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Badlands National Park

Products available:

  • Aerial Photography
    • Aerial Photo Flight Line Index (1.2M)
    Photo Interpretive Signature Key
  • Vegetation Information
    • Project Report (7.4M) (Full Document)
    Vegetation Class Field Key
    Vegetation Descriptions
    Photos of Map Classes
    Field Photo Album (293K)
  • Field Data
    • Metadata
  • Geospatial Vegetation Information
    • Browse Graphic of Vegetation Communities "badlveg.pdf" (438K)
    Self extracting files containing Arc files of vegetation "badl.exe" (52.6M)
    Spatial Vegetation Data Metadata ( 42K)
    Self extracting files containing Arc files of Park Boundary "badlbdy.exe" (105k)
    Boundary Metadata ( 22K)
  • Accuracy Assessment Information
    • Methods for Accuracy Assessment
    Results for Accuracy Assessment
    Plot of Accuracy Assessment Points "badlaa.pdf" (450K)
    Self extracting files containing Arc files of accuracy assessment points "badlaa.exe" (107k)
    Accuracy Assessment Final Contingency Table (111K)
    Excel format file of Final Contigency Table "aa_matrix.xls" (37k)
    Accuracy Assessment Metadata ( 35K)
  • Program Tools

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    National Park Service Information about Badlands








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