USGS:Biology Biological Informatics Program Vegetation Characterization Program Effigy Mounds National Monument Boundary Metadata

Boundary Metadata

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Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: NPS Midwest Region GIS Technical Support Center

Publication_Date: 20010827

Title: Effigy Mounds NM Boundary (EFMOBNDP)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Madison WI

Publisher: NPS Midwest Region GIS Technical Support Center

Online_Linkage:

<http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/efmo/index.html#geospatial_veg_info>

Description:

Abstract:

EFMOBNDP is an ArcInfo polygon coverage representing the best depiction of the monument boundary currently available.

Purpose:

The intended use of all data in a park`s GIS library is to support diverse park activities including planning, management, maintenance, research, and interpretation.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19000101

Ending_Date: 20010725

Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition

Status:

Progress: In Work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent: Effigy Mounds National Moument, Iowa

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -91.2404404

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -91.1585007

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.1095123

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.9361382

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: park boundary

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Iowa

Place_Keyword: Effigy Mounds National Monument

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints:

Not for use at scales greater than 1:12000. Given that only sections of the boundary have been legally surveyed, this depiction of the boundary is only authorized for use as reference for resource management.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NPS Midwest Region GIS Technical Support Center

Contact_Person: Peter Budde

Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: B102 Steenbock 550 Babcock Dr.

City: Madison

State_or_Province: Wisconsin

Postal_Code: 53706

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (608)-265-3515

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (608)-262-2500

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peter_budde@nps.gov

Hours_of_Service: M-F 0730 - 1630 (Central)

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Arc/Info vers. 8+ Pathname = /parks/plains2/efmo/complete/efmobndp

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Descriptive attributes have been and verified by NPS staff. Measured attributes are software computed and based on currently accepted algorithims applied in ESRI software.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

The data set is topologically clean. The data set has been reviewed for topological errors.

Completeness_Report:

All known boundary lines have been included. The park is currently funding a legal survey of selected bounda lines.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Variable, depending on the source of a particular boundary segment. Currently, the source scale of all boundary lines are 1:24,000 or better.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: NONE

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: National Park Service Water Resources Division

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

Title: NPS Boundaries in ArcInfo Interchange Format (DOS Zipped)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Other_Citation_Details:

As of 03/04/2002, this data set was available at: <http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_info/>

Source_Scale_Denominator: 9600

Type_of_Source_Media: digital spatial data

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 19000101

Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NPSB

Source_Contribution:

The Effigy Mounds boundary extracted from this data set was the previously used boundary depiction. It provides the foundation for the new version which has been updated with a recent land acquisition and additional GPS survey data.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Peter Budde NPS Midwest Region GIS Technical Support Center

Publication_Date: 20010416

Title: Iowa Natural Heritage Tract

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Madison, Wisconsin

Publisher: NPS Midwest Region GIS Technical Support

Other_Citation_Details: Also known as the Ferguson Tract and the Heritage Addition.

Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000

Type_of_Source_Media: legal land description

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20010316

Ending_Date: 20010416

Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: fer8

Source_Contribution: Boundary of land recently added to the monument.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Roger R. Mohn

Publication_Date: 20010410

Title: Effigy Mounds NM Boundary Survey-Selected Segments

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Harpers Ferry, Iowa

Publisher: Roger R. Mohn

Other_Citation_Details: Scale of survey drawings provided to the park-1:4800

Source_Scale_Denominator: 4800

Type_of_Source_Media: hard copy

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19990101

Ending_Date: 20000410

Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: surv

Source_Contribution:

Survey monument positions from the hardcopy map were converted to ArcInfo coverages and used to create the corresponding boundary lines.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Downloaded the NPS Water Resources Division version of the lower-48 park boundaries from the NPS FTP site.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NPSB

Process_Date: 19980209

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

In ArcEdit, the boundary for Effigy was selected. The selection set was then reversed with "nselect." The selected set was then deleted leaving only Effigy.

Process_Date: 19980209

Process_Step:

Process_Description: The coverage was projected from Albers to UTM 15, NAD83.

