U.S. Geological Survey, Southern Colorado Plateau Network National Park Service 1298 Knoles Drive, Northern Arizona University building 56, Room 140, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011 Unknown raster digital data USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Petrified Forest NP Vegetation Mapping Project Unknown U.S. Geological Survey, http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/pefo/pefoortho.zip doi:10.5066/F7R20ZB6 Color infrared (CIR) aerial photographs were acquired as baseline imagery data to produce vegetation spatial database coverages of Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) and environs. Aerial photos were collected on September 13, 14, 17, and 19 of 2003 and June 17 of 2004 at a scale of 1:6,000 The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in coordination with Kansas State University, has produced spatially referenced aerial photo mosaic images of the aerial photographs for both the north and south portions of the park and their environs. The photo mosaics are raster datasets compressed with ERMapper (ERDAS), projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), Zone 12, using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The aerial photo mosaics were produced as by-products from the Petrified Forest National Park Vegetation Mapping Project, USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program. U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) Aerial Photo Field Office (APFO) and the U. S. Bureau of Reclaimation (BOR) were contracted to aquire new aerial imagery for Petrified Forest NP. The APFO provided one set of imagery, 9 in x 9 in true color aerial photo contact prints at a scale of 1:6,000 of the park and environs. The BOR provided an additional set of color digital orthophoto quarter-quadrangle photography at a scale of 1:6,000. Mounted in a USFWS Partenavia twin-engine aircraft, aerial photographs were collected using a Ziess Jena LMK 2000 camera loaded with KODAK AEROCHROME II Infrared Film 2443. To attain stereo viewing and full aerial coverage, parameters were set to collect aerial photos with a 50-60% forward-lap and a 20 -40% side-lap. The 1:6,000-scale photographs were collected at an elevation above ground level of 4,000 ft. --- The photo mission required thirty-six flight lines to cover the north and south portions of the park. In all, 2,216 aerial photos were collected on September 13, 14, 17, and 19 of 2003 and June 17 of 2004. Photo Flight Geomatics, Tucson, Arizona processed the original 9 x 9-inch positive transparency film, and produced two sets of contact prints. --- One set of contact prints will reside at the park and one at the SCPN upon project completion. Geo-referenced aerial photo mosaic images were also made for the both photo sets, supported with metadata. --- The aerial photo mosaics were generated from individual scans (at 500 dpi) of the original scaled aerial photograph print. The scanned images (in TIFF format) were referenced to 2 geo-data sources using ERMapper software (a geospatial imagery processing application for GIS); USGS 1:24,000-scale digital orthophoto quadrangles (DOQ) and USGS 7.5-minute 10 m resolution (30 m where 10 m not available) digital elevation models (DEM). The individual photographs were mosaicked using an automated algorithm process in ERMapper. A 24:1 compression was applied to the mosaics using ERMapper (Version 7.1). --- Special notes: Some dark areas of the original hard copy photographs (e.g., from shadow casts, dark open water) are represented in the mosaic image as pure black-colored pixels or pure white-colored pixels, resulting in minor loss of true imagery data. 20090131 ground condition Complete None planned Petrified Forest National Park and environs -109.923389 -109.669550 35.191783 34.775765 None Aerial Photographs Aerial Photography Color Infra-red Aerial Photo Mosaic Petrified Forest National Park Vegetation Mapping Project USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program None Petrified Forest National Park PEFO Puerco River Pilot Rock Rainbow Forest Crystal Forest Navajo County Apache County Arizona USA Those using the spatial database should understand the data and determine for themselves the fitness of the data prior to use. The spatial accuracy of any given point on these geo-referenced image mosaics does not necessarily meet USGS accuracy standards for DOQ/DEM. Although it can be assumed that spatial accuracy meets those of the base maps used to produce these geo-referenced images, landscape relief, inherent distortions of aerial photographs, human error in using referencing software may all contribute to inconsistent geospatial accuracies in some areas. --- 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. GIS Software U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center Unknown mailing and physical address

2255 N Gemini Drive

Flagstaff Arizona 86001 USA (928) 556-7094 (928) 556-7092 URL address: <http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/> USGS Southwest Biological Science Center Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770 U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, 2255 N Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, Arizona 86001 20090131 document USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Petrified Forest NP Vegetation Mapping Project Unknown U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics The Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) Vegetation Mapping Project is an initiative of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Program (VMP). (For more information on VMP, see larger work citation below.) The goals of the project are to adequately describe and map plant communities of PEFO and immediate surroundings and to provide the NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program, resource managers, and biological researchers with useful baseline vegetation information. The USGS Southwest Biological Sciences Center through Northern Arizona University (NAU), have mapped and