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Vegetation - Lower Feather River Update - 2018 [ds2891]

Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

The Feather River was mapped using 2018 National Agricultural Inventory Program (NAIP) imagery, and using a classification developed by the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) based in the National Vegetation Classification System (NVCS). A report describing mapping methodology for a similar project can be found here: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=184992. For more information about California's classification, see https://vegetation.cnps.org/.Changes in a remap effort can occur due to several factors, some due to physical change and some due to non-physical change. Examples of factors that represent physical change are: stand maturation or decadence, fire, erosion, deposition, anthropogenic disturbances such as scraping/clearing, urban development, agricultural development, and restoration. Non-physical changes include: improvement in imagery quality, incorrect original mapping, imagery shifts, improvement of older linework, and change in level mapped (classification). Imagery quality continues to improve with time, which allows the photointerpreter to better determine which species are present and in what amounts to determine its best classification. A photointerpreter could also disagree with the previous mapper’s decisions and may change the classification in the remapping effort. A more subtle map change, which does not affect the acreages significantly, is when the photointerpreter improves old linework to make it better fit the classification type visually. Also, when the NAIP imagery is ortho-rectified, in some years it does not perfectly align with the year it is being compared to and linework needs to be shifted/redrawn. Lastly, a photointerpreter may have remapped an Alliance at the Group level due to lack of confidence at the Alliance level, and vice versa the interpreter may have mapped an Alliance that was previously mapped at Group level due to better confidence at that level. All of these factors should be taken into consideration when using and comparing these data to previous efforts.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Maintainer
Identifier 7649c9c3-76b5-4868-b1ee-b63c94f692cc
Data First Published 2022-01-28T23:48:45.000Z
Data Last Modified 2024-10-04T20:44:51.132Z
Category Natural Resources
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724164837
Harvest Object Id 2cbcd7b6-a145-4980-93fe-a8241a4da621
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash c09a21a0f94ea151f8f4db7414deb7ea2792b488978a9ad11b25126d4af34f48
Source Schema Version 1.1

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