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- description: The Gap Analysis Program (GAP) is an element of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). GAP helps to implement the
Department of Interior?s goals of inventory, monitoring, research, and information transfer. GAP has three primary goals:
1 Identify conservation gaps that help keep common species common; 2 Provide conservation information to the public so that
informed resource management decisions can be made; and 3 Facilitate the application of GAP data and analysis to specific
resource management activities. To implement these goals, GAP carries out the following objectives: --Map the land cover of
the United States --Map predicted distributions of vertebrate species for the U.S. --Map the location, ownership and stewardship
of protected areas --Document the representation of vertebrate species and land cover types in areas managed for the long-term
maintenance of biodiversity --Provide this information to the public and those entities charged with land use research, policy,
planning, and management --Build institutional cooperation in the application of this information to state and regional management
activities. GAP provides the following data and web services: The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is
a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and other conservation lands, including voluntarily
provided privately protected areas. The PADUS GAP Status Layer web service can be found at http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/PADUS_Status/MapServer
. The Land Cover Data creates a seamless data set for the contiguous United States from the four regional Gap Analysis Projects
and the LANDFIRE project. The Raster data in both ArcGIS Grid and ERDAS Imagine format is available for download at http://gis1.usgs.gov/csas/gap/viewer/land_cover/Map.aspx
. In addition to the raster datasets the data is available in Web Mapping Services (WMS) format for each of the six NVC classification
levels (Class, Subclass, Formation, Division, Macrogroup, Ecological System) at the following links. http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Class_Landuse/MapServer
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Subclass_Landuse/MapServer http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Formation_Landuse/MapServer
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Division_Landuse/MapServer http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Macrogroup_Landuse/MapServer
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_Ecological_Systems_Landuse/MapServer The GAP species range data
show a coarse representation of the total areal extent of a species or the geographic limits within which a species can be
found (Morrison and Hall 2002). The GAP species distribution models represent the areas where species are predicted to occur
based on habitat associations. A full report documenting the parameters used in each species model can be found via: http://gis1.usgs.gov/csas/gap/viewer/species/Map.aspx
Web map services for species distribution models can be accessed from: http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Birds
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Mammals http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Amphibians
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Reptiles A table listing all of GAP's available web map services
can be found here: http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/species/data/web-map-services/; abstract: The Gap Analysis Program (GAP) is
an element of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). GAP helps to implement the Department of Interior?s goals of inventory, monitoring,
research, and information transfer. GAP has three primary goals: 1 Identify conservation gaps that help keep common species
common; 2 Provide conservation information to the public so that informed resource management decisions can be made; and 3
Facilitate the application of GAP data and analysis to specific resource management activities. To implement these goals,
GAP carries out the following objectives: --Map the land cover of the United States --Map predicted distributions of vertebrate
species for the U.S. --Map the location, ownership and stewardship of protected areas --Document the representation of vertebrate
species and land cover types in areas managed for the long-term maintenance of biodiversity --Provide this information to
the public and those entities charged with land use research, policy, planning, and management --Build institutional cooperation
in the application of this information to state and regional management activities. GAP provides the following data and web
services: The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public
land ownership, management and other conservation lands, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. The PADUS
GAP Status Layer web service can be found at http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/PADUS_Status/MapServer . The Land
Cover Data creates a seamless data set for the contiguous United States from the four regional Gap Analysis Projects and the
LANDFIRE project. The Raster data in both ArcGIS Grid and ERDAS Imagine format is available for download at http://gis1.usgs.gov/csas/gap/viewer/land_cover/Map.aspx
. In addition to the raster datasets the data is available in Web Mapping Services (WMS) format for each of the six NVC classification
levels (Class, Subclass, Formation, Division, Macrogroup, Ecological System) at the following links. http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Class_Landuse/MapServer
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Subclass_Landuse/MapServer http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Formation_Landuse/MapServer
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Division_Landuse/MapServer http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_NVC_Macrogroup_Landuse/MapServer
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/gap/GAP_Land_Cover_Ecological_Systems_Landuse/MapServer The GAP species range data
show a coarse representation of the total areal extent of a species or the geographic limits within which a species can be
found (Morrison and Hall 2002). The GAP species distribution models represent the areas where species are predicted to occur
based on habitat associations. A full report documenting the parameters used in each species model can be found via: http://gis1.usgs.gov/csas/gap/viewer/species/Map.aspx
Web map services for species distribution models can be accessed from: http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Birds
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Mammals http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Amphibians
http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAT_Species_Reptiles A table listing all of GAP's available web map services
can be found here: http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/species/data/web-map-services/
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- Title U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program.
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