Skip to main content

Nebraska Ecological Systems Mapping

Dates

Start Date
2017-01-01

Citation

Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative(administrator), Karie Decker(Principal Investigator), 2017-01-01(Start), Nebraska Ecological Systems Mapping

Summary

Mapping ecological systems of Kansas and Nebraska expands upon previous work completed for Texas and Oklahoma and advances the desire of regional and state partners to have a consistently mapped seamless land cover for the Great Plains region. Land cover provides the framework to inform wildlife management and conservation decisions by identifying the current landscape configuration. Quantify the amount and types of habitat, by location, currently available is critical to determining where conservation and management resources should be allocated.

Child Items (4)

Contacts

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

md_metadata.json 179.94 KB application/json
metadata_iso1.xml 321.07 KB application/vnd.iso.19139-1+xml

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to produce a ecological systems based land map for Nebraska. Mapping based on ecological sites is meaningful since different vegetation types are supported in different regions. We can map the ecological site factors and the land cover (coarse land cover, 14 classes including deciduous forest, evergreen forest, herbaceous, shrubland, water, etc.). From those data sets we can model the current vegetation (ecological systems, or in some cases some other finer or coarser level from the National Vegetation Classification). So models take the general form of: Abiotic site variables + geographic region + coarse land cover = mapped current vegetation type Furthermore, mapping is best accomplished using image objects, which facilitates better accuracy and spatial resolution. The results are much easier to modify, manipulate, and up-date versus traditional land cover maps. Early results are viewed and then changed several times during production.

Project Extension

projectProducts
productDescriptionA land cover map (geospatial product) for Nebraska
statusExpected
productDescriptionA document describing methods and product results
statusExpected
projectStatusIn Progress

Budget Extension

annualBudgets
year2017
fundingSources
amount118500.0
recipientNebraska Game and Parks Commission
sourceU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
totalFunds118500.0
totalFunds118500.0

Map

Spatial Services

ScienceBase WMS

Communities

  • Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative
  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal

Associated Items

Tags

Provenance

generated using ADIwg mdTranslator 2.17.1

Additional Information

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
File Identifier file identifier 59567667e4b0d1f9f050d849

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...