classified the existing plant communities at PEFO and extended surroundings. --- Common to all VMP mapping projects, the three major components of the EFMO Vegetation Mapping Project are vegetation classification, vegetation mapping, and map accuracy assessment. Two sets of aerial photographs were collected during September 13, 14, 17, and 19 of 2003 and June 17 of 2004, and the mapping project was officially inaugurated spring 2003 with a scoping meeting where partners discussed the project's objectives, goals, and methods. Photointerpreters, ecologists, and botanists collaborated to describe National Vegetation Classification System (NVCS) plant associations (communities) and determine how best to map them using the aerial photographs. Plant community descriptions were derived from analyses of vegetation sampling data at PEFO. These plant communities, along with NVCS Formation vegetation units depicting human disturbance and cultivated lands and with units describing human-made structures, were interpreted and mapped using aerial photographs and mirror stereoscopes. Spatial database coverages were produced of the north and south sections of the park and their respective environs using state-of-the-art photogrammetric and GIS software. An accuracy assessment of the map coverages were performed on map classes representing NVCS plant communities. --- The PEFO project delivers many geospatial and vegetation data products in hard copy and digital formats, including an in-depth project summary report discussing methods and results, plant community descriptions and dichotomous key, representative ground photos of plant communities, a database containing the plot samples and accuracy assessment, field data sheets, aerial photograph prints and images (including geo-referenced photo mosaics), map classification and descriptions, and spatial coverages and maps of plant communities, fieldwork locations, aerial photo indexes, and project boundaries (each supported with metadata reports). All geospatial products are in Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 12, using North American Datum of 1983. More VMP information and products of completed park mapping projects are on the Internet at <http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/index.html>. <http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/parks/pefo.html> U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Information 200305 document USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Overview Unknown U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics Overview of USGS - NPS Vegetation Mapping Program (taken from <http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/about.html>, May 2003): The USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program is a cooperative effort by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Park Service (NPS) to classify, describe, and map vegetation communities in more than 270 national park units across the United States. This landmark program is both the first to provide national-scale descriptions of vegetation for a federal agency and the first to create national vegetation standards for its data products. Its goal is to meet specific information needs identified by the National Park Service. --- The vegetation mapping program is an important part of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program, a long-term effort to develop baseline data for all national park units that have a natural resource component. It is managed by the USGS Center for Biological Informatics, a unique information center designed to help scientists, land managers, the public, and others locate and apply biological information. --- Program activities are based on peer-reviewed, objective science. Comprehensive vegetation information is provided at national and regional levels, while also serving local management needs of individual parks. Stringent quality control procedures ensure that products are accurate and consistent for initial inventory purposes and replicable for monitoring purposes. The spatially enabled digital products produced by the program are available on the World Wide Web. --- Program scientists have developed data collection procedures for classification, mapping, accuracy assessment, and use of existing data. Program products meet Federal Geographic Data Committee standards for vegetation classification and metadata, and national standards for spatial accuracy and data transfer. Standards include a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 hectares and classification accuracy of 80% for each map class. Nature Serve, an important partner in the USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping program, is the caretaker of the National Vegetation Classification System, which is used by the program to classify vegetation communities. --- A report of project methods and results is provided at completion of individual projects. Project results include a rich set of data and information for each park project, as follows: --- Spatial Data: Aerial photography, Map classification, Map classification description and key, Spatial database of vegetation communities, Hardcopy maps of vegetation communities, Metadata for spatial databases, Complete accuracy assessment of spatial data, Vegetation Information. --- Vegetation classification: Dichotomous field key of vegetation classes, Formal description for each vegetation class, Ground photos of vegetation classes, Field data in database format. <http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/index.html> None None Metadata imported. C:\DOCUME~1\jrn38\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml6.tmp 20091229 Raster Pixel 166401 82054 Universal Transverse Mercator 12 0.999600 -111.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 row and column 0.27567528 0.27567528 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 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/pefo.html Internet Access None 20091229 20100604 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