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    • Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of White Sands National Monument

    Metadata Updated: June 5, 2024

    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.

    Initially, the 2005 New Mexico statewide acquisition Digital Ortho-photo Quarter Quads (DOQQs) were used as the foundation imagery for the vegetation map . These DOQQs came as separate natural color and color-infrared sets which altogether gathered four separate bands of spectral reflectance values from the visible blue to the near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths at a 1-m spatial resolution. These four separate bands were combined into one file and then mosaicked together. The ortho-photo mosaic was resampled to a 2-m spatial resolution. All imagery and other spatial data layers were compiled into a geodatabase and GIS using ArcGIS 10.4 (ESRI 2008). To support the mapping process, we acquired a standard set of relevant spatial data layers including digital elevation models, digital raster graphics (DRGs) of 1:24,000-scale USGS topographic maps, roads, ownership, geology (Hawley et al. 2005; Fryberger 2001) and soils (USDA-NRCS 2017).

    Access & Use Information

    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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    References

    https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2253422

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI EDI

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2024
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
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    Identifier NPS_DataStore_2253422
    Data First Published 2005-01-01T12:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2005-01-01
    Category Imagery
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
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    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
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id e2858370-3439-46e4-94e0-92c4232c2d4a
    Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
    Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2253422
    Old Spatial -106.47963,32.6563034,-106.136909,32.87312
    Program Code 010:118, 010:119
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > National Park Service
    Related Documents https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2253422
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 78295d4f1859e0efcefaf031a49aa6ccf38818f10e0fb4576503693ae925f386
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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