a13cdbc9-07ef-47ab-aecf-8502d620f765 eng; USA utf8 dataset EnviroAtlas Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, EnviroAtlas Geospatial Data Owner (919) 541-3832 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park NC 27709 EnviroAtlas@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas pointOfContact 2025-01-08 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO 19115:2003/Cor.1:2006(E) EnviroAtlas - C-CAP Land Cover (2010-2012), EnviroAtlas version - Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands 2019-12-27 publication U.S. EPA Office of Research & Development (ORD) - National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Research Triangle Park NC publisher US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) originator This EnviroAtlas dataset consists of the 2010 Puerto Rico and 2012 U.S. Virgin Islands C-CAP (Coastal Change Analysis Program) rasters, modified for use in EnviroAtlas. The original C-CAP rasters were produced by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Office for Coastal Management. In the EnviroAtlas version, the C-CAP rasters have been mosaicked together. Fields containing equivalent NLCD (National Land Cover Database) classes have been added so that processes used to develop NLCD-based EnviroAtlas datasets can be more easily applied to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; the colormap has also been modified to match the NLCD colormap. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets). The purpose of this EnviroAtlas dataset is to provide foundational land cover data that can be used to develop EnviroAtlas datasets for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The overall goal of EnviroAtlas is to employ and develop the best available science to map indicators of ecosystem services production, demand, and drivers for the nation. completed EnviroAtlas Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, EnviroAtlas Geospatial Data Owner (919) 541-3832 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park NC 27709 EnviroAtlas@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas pointOfContact asNeeded Ecosystem Environment theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus Ecosystem Services EnviroAtlas Environment Environmental Atlas Land Cover theme EnviroAtlas Ecosystem Services EnviroAtlas Environment Environmental Atlas Land Cover theme User Puerto Rico United States Virgin Islands place None https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html otherRestrictions Use Constraints: None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currency and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None PUBLIC https://project-open-data.github.io/schema/#accessLevel Standard Technical Controls eng; USA environment -67.951455 -64.565191 17.673736 18.516091 2010-01-01 2012-01-01 The C-CAP raster for Puerto Rico does not provide complete coverage for Puerto Rico HUCs. There is no C-CAP data for the Isla de Mona (an island that is an uninhabited wildlife refuge between the main island of PR and the Dominican Republic) and Northern Culebra, a smaller island between the main island of PR and the US Virgin Islands. GAP land cover provides more complete coverage, but does not correspond as closely to the NLCD classes. It can be used instead of or in addition to C-CAP data. true Entity and Attribute Information Entity and Attribute Overview: All processing was done in ArcGIS 10.3.1. The Anderson Level 1 to C-CAP categories crosswalk from https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/ccap-faq-highres.pdf (p. 3) was used to identify equivalent NLCD categories. Palustrine Forested Wetland (13), Palustrine Shrub-Scrub Wetland (14), Estuarine Forested Wetland (16), and Estuarine Shrub-Scrub Wetland (17) are equivalent to NLCD Woody Wetlands (90), which includes both shrubland and forest. Palustrine Emergent Wetland (15) and Estuarine Emergent Wetland (18) are equivalent to NLCD emergent herbaceous (95). Unconsolidated Shore (19) is not a category in the NLCD, but it is categorized as Barren Land in Anderson; we have grouped it with NLCD Barren (31). Impervious Surface: The NLCD developed classes, Developed Open Space (21), Developed Low Intensity (22), Developed Medium Intensity (23), and Developed High Intensity (24), are based on the percentages of constructed surface per pixel. Because C-CAP is higher resolution, there are few mixed pixels, so it only includes Impervious and Developed Open Space classes. For the purposes of EnviroAtlas land cover calculations, the four NLCD developed classes are generally grouped together; the same can be done with Impervious Surface and Developed Open Space in C-CAP where