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

    Metadata Updated: September 14, 2025

    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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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 14, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI NPS DCAT-US

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 14, 2025
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/nps-datastore-2253422
    Data First Published 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Category Imagery
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/nps-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
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    Harvest Source Id d917c1a9-26b7-43ea-b8c5-c77ec750a850
    Harvest Source Title DOI NPS DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2253422
    Old Spatial -106.47963,32.6563034,-106.136909,32.87312
    Program Code 010:119, 010:118
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 851283d5c706dcf03d64f75147f2825858155b0516cacab9f6f7f3e9c61285bf
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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