This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

The imagery we used was acquired by Digital- Globe Inc.’s Quickbird satellite on August 27, 2006, as a new, tasked acquisition for this project. Image preprocessing and initial interpretation to the formation level were done at the Arizona Remote Sensing Center, University of Arizona. The imagery product purchased was the “Ortho-ready Standard” bundle of four spectral bands (blue, green, red and near-infrared) at 2.4-m spatial resolution, plus the broadband panchromatic data at 0.6-m resolution. This imagery is intended to be orthorectified by the user and is only coarsely geo-registered, with a nominal spatial accuracy of 23 m CE90—meaning that 90% of features in the imagery must be within 23 meters of their true location on the ground.