USGS:Biology Biological Informatics Program Vegetation Characterization Program Effigy Mounds National Monument Aerial Photo (October 2000) Mosaic Images Metadata

Aerial Photo (October 2000) Mosaic Images Metadata

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• Identification_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54603

Publication_Date: 20050131

Title:

Aerial Photo (October 2000) Mosaic Images for the Effigy Mounds National Monument Vegetation Mapping Project

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program

Issue_Identification: Effigy Mounds NM Vegetation Mapping Project

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics

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

Description:

Abstract:

Color infrared (CIR) aerial photographs were acquired as baseline imagery data to produce vegetation spatial database coverages of Effigy Mounds National Monument (EFMO) and environs. Aerial photos were collected on October 9, 2000 at a scale of 1:8,000 to capture peak fall leaf phenology. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) of La Crosse, Wisconsin has produced spatially referenced aerial photo mosaic images of the aerial photographs for both the Yellow River and Sny Magill units and their environs. The photo mosaics are raster datasets compressed with MrSID (LizardTech), projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), Zone 15, using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83).

Purpose:

The aerial photo mosaics were produced as by-products from the Effigy Mounds National Monument Vegetation Mapping Project, USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program.

Supplemental_Information:

The UMESC collected the aerial photographs in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 3. The aerial photography was funded by the VMP. Mounted in a USFWS Partenavia twin-engine aircraft, aerial photographs were collected using a Ziess Jena LMK 2000 camera loaded with KODAK AEROCHROME II Infrared Film 2443. To attain stereo viewing and full aerial coverage, parameters were set to collect aerial photos with a 60% forward-lap and a 30% side-lap. The 1:8,000-scale photographs were collected at an elevation above ground level of 4,000 ft. --- The photo mission required five flight lines to cover the Yellow River Unit, and another two flight lines to cover the Sny Magill Unit. In all, 69 aerial photos were collected on October 9, 2000 (57 photos for the Yellow River Unit, 12 photos for the Sny Magill Unit). HAS Images, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) processed the original 9 x 9-inch positive transparency film, and produced two sets of contact prints. --- An earlier set of CIR aerial photos was collected on August 25, 2000 to compliment the October set. Aerial photos were collected on August 25, 2000 (1:15,000-scale) to capture peak vegetation biomass, which became particularly useful for mapping early senescing macrophytic wetland vegetation. The October photo set was collected to capture peak fall leaf phenology for forest mapping. Geo-referenced aerial photo mosaic images were also made for the August 2000 photo set, supported with metadata. --- The aerial photo mosaics were generated from individual scans (at 400 dpi) of the original scaled aerial photograph print. The scanned images (in TIFF format) were referenced to 2 geo-data sources using OrthoMapper software (a softcopy photogrammetric software for GIS); USGS 1:12,000-scale digital orthophoto quadrangles (DOQ) and USGS 7.5-minute 10 m resolution (30 m where 10 m not available) digital elevation models (DEM). The individual photographs were mosaicked using an automated process in OrthoMapper. A 10:1 compression was applied to the mosaics using MrSID Geospatial Encoder (Version 1.4). --- Special notes: Some dark areas of the original hard copy photographs (e.g., from shadow casts, dark open water) are represented in the mosaic image as pure black-colored pixels, resulting in minor loss of true imagery data.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20001009

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa, including the Yellow River and Sny Magill Units, and extended environs.

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -91.26206917

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -91.14166555

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.13784662

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.91559075

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Aerial Photographs

Theme_Keyword: Aerial Photography

Theme_Keyword: Color Infra-red

Theme_Keyword: Aerial Photo Mosaic

Theme_Keyword: Effigy Mounds National Monument Vegetation Mapping Project

Theme_Keyword: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Effigy Mounds National Monument

Place_Keyword: EFMO

Place_Keyword: Yellow River

Place_Keyword: Sny Magill

Place_Keyword: Harpers Ferry

Place_Keyword: Marquette

Place_Keyword: Allamakee County

Place_Keyword: Clayton County

Place_Keyword: Iowa

Place_Keyword: USA

Access_Constraints:

Those using the spatial database should understand the data and determine for themselves the fitness of the data prior to use. The spatial accuracy of any given point on these geo-referenced image mosaics does not necessarily meet USGS accuracy standards for DOQ/DEM. Although it can be assumed that spatial accuracy meets those of the base maps used to produce these geo-referenced images, landscape relief, inherent distortions of aerial photographs, human error in using referencing software may all contribute to inconsistent geospatial accuracies in some areas. --- 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.

Use_Constraints: GIS Software

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 2630 Fanta Reed Road

City: La Crosse

State_or_Province: Wisconsin

Postal_Code: 54603

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (608) 781-6451

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (608) 783-8058

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: URL address: <http://www.umesc.er.usgs.gov/umesc_home.html>

Hours_of_Service: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM, M-F

Contact_Instructions:

Ask receptionist for national park mapping contact in geospatial applications branch.

