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    • Central Mojave Desert Vegetation Mapping Project, California, 1997-1999

    Metadata Updated: July 6, 2024

    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data at Risk (DaR) team partnered with the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) to preserve and release tabular data, shapefiles and field photographs of the Central Mojave Desert from 1997-1999. The data were originally collected as part of an effort through the Desert Managers Group (DMG) to develop scientific information on the distribution and characteristics of vegetation in the eastern Mojave Desert of California. This data preservation effort recovers information from obsolete geospatial files, database files, and field photographs and releases it all in open-source formats. The data made available in this release provide historic context on the species composition and distributions of various plant communities in the Central Mojave Desert which can be used to contextualize changes in vegetation composition of the Mojave Desert ecosystem. Aside from this project level summary, the pieces of this data release are as follows: -A Field Data ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Field-Data-Metadata.xml) and tabular field data (5 CSV files, Field_Data.zip) -A Plots Points and Photographs ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Plots-Points-and-Photographs-Metadata.xml), a plots points locations shapefile (zipped shapefile, plots_points.zip), photographs (12 zip folders of TIFF files, Mojave_Images_Plots-##-##.zip) and a crosswalk resource to relate the images to plots points (Mojave_Images_Crosswalk.csv) -A Special Features ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Spec-Feat-Points-Metadata.xml) and a special features points shapefile (zipped shapefile, spec_feat_points.zip) -A Mojave Vegetation Polygons ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Mojave-Veg-Polygons-Metadata.xml), a Mojave vegetation polygons shapefile (zipped shapefile, mojave_veg_polygons.zip) and a label codes sheet that provides context for the vegetation classifications (LabelCodes.csv)

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024

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    Harvested from DOI EDI

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024
    Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
    Maintainer
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    Identifier USGS:5a5f6eb7e4b06e28e9bfc2b5
    Data Last Modified 20220923
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:12
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://datainventory.doi.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 5e0b7125-d0e6-48ee-a08d-e03dbdb86792
    Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
    Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -118.01,33.77,-114.69,37.33
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 092c86fc8cc7cdf2ee781cbe14555502e682cd1d5ba701bd7f23b453d431e51e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -118.01, 33.77, -118.01, 37.33, -114.69, 37.33, -114.69, 33.77, -118.01, 33.77}

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