Cape Cod National Seashore USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis 2009 vector digital data Wellfleet, MA National Park Service http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/caco/cacogeodata.zip http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/?p=default&b=base1&q=http%3A%2F%2Fgis1.usgs.gov%2Farcgis%2Frest%2Fservices%2Fnvcp%2FCape_Cod_NS%2FMapServer&x=-7802102.46735&y=5137751.329599999&l=10&sc=0&v= http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nvcp/Cape_Cod_NS/MapServer L.A. Sneddon, R.E. Zaremba, and M. Adams 201010 report Philadelphia, PA National Park Service Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR--2010/147 http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/parks/caco.html doi:10.5066/F7VH5KSS Vegetation within the Cape Cod N.S. based on 2001 true color aerial images with reference to 2000 color IR aerial photos To characterize vegetation communities using the U.S. National Vegetation Classification Standard (2007) and to provide a comprehensive vegetation coverage for Cape Cod N.S. The shapefile was imported into a geodatabase by the USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis 2001 ground condition Complete Irregular Cape Cod National Seashore and environs -70.247089 -69.927522 42.085006 41.672707 None vegetation vegetation map vegetation association vegetation alliance vegetation formation vegetation classification botany land cover National Park Service Theme Category Thesaurus Vegetation ISO 19115 Topic Category biota None Massachusetts Cape Cod Cape Cod National Seashore National Park System Unit Name Thesaurus Cape Cod National Seashore National Park System Unit Code Thesaurus CACO None Standardized National Vegetation Classification System vegetation classification alliance community association Kingdom Plantae None None Mark Adams Cape Cod National Seashore GIS Specialist mailing

99 Marconi Site Rd

Wellfleet MA 02652 USA 508-487-3262 x113 508-487-7153 mark_adams@nps.gov http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/caco/cacovegmap.pdf Vegetation map; low resolution for web browsing. PDF Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000 Accuracy assessed by Natureserve. Aggregated attributes achieve a minimum accuracy of 80% (field name: AGGREG_NAME). None quality verified Positional accuracy based on MASS GIS 2001 DOQS (http://www.mass.gov/mgis/colororthos2001.htm) with estimated horzontal accuracy of 1-2 meters. Cape Cod National Seashore 2001 remote sensing images A set of five orthorectified color infrared MrSID images of Cape Cod National Seashore: ntruro-mosaic5-7.sid, ntruro-mosaic-8-10.sid, nwwellf-mos-4-7.sid, pamet-mos-4-7.sid and PROV-mosaic11-14.sid. Produced from color infrared photos taken October 4, 2000 by James Sewall Company, Old Town, Maine. Orthorectification accomplished with IMAGINE Orthobase software to result in about 1-meter pixel resolution. This set of photomosaics was originally intended to be used for photo interpretation to produce a vegetation map of Cape Cod National Seashore. They were ultimately found to be unsatisfactory for the intended purpose due to color distortions and uneven horizontal accuracy, however, they were used to aid in land cover interpretation and for spatial reference of vegetation polygons based on Cape Cod Vegetation Classification categories (2004). 12000 digital orthophotos 20001004 ground condition 2000 IR orthomosaics used for cross reference Cape Cod National Seashore 200406 remote-sensing image (raster digital data) A set of two orthorectified true color images of Cape Cod National Seashore developed from digital true color aerial images obtained from MassGIS: cape1.sid and cape2.sid. Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. of Philadelphia, PA flew the photography in April 2001. The source imagery was acquired with Leica RC-30 calibrated aerial mapping cameras at a flying height of approximately 5,000 meters (15,000 feet). The medium resolution true color images have a horizontal accuracy of +- 3 meters at the 95% confidence level at the nominal scale of 1:5,000. 5000 raster data files 200104 ground condition 2001 true-color orthomosaics Aerial view of Cape Cod National Seashore Photo interpretation to delineate discrete vegetation and land use types by Donna Peterson, U. Mass, Amherst, Resource Mapping Project Office. Preliminary working classification system developed by U Mass. Photointerpreted polygons digitzed on screen at U. Mass using 2000 IR orthomosaics (created at URI using ERDAS orthobase) and 2001 true-color orthomosaics from MassGIS program. Tile edge topology and mismatched polygons across tiles corrected by CACO GIS office by referencing original photography. Cape Cod classification system and key developed from the U.S. National Vegetation Classification (2004; revised 2007) by Lesley Sneddon, Natureserve/Nature Conservancy. Working classification types crosswalked to NVCS by Steve Smith (NPS CACO). NVCS system field verified, data stored in PLOTS database. US National Vegetation Classification Standard (2007). Accuracy assessment and aggregation of types performed by Robert Zaremba and Leslie Sneddon to meet 80% minimum accuracy standard. 2004-2008 The shapefile was imported into a geodatabase by the USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis. 201103 Metadata imported. 201103 Vector G-polygon 3340 Universal Transverse Mercator 19 0.999600 -69.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.000100 0.000100 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 CACO_VegPolys Feature class attribute table National Park Service OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Poly_ID Unique identifier for each polygon NPS Unique plot code. MapUnit_ID Code used to represent the Map Unit NPS Map unit code. MapUnit_Name Full Map Unit name NPS Map unit association common name. X_Centroid X Coordinate (UTM Easting) of the centroid of the polygon NPS Easting coordinate. Y_Centroid Y Coordinate (UTM Northing) of the centroid of the polygon NPS Northing coordinate. Acres Area (unknown units) ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Hectares Perimeter (unknown units) ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Shape_Length Length of feature in internal units. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Shape_Area Area of feature in internal units squared. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. rc_VegPolys_tVegMapInfo Defines relationship between Veg polygons and basic vegetation attributes National Park Service USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

Denver Federal Center, Building 810, MS 302

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Denver Federal Center, Building 810, MS 302

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