National Park Service (NPS), Southern Colorado Plateau Network (SCPN) Unpublished material raster digital data http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/meve/meveortho.zip doi:10.5066/F7T43R14 As part of a 2006-2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Program to create a digital database of vegetation for Mesa Verde National Park (MEVE), a mosaic of 1:12,000-scale true-color DOQQs acquired September 15, 2003 by Horizons Inc., Rapid City, SD, was created using ERDAS Imagine Version 9.2 and LizardTech's GeoExpress 7. Processing was done for the USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program and the NPS Southern Colorado Plateau Network by the USGS Fort Collins Science Center's GIS and Remote Sensing Team in 2007 The digital orthophoto data provided the reference earth coordinates to orthorectify the aerial photographs for the Mesa Verde National Park. 20031015 Date Fugro Horizons, Inc. acquired the aerial photographs. Complete None planned Mesa Verde National Park and environs -108.573098 -108.243856 37.384908 37.115145 ISO 19115 Topic Category imageryBaseMapsEarthCover None DOQQ Digital Ortho Quarter Quad Digital orthophotography mosaic None Mesa Verde National Park MEVE Colorado CO These data and the associated metadata are to be considered DRAFT until reviewed, edited, and distributed by the SCPN Program Inventory and Monitoring Program. Data should be acquired through the SCPN Inventory and Monitoring Program. These data and the associated metadata are to be considered DRAFT until reviewed, edited, and distributed by the SCPN Program Inventory and Monitoring Program. Data should be acquired through the SCPN Inventory and Monitoring Program. It is assumed that the user has read the associated metadata and understands the lineage, coding, and completeness of the data. National Park Service (NPS), Southern Colorado Plateau Network (SCPN) Network Coordinator mailing address

P.O. Box 5765

Flagstaff AZ 86011 USA (928) 523-9280 (928) 523-7272 Fugro Horizons, Inc. 3600 Jet Drive Rapid City, South Dakota 57703 Telephone: 605-343-0305 The dataset is in ERDAS Imagine format and MrSID format developed by LizardTech, and converted from ERDAS Imagine format to MrSID using LizardTech's GeoExpress 7. Unknown Unknown The ortho-photography was sent to the Fort Collins Science Center in three files: mosaic_1.img, mosaic_2.img, and mosaic_3.img. Because the background values were 0 (zero) and 255, the values greater than 0 and less than 255 were extracted for each band, added together, and used as a mask to extract the image data with background values reduced to 0. The three resulting files were mosaicked together using LizardTech's GeoExpress 7 software in lossless mode. 20080613 GIS and Remote Sensing Team Fort Collins Science Center U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

2150 Centre Ave., Bldg C

Fort Collins CO 80526 - 8118 USA (970) 226-9344 N/A (970) 226-9230 8:00 - 1:00 p.m., Monday to Friday Raster Pixel 29179 28429 Universal Transverse Mercator 12 0.999600 -111.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 row and column 1.000000 1.000000 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 For DOQ's from panchromatic source each pixel contains an 8-bit gray-scale value between 0-255. A value of 0 represents the color black while a value of 255 represents the color white. All values between 0 and 255 are repesented as a shade of gray varying from black to white. For color-infrared and natural color DOQs' a digital number from 0 to 255 will also be asssigned to each pixel but that number will refer to a color look-up table which will contain the RGB red, blue and green (RGB) values, each from 0 to 255, for that digital number. Areas where the rectification process is incomplete due to incomplete data (i.e., lack of elevation data, gaps), are represented with the numeric value of 0. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, guide for digital orthophotos: Reston, VA. A hypertext version is available at: <URL:http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs05701.html>. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1992, Standards for digital orthophotos: Reston, VA. 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/meve.html Internet Access None 20080623 20100603 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