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Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 - World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) Submission (ver 1.1, April 2021)

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Publication Date
Last Revision
2021-05-19

Citation

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - GAP Analysis Project (GAP), 2021, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 - World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) Submission (ver 1.1, April 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IVLRSS.

Summary

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) - Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) - Gap Analysis Project (GAP) manages the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), an Arc10x geodatabase, that includes a full inventory of areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation, historic, and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The PAD-US is developed in partnership with many organizations, including coordination groups at the [U.S.] Federal level, lead organizations for each State, and a number of national and other non-governmental organizations whose work is closely related to the PAD-US. Learn more about the USGS PAD-US partners program. [...]

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Attached Files

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Script1_ComparePADUSDataWithWDPAdataToTransferWDPAIDs.zip
“Script 1: Compare PAD-US Data With WDPA data To Transfer WDPAIDs”
22.63 KB application/zip
Script2_AssignWDPA_DESG_RemoveDesgFromName.zip
“Script 2: Assign WDPA DESG and Remove Desg From Name”
80.74 KB application/zip
Script3_TranslateStateName_MangName_OwnType_NoTake_ToWDPASchema.zip
“Script 3: Translate State Name, Mang Name, Own Type, NoTake To WDPA Schema”
5.2 KB application/zip
Script4_DissolvePADUSdata_AppendtoWDPASchema_AssignCategoricalWDPAvalues.zip
“Script 4: Dissolve PADUS data; Append to WDPA Schema; Assign Categorical WDPA va”
3.85 KB application/zip
Script5_RemoveNullValuesInWDPASchema_CheckIncorrectSub_LocValues.zip
“Script 5: Remove Null Values In WDPA Schema; Check Incorrect Sub_Loc Values”
7.92 KB application/zip
PADUS2_1WDPAschema_V1_1.zip
“Dataset: PAD-US 2.1 WDPA schema_ Arc 10.x Geodatabase submission”
165.59 MB application/zip
Readme.txt
“Readme file containing basic descriptions of the 'Attached Files'”
7.9 KB text/plain
VersHist-PADUS2_1WDPAschema.txt
“PAD-US WDPA submission version history”
1.83 KB text/plain

Purpose

The USGS - Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) - Gap Analysis Project (GAP) provides U.S. protected areas data to The United Nations Environmental Program - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) for the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) to track global progress toward biodiversity protection targets (Aichi Target 11) enacted by the Convention on Biological Diversity available at: protectedplanet.net. The USGS manages the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), an Arc10x geodatabase, that includes areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation, historic, and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The full PAD-US inventory was refined to include areas managed primarily for biodiversity (GAP Status Code 1 and 2 only) and translated into the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) format for this data release.

Rights

Public Domain. 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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