Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chiricahua National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles. The vegetation mapping and characterization process began with the delineation of draft polygons from remote sensing imagery. Field crews then visited each polygon to collect qualitative vegetation cover data and further refine polygon boundaries. Concurrently, vegetation data were collected at both randomly and subjectively placed plots. At the end of each field day, crews transferred all edits made to field maps to a set of “master” paper maps that did not go into the field. Each polygon was then edited in ArcMap to reflect any boundary changes collected in the field on paper maps, and each polygon feature was attributed to reflect any changes in polygon identification numbers and tentative association names. The datasets are housed in a file geodatabase structure (.gdb), enabling the establishment of topology rules and relationships. Strict nomenclature was enforced for polygons, such that unique names were assigned to each polygon; these reflected the verified physiognomic formation type with a prefix of representative letters (W = Woodland, SS = shrub savanna, etc.) followed by a number.

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