SupClas, GeoSet, SubType, VegDen, VegType: Categorical landcover rasters (landcover, geomorphic setting, substrate type, vegetation density, and vegetation type): Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, NJ, 2010

Publication Date

2019-06-25

Start Date

2010

End Date

2010

Sturdivant, E.J., Zeigler, S.L., Gutierrez, B.T., and Weber, K.M., 2019, Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics–Four sites in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, 2010–2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P944FPA4.

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These categorical raster files map 2010 substrate and vegetation characteristics in 5-m cells. The supervised classification raster (EF10_SupClas.tif) depicts landcover attributes (for example, marsh, sand, water, herbaceous vegetation). It was created with a supervised classification of 2010 aerial imagery. Raster files EF10_SubType.tif, EF10_VegDen.tif, EF10_VegType.tif were reclassified from the supervised classification raster with some manual modifications. EF10_SubType.tif maps discrete substrate types; EF10_VegDen.tif maps discrete categories of vegetation density; EF10_VegType.tif maps discrete vegetation types. Raster file EF10_GeoSet.tif maps discrete geomorphic settings (e.g. beach, dunes, washovers) and was digitized manually with reference to source datasets. Information contained in these spatial datasets was used within a Bayesian network to model the probability that a specific set of landscape characteristics would be associated with piping plover habitat (Zeigler and others 2019).

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