USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Characterization Program (VCP) documentation for Padre Island National Seashore and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park has been completed and is available on the VCP Web site. Products include aerial photography - graphic of orthophoto mosaic; project report - vegetation descriptions, vegetation key, and accuracy assessment; field data - graphic of field plots; geospatial vegetation information - graphics of vegetation communities, and geodatabase; accuracy assessment information - contingency matrix; metadata, and a link to NPS information about Padre Island National Seashore and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park. The goal of the VCP is to classify and map the vegetation communities of National Parks that have a natural resource component. Complete documentation is currently available for eighty park units and two U.S. Fish and Wildlife refuge units. The VCP is managed by the USGS Center for Biological Informatics in cooperation with the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program. The USGS Vegetation Characterization effort includes the management and upkeep of the VCP protocols, Web-based access to the standards, and the Web-based access to NPS Vegetation Characterization program finished products.
(Photo: Padre Island National Seashore. Photo courtesy of the Vegetation Characterization Program.)
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