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Dinosaur National Monument

Products available:

  • Aerial Photography
    • Aerial Photo Flight Line Index (529K)
  • Vegetation Information
    • Project Report ( 22M) (Full Document)
    A Vegetation Report, containing the following items:
    - Photo Interpretation Key
    - Vegetation Descriptions
    - Vegetation Key
    - Photos of Map Classes
    - Accuracy Assessment Methods and Results
  • Field Data
    • Graphic showing location of field sites "dinoplots.pdf" (4.4M)
    Field Data (MDB) - contains PLOTS data, AA Data and Species List "dinodata.mdb" (11.8M)
    MS Excel format of Physical Descriptive Data for Plots (2.53M)
    MS Excel format of Species List Data for Plots (1.93M)
  • Geospatial Vegetation Information
    • Graphic of Vegetation Communities "dinoveg.pdf" (4.9M)
    Large Graphic of Vegetation Communities "dinoveg_large.pdf" ( 50M)
    Zip files containing Spatial Data "dinogeodata1.zip" (1.71G)
    Zip files containing Spatial Data "dinogeodata2.zip" (1.71G)
    Zip files containing Spatial Data "dinogeodata3.zip" (1.71G)
    Zip files containing Spatial Data "dinogeodata4.zip" (1.71G)
    Zip files containing Spatial Data "dinogeodata5.zip" (1.70G)

    (Includes Data for AA, Boundary, Field Plot Points and Vegetation)
    Plots and AA Photos (1.79G)
    Plots and AA Photos (1.53G)
    Plots and AA Photos (1.42G)
  • Accuracy Assessment Information
    • Graphic of Accuracy Assessment Points "dinoaa.pdf" (4.4M)
    MS Excel format of Contingency Table "aa_matrix.xls" (37k)
  • Project Metadata
    • Accuracy Assessment ( 26K)
    Boundary ( 25K)
    Field Plots ( 29K)
    Spatial Vegetation Data ( 45K)
  • Program Tools

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    National Park Service Information about Dinosaur


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