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Wind Cave National Park

Products available:

  • Aerial Photography
    • Aerial Photo Flight Line Index (213K)
  • Vegetation Information
    • Project Report (5.2M) (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 "wicaplots.pdf" (1.6M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial Field Plots Data "wicaplot.exe" (78.4k)
    Field Data (MDB) - contains PLOTS data, AA Data and Species List "wicadata.mdb" (1.54M)
    MS Excel format of Physical Descriptive Data for Plots (108k)
    MS Excel format of Species List Data for Plots (563k)
  • Geospatial Vegetation Information
    • Graphic of Vegetation Communities "wicaveg.pdf" (1.6M)
    Large graphic of Vegetation Communities "wicaveg_large.pdf" ( 10M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial Vegetation Data "wica.exe" (12.9M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial Boundary Data "wicabdy.exe" (76.6k)
    Plots and AA Photos (8.42M)
  • Accuracy Assessment Information
    • Graphic of Accuracy Assessment Points "wicaaa.pdf" (1.6M)
    Self extracting files containing Spatial AA Points Data "wicaaa.exe" (87.8k)
    MS Excel format of Contingency Table "aa_matrix.xls" (33k)
  • Project Metadata
    • Accuracy Assessment ( 31K)
    Boundary ( 22K)
    Field Plots Data ( 39K)
    Spatial Vegetation Data ( 40K)
  • Program Tools

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    National Park Service Information about Wind Cave




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