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Badlands National Park

Products available:

  • Aerial Photography
    • Aerial Photo Flight Line Index (1.5M)
  • Vegetation Information
    • Project Report (7.4M) (Full Document)
    A Vegetation Report, containing the following items:
    - Photo Interpretation Key
    - Vegetation Descriptions
    - Vegetation Key
    - Accuracy Assessment Methods and Results
  • Field Data
    • Graphic showing location of field sites "badlplots.pdf" (2.3M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial Field Plots Data "badlplot.exe" (120k)
    Field Data (MDB) - contains PLOTS data, AA Data and Species List "badldata.mdb" (1.04M)
    MS Excel format of Physical Descriptive Data for Plots (172k)
    MS Excel format of Species List Data for Plots (603k)
  • Geospatial Vegetation Information
    • Graphic of Vegetation Communities "badlveg.pdf" (2.3M)
    Large graphic of Vegetation Communities "badlveg_large.pdf" ( 24M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial Vegetation Data "badl.exe" (52.6M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial Boundary Data "badlbdy.exe" (105k)
    Plots and AA Photos (12.3M)
  • Accuracy Assessment Information
    • Graphic of Accuracy Assessment Points "badlaa.pdf" (2.3M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial AA Points Data "badlaa.exe" (107k)
    MS Excel format of Contingency Table "aa_matrix.xls" (37.5k)
  • Project Metadata
    • Accuracy Assessment ( 35K)
    Boundary ( 22K)
    Field Plots ( 81K)
    Spatial Vegetation Data ( 42K)
  • Program Tools

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    National Park Service Information about Badlands




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