appropriate. The following C-CAP files were mosaicked to produce this dataset: "pr_2010_ccap_hr_land_cover20170214.img," "usvi_stthomas_2012_ccap_hr_land_cover20150914.img," "usvi_stjohn_2012_ccap_hr_land_cover20140915.img," and "usvi_stcroix_2012_ccap_hr_land_cover20150910.img." Entity and Attribute Detail Citation: https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets EnviroAtlas Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, EnviroAtlas Geospatial Data Owner (919) 541-3832 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park NC 27709 EnviroAtlas@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas distributor https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/ORD/ENVIROATLAS download Download The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset. download https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services ESRI:ArcGIS API The endpoint of a web service to access the dataset (REST endpoint, WMS GetCapabilities URL, or a SOAP WSDL endpoint). webMapService https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-data information Documentation URL for accessing related documents such as data dictionary, technical information about a dataset, developer documentation, etc. information https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas information Home Page Alternative landing page used to redirect user to a contextual, Agency-hosted "homepage" for the Dataset or API information dataset Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report Data were collected using methods that have unknown accuracy (EPA National Geospatial Data Policy [NGDP] Accuracy Tier 10). For more information, please see EPA's NGDP at https://epa.gov/geospatial/policies.html Features represented have not been tested for completeness Features represented have not been tested for completeness Tests for integrity have not been performed. This lineage was generated by the FGDC CSDGM to 19139 transformation 1. Obtained 2010 Puerto Rico and 2012 U.S. Virgin Islands C-CAP rasters from https://coast.noaa.gov/ccapftp/. Files obtained are: "pr_2010_ccap_hr_land_cover20170214.img", "usvi_stthomas_2012_ccap_hr_land_cover20150914.img," "usvi_stjohn_2012_ccap_hr_land_cover20140915.img," and "usvi_stcroix_2012_ccap_hr_land_cover20150910.img." The C-CAP rasters for Puerto Rico were 2 x 2 m resolution. The rasters for the Virgin Islands were 2.4 x 2.4 m resolution. Note: There is no C-CAP data for the Isla de Mona, an island that is an uninhabited wildlife refuge between the main island of PR and the Dominican Republic, and Northern Culebra, a smaller island between the main island of PR and the US Virgin Islands. There are also a handful of small islands in northwestern St. Thomas that are not classified in C-CAP; they are part of HUC_12 210200010101. GAP land cover data can be used for these islands. 2017-03-03T00:00:00 2. Exported pr_2010_ccap_hr_land_cover20170214.img to tif. 2017-08-14T00:00:00 3. Created a new empty raster with NAD_1983_StatePlane_Puerto_Rico_Virgin_Isls_FIPS_5200 projection using the tool Create Raster Dataset. Selected Ignore Background Value: 0 so the background (unclassified ocean) will be ignored when the C-CAP rasters are mosaicked in. Set cell size to 2.4 m. 2017-08-14T00:00:00 4. Mosaicked the Virgin Islands C-CAP rasters to the empty raster created in the previous step. 2017-08-14T00:00:00 5. Built a raster attribute table to update the cell counts for the Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands rasters. 2017-08-14T00:00:00 6. Added the fields "NLCD_Value" and "NLCD_Class". Added the equivalent NLCD values to "NLCD_Value" and the names of the equivalent classes to NLCD_Class. In the case of the C-CAP Impervious Surface class [2], there were three corresponding NLCD classes (Developed Low Intensity, Medium Intensity, and High Intensity), so -9999 was used in the NLCD_Value field. See the overview section of the metadata for details. 2017-08-14T00:00:00 7. Edited the colormap to match the NLCD. 2017-08-14T00:00:00 8. The EnviroAtlas version of the C-CAP rasters for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were originally two separate datasets. The datasets for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were merged on 12/27/2019. 2019-12-27T00:00:00 unknown 2023-12-27 This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2024-02-09T11:11:00 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19139 transform. EnviroAtlas Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, EnviroAtlas Geospatial Data Owner (919) 541-3832 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park NC 27709 EnviroAtlas@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas pointOfContact