Spatial Vegetation Data for Colonial National Historical Park Vegetation Mapping Project

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
This shapefile is an vegetation map of Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia. It was developed by The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Natural Heritage in cooperation with North Carolina State University's Center for Earth Observation for the Northeast Region of the National Park Service. The data was created following general guidelines set forth by the USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program. Map classes are crosswalked to the U.S. National Vegetation Classification (USNVC) or level II of the Andersons land use land cover classification system. Crosswalks to the USNVC were determined on September 27, 2007. The map is based on field work performed in the summers of 2003-2005 and photo interpretation of aerial photo mosaics produced by North Carolina State University Center for Earth Observation from photography obtained in October 2001 and March 2002.
Citation
Title Spatial Vegetation Data for Colonial National Historical Park Vegetation Mapping Project
publication  Date   2008-04-01
presentationForm  mapDigital
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Natural Heritage
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Karen Patterson
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/ftp/vegmapping/colo/colo.zip
Topic Category:  environment
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
vegetation map
vegetation association
National Park Service
vegetation classification
vegetation alliance
vegetation formation
thesaurus name >
Title None
Theme keywords (theme):
vegetation
thesaurus name >
Title National Park Service Theme Category Thesaurus
Location keywords:
Colonial National Historical Park
thesaurus name >
Title National Park System Unit Name Thesaurus
Location keywords:
COLO
thesaurus name >
Title National Park System Unit Code Thesaurus
Location keywords:
James City County, Virginia
York County, Virginia
Surry County, Virginia
City of Williamsburg, Virginia
thesaurus name >
Title Geographic Names Information System
purpose:
This data set was created for Colonial National Historical Park for use in natural resource management.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data and related graphics (if available) are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Any related graphics (if available) are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not approriate to use the related graphics as data. The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from an U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service servers and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this metadata report does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey and National Park Service.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: None
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None
Spatial representation type code:  vector
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.4.1420
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -76.837592
eastBoundLongitude  -76.481971
northBoundLatitude  37.286411
southBoundLatitude  37.188356
Temporal Extent
2002-02-28
point of contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Natural Heritage
position Name Ecologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 804-786-5990
Address
217 Governor Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219 Country USA
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Vector spatial representation information

Geometric Objects
geometric Object Type  complex
geometric Object Count  544
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Coverage description

Type of coverage content 
Cell value attribute description:  
Band
descriptor Internal feature number.
sequence Identifier
name FID
Band
descriptor Feature geometry.
sequence Identifier
name Shape
Band
descriptor Unique identifer for each of the 619 polygons. Identifers are sequential whole numbers.
sequence Identifier
name POLYGON_ID
Long Wavelength  619
Short Wavelength  1
units
Band
descriptor Field to indicate what USFWS System level is represented by the map class.
sequence Identifier
name WETLAND
Band
descriptor A common or colloquial name for the map class. These names follow the Natural Communities of Virginia (Fleming et al 2006) or, if no appropriate name exists in Fleming et al (2006), the Association common name from the U.S. National Vegetation Classification (NVC) was used, or a park-specific common name was assigned. Nonstandard, park-specific units representing disturbed, cultural, or exotic vegetation were defined by Ecologists at the Division of Natural Heritage. Names for map classes not representing natural or semi-natural vegetation follow the Anderson level II land use and land cover classification scheme (Anderson et. al 1976).
sequence Identifier
name LOCAL_NAME
Band
descriptor Code for Formation level of the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name FORM_CODE
Band
descriptor Formation Name from the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name FORM_NAME
Band
descriptor Code for the Alliance level of the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name ALLIA_CODE
Band
descriptor Alliance name from the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name ALLIAN_SCI
Band
descriptor Alliance name with Latin names translated to English from the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name ALLIAN_ENG
Band
descriptor A unique identifier code for the Association level of the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification). Code is standard Global Element Code from Natureserve Central databases
sequence Identifier
name ASSOC_CODE
Band
descriptor Association Name with Latin names translated to English from the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name ASSOC_ENG
Band
descriptor Association Name from the vegetation classification standard (U.S. National Vegetation Classification)
sequence Identifier
name ASSOC_SCI
Band
descriptor Comments that make distinctions between polygons of a map class.
sequence Identifier
name COMMENTS
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Content information: feature catalog description

Included With Dataset  true
Feature Types  
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  Shapefile covers entire park area
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  Shapefile covers entire park area
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  Polygon geometry and topology were validated with ESRI ArcGIS v. 9.2 to find and correct any voids, slivers, overlapping polygons, or self-intersections.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Coordinator
organisation Name  USGS BRD Center for Biological Informatics
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (303) 202-4220
Fax 303-202-4219
Address
Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Room 8000, MS 302, Denver, Colorado, 80225
electronic Mail Address gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov
Standard ordering process
fees None
Format
Format name 
Format version 
specification > 
file Decompression Technique  Auto-generated ArcGIS service - <a href="http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/veg/index.cfm"> Vegetation Mapping Inventory</a> vegetation polygons for Colonial National Historic Park<xref><SourceHolding>449097</SourceHolding></xref>
Format
Format name 
Format version 
specification > coloveg.pdf
file Decompression Technique  Graphic of Vegetation Communities "coloveg.pdf"
Format
Format name 
Format version 
specification > colo.zip
file Decompression Technique  ZIP file containing Spatial Vegetation Data "colo.zip"
Format
Format name 
Format version 
specification > colobdy.zip
file Decompression Technique  ZIP file containing Spatial Boundary Data "colobdy.zip"
Format
Format name ZIP Compressed Archive
Format version 
specification > COLOgeodata_service.zip
file Decompression Technique  Zip file containing data and MXD for vegetation map service
Digital Transfer Options
transfer Size 
transfer Size 3818542
transfer Size 659118
transfer Size 163826
transfer Size 645798
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://irmaservices.nps.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/NRMapWorks/449097/MapServer
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://irmafiles.nps.gov/Reference/Holding/423313/coloveg.pdf
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://irmafiles.nps.gov/Reference/Holding/423314/colo.zip
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://irmafiles.nps.gov/Reference/Holding/423315/colobdy.zip
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://irmafiles.nps.gov/Reference/Holding/449097/COLOgeodata_service.zip

Metadata data stamp:  2008-04-08
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001.1-1999) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
notes: Last Metadata Review Date: 2010-05-18
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Coordinator
organisation Name  USGS BRD Center for Biological Informatics
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (303) 202-4220
Fax 303-202-4219
Address
Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Room 8000, MS 302, Denver, Colorado, 80225
electronic Mail Address gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  b14c5417-8e53-407d-9aca-f7181a00c361

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)