Park Service
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- CAMO , MOJA
- 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