Monday, November 22, 2010

Vegetation Characterization Products Now Available for Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Yosemite National Park

USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Characterization Program (VCP) documentation for Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Yosemite National Park has been completed and is available on the VCP Web site.  Products include project report - sampling approach, and methods; field data - graphic of field plots, field plots database, physical descriptive for plots, and species list for plots; geospatial vegetation information - graphics of vegetation communities, and geodatabase; accuracy assessment information - graphic of accuracy assessment points; metadata, and a link to NPS information about Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Yosemite National 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 ninety-five 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: Yosemite National Park, courtesy of the Vegetation Characterization Program web site.)

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