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Riparian species vegetation classification data for the Colorado River within Grand Canyon derived from 2013 airborne imagery

Riparian species vegetation classification within the Grand Canyon riparian corridor derived from 2013 airborne image collection - including Training and Validation Points, and Accuracy Assessment Tables

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2013-05-25
End Date
2013-05-30

Citation

Durning, L.E., Sankey, J.B., Bedford, A., and Sankey, T.T., 2018, Riparian species vegetation classification data for the Colorado River within Grand Canyon derived from 2013 airborne imagery: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OUB1RS.

Summary

These data are a species-level classification map of riparian vegetation in the Colorado River riparian corridor in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. The classification is derived from 0.2 m pixel resolution multispectral aerial imagery acquired in May 2013. The classification spans the riparian zone of the river corridor between Glen Canyon Dam near Page, Arizona, and Lake Mead at Pearce Ferry, Arizona. The classification is divided into 5 distinct reaches of the river: Glen Canyon, Marble Canyon, Eastern Grand Canyon, Western Grand Canyon upstream of Diamond Creek, and Western Grand Canyon downstream of Diamond Creek. The method used for classification was a combination of supervised Classification And Regression Tree (CART) analysis and [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Joel B Sankey, Southwest Region
Originator :
Laura E Durning, Joel B Sankey, Ashton F Bedford, Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey
Metadata Contact :
Joel B Sankey, Southwest Region
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Southwest Biological Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		9.38 KB application/fgdc+xml
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone1.zip 13.81 MB application/zip
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone2.zip 20.21 MB application/zip
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone3.zip 11.18 MB application/zip
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone4.zip 5.55 MB application/zip
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone5.zip 13.26 MB application/zip
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone6.zip 6.47 MB application/zip
Riparian_Species_Vegetation_Classification_2013_Zone7.zip 11.88 MB application/zip
Tabular_Data_Metadata.zip 829.88 KB application/zip

Purpose

These data are intended to be used as a tool to quantify vegetation species quantity and composition within the riparian corridor of the Colorado River in Glen, Marble and Grand Canyons, Arizona. These data are intended to be applied and interpreted at the spatial scales of: patches of multiple individual plants of the same or differing species; river reach; or the entire riparian corridor (system-wide). The data are not intended to be used at the spatial scale of individual plants. The training and validation tabular dataset are registered and designed to be used with the May 2013 multispectral high resolution image mosaic data (https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TX3CHS).

Rights

The authors of these data request that data users contact them regarding intended use and to assist with understanding limitations and interpretation. Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.

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