Array · collection · 1996

Land Cover for Wyoming

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

The primary purpose of this data was to provide information on the geographic distribution of land cover (primarily vegetation types) for the Wyoming Gap Analysis project (WY-GAP).

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The secondary purpose of the data was to provide a variable (vegetation as habitat) for the purposes of mapping vertebrate species habitat associations for WY-GAP. This data may also be used for a variety of coarse (regional) scale landscape analysis/management purposes pertaining to land cover.

This data contains land cover (mostly vegetation types) for the entire state of Wyoming at 1:100000 scale. Attribute fields describe primary and secondary land cover, crown closure, wetlands, disturbance and other important land cover types occuring within the polygon. Only the fields for primary land cover and percentage of each polygon occupied by that land cover are complete in the coverage, but other attribute fields are populated when information was available.

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The data is available for distribution as one statewide file or tiled into 56 separate files by USGS 1:100,000 quadrangle. The format for distribution is either ARC/INFO export format or ArcView shapefile.

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Stated by source: Land Use Land Cover · Land Use/Land Cover Classification · Not provided · Vegetation Cover · Vegetation Index · Vegetation Species

Provenance · 1 source records, 14 field assertions

Source	Key	Last seen	Raw
NASA Earthdata CMR	C1214614382-SCIOPS	15 d ago	JSON v1

Field	Assertion	Extractor	Evidence
access_level	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-cover	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-index	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-species	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/environmental-governance-management/land-management/land-use-land-cover-classification	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/land-use-land-cover	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
description	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/Abstract
license_text	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
publication_date	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatial	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/SpatialExtent
temporal	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/TemporalExtents
title	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/EntryTitle
version_label	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0

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Access: open
License: This dataset was produced with an intended application at the state or ecoregion level - geographic areas from several hundred thousand to millions of hectares in size. The data provide a course-filter approach to analyses, meaning that not every occurrence of animal habitat is mapped; only large, generalized distributions are mapped, based on the USGS 1:100,000 mapping scale in both detail and precision. Therefore, this dataset can be used appropriately for coarse-scale (> 1:100,000) applications, or to provide context for finer-level maps or applications. >Appropriate uses include: >1. statewide biodiversity planning; >2. regional and large area resource planning; >3. coarse-filter evaluation of potential impacts or benefits of major >projects/initiatives on biodiversity - such as utility or transportation >corridors, wilderness proposals, open space or recreation proposals; >4. environmental impact assessment for large projects >such as military activities; >5. education at all levels for both students and citizens. >Inappropriate uses of this data include: >1. Generating specific measurements from the data finer than the >nearest thousand hectares; >2. Establishing exact boundaries for regulation or acquisition; >3. Establishing definite presence or absence of any element; >4. Determining abundance, health, or condition of any element; >5. Establishing a measure of accuracy of any other data by >comparison with this dataset; >6. Combining this data with any other data finer than >1:100,000-scale for analysis; >7. Use of this data to map small areas (less than thousands of >hectares) typically requiring mapping resolution at 1:24,000-scale >and using aerial photographs or ground surveys; >8. Altering the data in anyway and redistributing it as a GAP product.
Published: 1996-12-01
Version: 2
Formats: ArcInfo export format, Shapefile
Coverage: 1994-01-01 → 1994-12-31
Area: 40.950043°–45.107952° lat, -111.093346°–-103.88353° lon
Platforms: Not provided
Processing level: Not provided
Languages: en

CMR concept: C1214614382-SCIOPS
CMR short name: WYGISC_LANDCOV.v2

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