Process_Date: 19980218

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Used the ArcInfo "generate" command to produce points and lines from positions listed on the harcopy survey. Projected the survey positions in Iowa-North State Plane to UTM Zone 15, NAD83.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: surv

Process_Date: 20010621

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The county road along the northwest boundary of the North Unit was buffered by 46 ft to produce a replacement for the Water Resource version of the boundary.

Process_Date: 20010626

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The buffered-road boundary was edited to account for private property along that boundary segment. This was done based on the DOQQ for the area.

Process_Date: 20010627

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The survey-based and the buffered-road layers were added to the Water Resource boundary coverage to replace the corresponding existing arcs. Arcs were edited as little as possible when snapping the coverage polygons closed.

Process_Date: 20010627

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The boundary of the Heritage Addition was appended to the the boundary coverage. The South Unit boundary segment adjacent to the Addition was removed, and the corresponding Addition-South Unit arcs snapped to close the polygon.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: fer8

Process_Date: 20010627

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

An attribute field was added and populated to account for the source of each arc in the data set.

Process_Date: 20010814

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Errors in both the PAT and AAT user-id values were corrected by calculating new values equal to the internal system-id values. The ArcInfo command IDEDIT was then used to snyc the attribute table id values with the label file values.

Process_Date: 20010830

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Complete Chain

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 14

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 4

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Area Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 3

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator

Universal_Transverse_Mercator:

UTM_Zone_Number: 15

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -93

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0

False_Easting: 500000

False_Northing: 0

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Coordinate Pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: .1

Ordinate_Resolution: .1

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: EFMOBNDP.AAT

Entity_Type_Definition: Arc Attribute Table

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LENGTH

Attribute_Definition: software computed value

Attribute_Definition_Source: None

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 3653

Range_Domain_Maximum: 9359

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: METERS

Beginning_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 19971117

Ending_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 20010814

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ARC_SOURCE

Attribute_Definition:

Source information for each arc in the data set describing how it was created or from where it was acquired.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Midwest GIS TSC Staff

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: survey

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Arcs constructed using the most current survey available.

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Midwest GIS TSC Staff

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: constructed

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:

Arcs constructed using ArcView and ArcInfo tools based on supporting data.

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Midwest GIS TSC Staff

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: water resources

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Arcs extracted from the service-wide, lower-48 boundaries data.

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Midwest GIS TSC Staff

Beginning_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 20010814

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: EFMOBNDP.PAT

Entity_Type_Definition: Polygon Attribute Table

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AREA

Attribute_Definition: software computed value

Attribute_Definition_Source: None

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 571507

Range_Domain_Maximum: 3215831.5

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Square METERS

Beginning_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 19971117

Ending_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 20010814

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PERIMETER

Attribute_Definition: software computed value

Attribute_Definition_Source: None

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 3653

Range_Domain_Maximum: 9359

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: METERS

Beginning_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 19971117

Ending_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 20010814

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AUNIT

Attribute_Definition: Value identifies the three units of the park.

Attribute_Definition_Source: None

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Character field

Beginning_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 19970617

Ending_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 20010814

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics, MS 302, Room 8000, Building 810, Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (303) 202-4220

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303) 202-4219

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov

Distribution_Liability:

The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data and related graphics (if available) are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such.

The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Any related graphics (if available) are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not approriate to use the related graphics as data.

The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from an U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service servers and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this metadata report does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey and National Park Service.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: HTML

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/efmo/index.html#geospatial_veg_info>

Access_Instructions: Internet Access

Fees:

Organizations/individuals may need to provide suitable media to reporduce the data.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20041231

Metadata_Review_Date: 20071102

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics, MS 302,
Room 8000, Building 810, Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (303) 202-4220

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303) 202-4219

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name:

FGDC-STD-001.1-1999 Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, 1998 Part 1: Biological Data Profile, 1999

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage:

<http://metadata.nbii.gov/portal/community/Communities/Toolkit/Metadata/FGDC_Metadata/>

Profile_Name: Biological Data Profile FGDC-STD-001.1-1999