Pennsylvania Science Office of The Nature Conservancy 20050930 vector digital data http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/jofl/jofl.zip Pennsylvania Science Office of The Nature Conservancy 20050930 document doi:10.5066/F7W66HR3 Vegetation map of Johnstown Flood National Memorial provides local park-specific names for vegetation types, as well as crosswalks to the National Vegetation Classification System (NVCS), including association, alliance and formation level attributes. Crosswalks to the NVCS were determined on March 14, 2005. To provide an up-to-date digital geospatial vegetation database containing base line information about the park's vegetation associations to the park's resource managers in order to ensure effective, long-term management of the natural resources held in trust. 20050930 20050930 Complete None planned Johnstown Flood National Memorial and environs -78.782283 -78.766517 40.353878 40.333856 none vegetation association vegetation classification National Park Service vegetation map vegetation alliance vegetation formation none Johnstown Flood National Memorial Pennsylvania none Standardized National Vegetation Classification System vegetation classification alliance community association Kingdom Plantae none none Pennsylvania Science Office of The Nature Conservancy Ecologist mailing and physical address

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Middletown Pennsylvania 10755 USA (717) 948-3962 (717) 948-3957 Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.2.0.700 Pennsylvania Science Office of The Nature Conservancy 20050930 document The Kappa index for the vegetation association map was 80.2+/- 12.9%, with the overall percent accuracy calcuated at 84.4% Check Topology script was run on shapefile in ArcView 3.2. No silvers or gaps were found. Shapefile covers entire park area. Formation-level vegetation map was delineated from the 2003 digital aerial photo mosaic. Seventeen vegetation plots were sampled in the park. These data were analyzed to determine the number of distribution of vegetation associations present in the park. The formation-level vegetation map was then revised and attributed with the association names. Thirty-four thematic accuracy assessment points were randomly placed within the association map, following a stratefied random sampling plan. Based on the accuracy assessment the association map was revised further. C:\NPS 6 Parks\NPS 6 parks GIS\JOFL GIS\jofl_veg_comm_final.shp.xml 20050930 Metadata imported. C:\NPS 6 Parks\Progress Reports\CD Deliverable 2005-03-31\GIS Files\jofl_veg_map_assoc_2005.shp.xml 20050930 Vector G-polygon 67 Universal Transverse Mercator 17 0.999600 -81.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.000004 0.000004 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 jofl_veg_map_association_2005 Shapefile attribute table Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. FORM_NAME formation level vegetation type National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System formation-level vegetation type names FORM_CODE code for formation level vegetation type National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System code for formation-level vegetation types LOCAL_NAME local park-specific name for vegetation type Fike 1999, Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program, National Vegetation Classification System park-specific local names for vegetation association ALLIA_CODE code for alliance-level vegetation type National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System code for alliance-level vegetation types ALLIA_SCI scientific name for alliance-level vegetation type National Vegetation System National Vegetation Classification System scientific name for alliance-level vegetation types ALLIA_ENG English name for alliance-level vegetation type National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System english name for alliance-level vegetation types ASSOC_SCI scientific name for vegetation association National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System scientific name for vegetation associations ASSOC_ENG English name for vegetation association National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System English name for vegetation associations ASSOC_CODE code for vegetation association National Vegetation Classification System National Vegetation Classification System CEGL code for vegetation associations ALLIANCEID record number of polygon Add Record Number script in ArcView 3.2 unqiue number for each polygon VEG_STRC vegetation structure and leaf phenology of vegetation in polygon Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program Leaf phenology and vegetation structure of vegetation in polygon USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

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