Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway Vegetation Mapping Project - Spatial Vegetation Data

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The geographic information system (GIS) format spatial data set of vegetation for Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway (SACN) was created for the National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Inventory Program (VIP). The SACN administrative boundary covers an area of nearly 39,500 ha. The project boundary for the SACN vegetation mapping project covers an areas of just over 68,200 ha with the approximate 300 m buffer. The map classification scheme used to create the vegetation data set is designed to represent local vegetation types at the finest level possible using the National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVCS) Version 2. Physiognomic information was also recorded, including height (woody vegetation), canopy density, and coverage patterns. The vegetation data set was developed by interpreting aerial photographs collected in October of 2005 and extensive field surveys. Individuals who cooperated in this project include; USGS Center for Biological Informatics, National Park Service (NPS) Biological Resources Management Division, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, NPS SACN, and NatureServe. The vegetation data are distributed as a polygon feature class in the geodatabase for the project, stored in Universal Transverse Mercator zone 15 mapping coordinates, North American Datum 1983.
Citation
Title Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway Vegetation Mapping Project - Spatial Vegetation Data
Publication Date  Date   2012-06
Time Period  Date   2005-10-10
Topic Category:  geoscientificInformation
Keywords:
Theme Keywords
National Scenic Riverway
NPS Vegetation Inventory Program
National Park Service
U.S. Geological Survey
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway
Vegetation Map
Land Cover
Land Use
Photointerpretation
Photo Interpretation
Vegetation Mapping
National Vegetation Classification Standard
National Vegetation Classification System
NVCS
U.S. National Vegetation Classification
USNVC
National Vegetation Classification
NVC
SACN
thesaurus name >
Title none
revision  Date   2015-07-19
Theme Keywords
Land Use / Cover
Monitoring
Remote Sensing
Biology
thesaurus name >
Title National Park Service Theme Category Thesaurus
revision  Date   2015-07-19
Place Keywords
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway
United States of America
Wisconsin
Minnesota
SACN
thesaurus name >
Title none
revision  Date   2015-07-19
Place Keywords
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway
thesaurus name >
Title National Park System Unit Name Thesaurus
revision  Date   2015-07-19
Place Keywords
SACN
thesaurus name >
Title National Park System Unit Code Thesaurus
revision  Date   2015-07-19
Theme keywords (theme):
Survey
thesaurus name >
Title Activity > Observation
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Height
Density
thesaurus name >
Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Geography
thesaurus name >
Title Science Domain > Earth Science
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Buffer
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Chemical
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Spatial Datum
thesaurus name >
Title Resource Type > Spatial Data
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Vegetation
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Biological Material
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Cover
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Geosphere
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
USGS
thesaurus name >
Title Organization > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Land Cover
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Earth Surface
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Material (Other)
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
CLASS
thesaurus name >
Title Equipment > Instrument
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
FIELD SURVEY
thesaurus name >
Title Equipment > platform
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
Biology
thesaurus name >
Title Science Domain > Biology
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
Theme keywords (theme):
National Park
Canopy
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Environmental Feature
publication  Date   2017-01-16
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 09:01:00 UTC 2017
purpose:
The NPS VIP is an effort to classify, describe, and map existing vegetation of national park units. Managed by the NPS Biological Resources Management Division, the NPS VIP provides baseline vegetation information for the NPS Natural Resource I&M Program. The USGS Vegetation Characterization Program lends a cooperative role in the NPS VIP and serves the data sets on the Internet. Vegetation layers and associated information support a wide variety of resource assessment, park management, and planning needs. They also provide structure for framing and answering critical scientific questions about vegetation communities and their relation to environmental processes across the landscape.
Resource language:  eng
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -92.899688
eastBoundLongitude  -91.134905
northBoundLatitude  46.270006
southBoundLatitude  44.728931
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Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (303) 202-4220
Fax 303-202-4219
Address
electronic Mail Address gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name ScienceBase Item Summary Page
URL: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/545288d2e4b0d48d9fb034a9
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Link to the ScienceBase Item Summary page for the item described by this metadata record
target application profile  Web Browser
Linkage for online resource
name HTML
URL: http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/parks/sacn.html
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description ScienceBase WebLink
target application profile  Web Browser
Linkage for online resource
name Download Attached Files
URL: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/545288d2e4b0d48d9fb034a9
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Download Link
target application profile  Web Browser

Metadata data stamp:  2014-11-03T22:14:38Z
Metadata Constraints
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
none
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  USGS Biological Resources Division, Center for Biological Informatics
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (303) 202-4220
Fax 303-202-4229
Address
electronic Mail Address gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
position Name Resource Mapping Team Leader
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (608) 783-6451
Fax (608) 783-8058
Address
Metadata contact - metadataContact
organisation Name  USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (303) 202-4220
Fax 303-202-4219
Address
electronic Mail Address gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov
Metadata contact - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54603
Contact information
Address
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO19115
standard version:  1.0
Metadata record identifier:  545288d2e4b0d48d9fb034a9
URI for dataset described: > https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/545288d2e4b0d48d9fb034a9

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)