Vegetation Map Pilot Report

DLCC’s Vegetation Map Pilot is a project envisioned initially as a supervised classification of two or three small areas of the DLCC. DLCC technical stakeholders advised changing from a supervised classification to an object oriented classification (OOC) method.This report presents the findings, feasibility, and lessons-learned during the exploration and object oriented classification process and results of the two sites on the United States-Mexico border, this is needed information before considering a full-scale, Vegetation Mapping Project, to include bigger areas or the totality of the Desert LCC region.

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aquascalientes, Aquascalientes, Arizona, Arizona, All tags... Baja California, Baja California, California, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, Coahuila, Coahuila, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov Desert LCC, Desert LCC (all), Desert LCC (all), Dos Rios Pilot Area, Dos Rios Pilot Area, Durango, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Federal resource managers, FinalReport_BOR_R14PG00148_FY14.pdf, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GIS dataset, GIS dataset, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Interested public, Jalisco, Jalisco, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, Mexico, Mexico, Nayarit, Nayarit, Nevada, Nevada, New Mexico, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Pilot/Case Study, Pilot/Case Study, Querétaro, Querétaro, Report, Report, Report, San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Sonora, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Texas, Texas, United States, United States, Utah, Utah, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, biota, completed, Fewer tags

Prototype Data

The Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is a partnership formed and directed by resource management entities as well as interested public and private entities in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Desert and montane sky island regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Desert LCC science depends on access to transboundary base datasets. Given the importance of vegetation such as grasslands and riparian vegetation in conservation science, a bi-national, landscape-scale vegetation data layer with classes relevant to Desert LCC research is crucial. One objective of this project is to investigate appropriate methodologies and landscape scales to create a Desert LCC binational land cover...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aquascalientes, Arizona, Baja California, California, All tags... Chihuahua, Coahuila, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Data, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data.gov Desert LCC, Datasets/Database, Desert LCC (all), Dos Rios Pilot Area, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Federal resource managers, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GIS dataset, Guanajuato, Interested public, Jalisco, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Map, Mexico, Nayarit, Nevada, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Pilot/Case Study, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Texas, United States, Utah, Zacatecas, biota, completed, final, Fewer tags

USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region GIS Datasets

Selected GIS datasets for the Southwestern Region are available for download from this page. Use of most of these files requires GIS software such as ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcInfo or ArcExplorer. Most of these datasets are provided in ArcView shapefile (shp) format. ArcExplorer, a free, basic GIS software package available from ESRI will read the data in shapefile format (ESRI and the ESRI Logo are licensed trademarks of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.). Some datasets will also have related tables that can be used with the geographic data. Tabular data will be in Microsoft Excel format. All files have been compressed with zip and can be uncompressed with programs such as WinZip. Be aware that some of the...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, GIS, GIS dataset, New Mexico, ecoregion, All tags... fire, grassland, ownership, protected area, riparian, river, vegetation, watershed, Fewer tags

USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region Geospatial Data

The Pacific Southwest Region has geospatial datasets available for download from this website. These datasets are zipped personal or file geodatabases* created using ESRI ArcGis 10.0 software. Additional descriptive information as well as data steward contact information, for each geodatabase, can be found under the metadata link. These metadata files meet the Federal Geospatial Data Committee standards for structure and content.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, GIS dataset, cultural, ecoregion, erosion, All tags... fire, grazing, management, protected area, rare, recreation, riparian, vegetation, water, Fewer tags

Supporting Material

Pilot areas A and B produced in site selection process and analysis was centered on input criteria from DLCC stakeholders for the best representation of the desert land cover and priority habitats. The input from the DLCC stakeholders was compiled into a Weighted Matrix. The Weighted Matrix was ranked (with values assigned between 1 and 10) based on the level of importance held by the criteria and based on the datasets used for analysis.

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aquascalientes, Arizona, Baja California, California, All tags... Chihuahua, Coahuila, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Data, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov Desert LCC, Desert LCC (all), Dos Rios Pilot Area, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Federal resource managers, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GIS dataset, Guanajuato, Interested public, Jalisco, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Mexico, Nayarit, Nevada, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Texas, United States, Utah, Zacatecas, biota, completed, Fewer tags