National Gap Analysis Program (GAP) -- Core Science Analytics and Synthesis
National Gap Analysis Program
USGS Core Sciences Analytics and Synthesis
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GAP Landcover Viewer Updated
GAP updated national land cover data set (version 2) has been updated and crosswalked to the five highest levels of the National Vegetation Classification System. This land cover data provides detailed information on... Learn more >>
GAP Supports America’s Great Outdoors Initiative
From April through July 2011, Secretary Salazar and senior DOI officials visited governors and other high-ranking state resource staff throughout the nation to discuss President Obama's Americas Great Outdoors (AGO) Initiative. The... Learn more >>
NPScape helps National Parks understand their conservation context using PAD-US
NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that produces and delivers to US National Parks a suite of landscape-scale datasets, maps, reports, and other products to inform natural resource management and planning... Learn more >>
GAP data contribute to 2011 State of the Birds report
Managers use GAP data to determine how well plants and animals are being protected across the country by using three datasets: land cover, species distributions, and protected areas. ... Learn more >>
Department of Interior Strategic Plan
GAP's Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) was featured in the Department of Interior's Strategic Plan for 2011-2016. GAP maps and data play a role in helping the Department of Interior... Learn more >>
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DOWNLOAD data for land cover, species, protected areas (PAD-US) and more. Choose your state or download for entire U.S.
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VIEW online, using the interactive GAP Data Viewers. Select thematic views, browse map, choose data to download.
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