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Spatial Extent of Data

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ISO 19115 Topic Category

biota

Other Subject Keywords

arid lands, vegetation alliances, special features, California vegetation, Mojave plants, National Vegetation Classification, vegetation, Mojave vegetation, California plants

Place Keywords

North America, United States, Death Valley National Park, China Lake Naval Weapons Center, southern California, Desert southwest, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Mojave Desert, California, Mojave National Preserve, Ft. Irwin Military Reservation

Central Mojave Desert Vegetation Mapping Project, California, 1997-1999

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data at Risk (DaR) team partnered with the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) to preserve and release tabular data, shapefiles and field photographs of the Central Mojave Desert from 1997-1999. The data were originally collected as part of an effort through the Desert Managers Group (DMG) to develop scientific information on the distribution and characteristics of vegetation in the eastern Mojave Desert of California. This data preservation effort recovers information from obsolete geospatial files, database files, and field photographs and releases it all in open-source formats. The data made available in this release provide historic context on the species composition and distributions of various plant communities in the Central Mojave Desert which can be used to contextualize changes in vegetation composition of the Mojave Desert ecosystem. Aside from this project level summary, the pieces of this data release are as follows: -A Field Data ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Field-Data-Metadata.xml) and tabular field data (5 CSV files, Field_Data.zip) -A Plots Points and Photographs ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Plots-Points-and-Photographs-Metadata.xml), a plots points locations shapefile (zipped shapefile, plots_points.zip), photographs (12 zip folders of TIFF files, Mojave_Images_Plots-##-##.zip) and a crosswalk resource to relate the images to plots points (Mojave_Images_Crosswalk.csv) -A Special Features ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Spec-Feat-Points-Metadata.xml) and a special features points shapefile (zipped shapefile, spec_feat_points.zip) -A Mojave Vegetation Polygons ScienceBase item including a metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Mojave-Veg-Polygons-Metadata.xml), a Mojave vegetation polygons shapefile (zipped shapefile, mojave_veg_polygons.zip) and a label codes sheet that provides context for the vegetation classifications (LabelCodes.csv)

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Author(s) Cristiana I Falvo orcid, Tara M Bell orcid, USGS Southwest Biological, Anthony L Everette orcid, Kyle D Enns orcid, Kathryn A Thomas orcid
Publication Date 2018
Beginning Date of Data 1997
Ending Date of Data 1999
Data Contact
Kathryn A. Thomas
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OUBE6T
Citation Falvo, C.I., Bell, T.M., Biological, U.S., Everette, A.L., Enns, K.D., and Thomas, K.A., 2018, Central Mojave Desert Vegetation Mapping Project, California, 1997-1999: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OUBE6T.
Metadata Contact
Cristiana I Falvo
Metadata Date 2022-09-23
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License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
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