New York Natural Heritage Program 200204 1.0 vector digital data http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/fiis/fiisplot.zip doi:10.5066/F76971HC This dataset was compiled to provide users with the geographic locations of the vegetation plots used to create the Fire Island Vegetation Map classification system. The purpose of this data is to provide the managers and researchers on Fire Island with an accurate spatially referenced dataset to assist in their efforts. 200007 ground condition as of 2000 Complete None planned Fire Island Natioanl Seashore and on the West by the Robert Moses State Park and on the East by the Smith Point County Park. -73.301832 -72.756856 40.781410 40.612784 None vegetation classification National Vegetation Classification Standard vegetation sampling barrier island coast None Fire Island William Floyd Estate None These data were designed to identify and map vegetation polygons only. They are not appropriate for other uses such as legal property boundary identification, tax assessment, etc. Conservation Management Institute Scott Klopfer GIS & Remote Sensning Division Coordinator mailing and physical address

203 West Roanoke Street

Blacksburg Virginia 24061 USA 540 231 7348 none 540 231 7019 sklopfer@vt.edu 8-5 Monday through Friday EST email preferred http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/fiis/fiisplots.pdf 208 Kbyte, locations of vegetation plot samples; low resolution for web browsing. PDF Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) ; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.0.642 Data and locations were collected on a GPS and differentially corrected. The vegetation values collected were largely qulitative and based on the experience of the observer. These data were only used as a guide for the photointerpreter to assign vegetation asociations from the phtography. Points were created from GPS data recorded in the field. All vegetation plots conducted as part of the Fire Island Vegetation Mapping Project are included as are some plots from previous NYNHP work in the area. Location information was taken with a GPS and differentially corrected. No quantitative report of accuracy is available, but subsequent field visits to these same points indicate that accuracy is within 5 m at most locations. These data were taken as locations with attributes in the field. The points were differentially corrected and imported to the GIS. The vegetation information along with the point location were used to guide assignment of delineated polygons to vegetation associations. 200109 0 Vector Entity point 62 Universal Transverse Mercator 18 0.999600 -75.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.000064 0.000064 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 fiis_plot Shapefile attribute table. Field plots data base information at various spots on the entire length of Fire Island. These attributes included species, height, and estimates of percent cover for a particular polygon. Plots were georeferenced to within 5 m using GPS unit and differentially corrected. The plot sampling methodology used by the NYNHP on Fire Island follow the methodology developed by The Nature Conservancy and the network of Natural Heritage Programs (Sneddon 1994, Grossman et al. 1998, Edinger et al. 2000). FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. AREA Area of feature in internal units squared. ESRI Area is always zero for point coverages. Values are automatically generated. PERIMETER Code assigned by NYNHP New York Natural Heritage Program Perimeter is always zero for point coverages. Values are automatically generated. New York Natural Heritage Program Vegetation Classification Codeset New York Natural Heritage Program PLOT_ Internal feature number. ESRI. Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. PLOT_ID User-defined feature number. ESRI. Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. ATTRIBUTE Description of the attributes New York Natural Heritage Program Attribute names. NYHP NYNHP Vegetation classification New York Natural Heritage Program Vegetation type from NYNHP FINAL_CLAS Final association classification the plot represents NatureServe & The Nature Conservancy Textual description of vegetation association X_EASTING Easting coordinate of site location. New York Natural Heritage Program Easting coordinate. Y_NORTHING Northing coordinate of site location. New York Natural Heritage Program Northing coordinate. POLYGONID Unknown field created by originator but not documented New York Natural Heritage Program Numerical. SCALE Unknown field created by originator but not documented. New York Natural Heritage Program Numerical. ANGLE Unknown field created by originator but not documented. New York Natural Heritage Program Numerical. USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

Denver Federal Center, Building 810, MS 302

Denver Colorado 80225 (303) 202-4220 303-202-4219 gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov Downloadable Data 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. HTML http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/parks/fiis.html Internet Access None 20020426 20100520 USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

Denver Federal Center, Building 810, MS 302

Denver Colorado 80225 (303) 202-4220 303-202-4219 gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001.1-1999 http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/metadata/index.html