Data_Set_Credit: USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

OrthoMapper (Image Processing Software, Inc.); MrSID (LizardTech).

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54603

Publication_Date: 20050131

Title: Effigy Mounds National Monument Vegetation Mapping Project

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program

Issue_Identification: Effigy Mounds NM Vegetation Mapping Project

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics

Other_Citation_Details:

The Effigy Mounds National Monument (EFMO) Vegetation Mapping Project is an initiative of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Program (VMP). (For more information on VMP, see larger work citation below.) The goals of the project are to adequately describe and map plant communities of EFMO and immediate surroundings and to provide the NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program, resource managers, and biological researchers with useful baseline vegetation information. The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the Minneapolis Office of NatureServe in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have mapped and classified the existing plant communities at EFMO and extended surroundings. --- Common to all VMP mapping projects, the three major components of the EFMO Vegetation Mapping Project are vegetation classification, vegetation mapping, and map accuracy assessment. Two sets of aerial photographs were collected during summer and fall of 2000, and the mapping project was officially inaugurated spring 2001 with a scoping meeting where partners discussed the project's objectives, goals, and methods. Photointerpreters, ecologists, and botanists collaborated to describe National Vegetation Classification System (NVCS) plant associations (communities) and determine how best to map them using the aerial photographs. Plant community descriptions were derived from analyses of vegetation sampling data at EFMO. These plant communities, along with NVCS Formation vegetation units depicting human disturbance and cultivated lands and with units describing human-made structures, were interpreted and mapped using aerial photographs and mirror stereoscopes. Spatial database coverages were produced of the Yellow River and Sny Magill units and their respective environs using state-of-the-art photogrammetric and GIS software. An accuracy assessment of the map coverages were performed on map classes representing NVCS plant communities, with results exceeding VMP standards. --- The EFMO project delivers many geospatial and vegetation data products in hard copy and digital formats, including an in-depth project summary report discussing methods and results, plant community descriptions and dichotomous key, representative ground photos of plant communities, a database containing the plot samples and accuracy assessment, field data sheets, aerial photograph prints and images (including geo-referenced photo mosaics), map classification and descriptions, and spatial coverages and maps of plant communities, fieldwork locations, aerial photo indexes, and project boundaries (each supported with metadata reports). All geospatial products are in Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 15, using North American Datum of 1983. More VMP information and products of completed park mapping projects are on the Internet at <http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg>.

Online_Linkage: <http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/efmo/>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Information

Publication_Date: 200304

Title: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program (May 2003)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program

Issue_Identification: Overview

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Biological Informatics

Other_Citation_Details:

Overview of USGS - NPS Vegetation Mapping Program (taken from <http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/about.html>, May 2003): The USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program is a cooperative effort by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Park Service (NPS) to classify, describe, and map vegetation communities in more than 270 national park units across the United States. This landmark program is both the first to provide national-scale descriptions of vegetation for a federal agency and the first to create national vegetation standards for its data products. Its goal is to meet specific information needs identified by the National Park Service. --- The vegetation mapping program is an important part of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program, a long-term effort to develop baseline data for all national park units that have a natural resource component. It is managed by the USGS Center for Biological Informatics, a unique information center designed to help scientists, land managers, the public, and others locate and apply biological information. --- Program activities are based on peer-reviewed, objective science. Comprehensive vegetation information is provided at national and regional levels, while also serving local management needs of individual parks. Stringent quality control procedures ensure that products are accurate and consistent for initial inventory purposes and replicable for monitoring purposes. The spatially enabled digital products produced by the program are available on the World Wide Web. --- Program scientists have developed data collection procedures for classification, mapping, accuracy assessment, and use of existing data. Program products meet Federal Geographic Data Committee standards for vegetation classification and metadata, and national standards for spatial accuracy and data transfer. Standards include a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 hectares and classification accuracy of 80% for each map class. Nature Serve, an important partner in the USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping program, is the caretaker of the National Vegetation Classification System, which is used by the program to classify vegetation communities. --- A report of project methods and results is provided at completion of individual projects. Project results include a rich set of data and information for each park project, as follows: --- Spatial Data: Aerial photography, Map classification, Map classification description and key, Spatial database of vegetation communities, Hardcopy maps of vegetation communities, Metadata for spatial databases, Complete accuracy assessment of spatial data, Vegetation Information. --- Vegetation classification: Dichotomous field key of vegetation classes, Formal description for each vegetation class, Ground photos of vegetation classes, Field data in database format.

Online_Linkage: <http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/>

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: 0.000032

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000032

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

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

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

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>

Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20050131

Metadata_Review_Date: 20081217

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