Robert Kunsman 2018 vector digital data The hand-drawn field mapping data from a Survey Report - 1994 were used on digitizing the polygons https://doi.org/10.5066/F7348HHW https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5b69bb9de4b006a11f774fc6 A data processing task was needed by National Park Service to transpose field tabular and spatial data into various digital formats of the 1994 Aquatic Plant Survey Report. A survey of aquatic vascular plants was conducted in a 122 mile stretch of the Upper Delaware River between Hancock, New York and the Delaware Water Gap in 1991 and 1992. A total of 196 sites were inventoried and twenty-eight species of plants were recorded. The aquatic vascular plant flora in this section of the Delaware River appeared to be thriving, due in large part to good water quality and moderate impacts by man. The purpose of this task was the digitizing of hand-drawn field mapping data from hardcopy paper maps into digital map products. These digital mapping files are in the NPS standard GIS format and in National Park Service's accepted coordinate and projection systems. This is a data set composed of field survey of aquatic vegetation in the Delaware Water Gap and the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational Area National Parks. Data were compiled by field sampling with GPS coordinates and underwater imaging and bathymetry. Data were compiled by teams composed of personnel from the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. The data were used as training and ground truth for remote sensing image analysis of hyperspectral collected by the Civil Air Patrol with the Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance, also known by the acronym ARCHER. Archer is an aerial imaging system that produces ground images far more detailed than plain sight or ordinary aerial photography can. It is the most sophisticated unclassified hyperspectral imaging system available, according to U.S. Government officials. ARCHER can automatically scan detailed imaging for a given signature of the object being sought (such as a missing aircraft), for abnormalities in the surrounding area, or for changes from previously recorded spectral signatures. ARCHER was used in this project, to evaluate its potential for mapping submerged aquatic vegetation. The purpose was the digitizing of hand-drawn field mapping data from hardcopy paper maps into digital map products. These digital mapping files are in the NPS standard GIS format and in DEWA's accepted coordinate and projection systems. Upper Delaware River Recreational Area and Delaware Water Gap National Parks 19940501 19940915 Survey Finished in 1994, and sites digitized in 2004 Complete As needed -75.2925 -74.6867 41.9494 40.9478 gnis upper delaware pennsylvanian USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:5b993bf1e4b0702d0e863cf7 GNIS milford upper delaware Common geographic areas pennsylvania Milford None None Don Hamilton Delaware Water Gap NRA Branch Chief mailing address

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Delaware Water Gap PA 18302 USA 570 426-2452 don_hamiltont@nps.gov none Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 Quality control for duplication and omission Quality control for duplication and omission SAV data in 1994 0.01 0.01 Kunsman, Robert 20180814 tabular digital data https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5b69bb9de4b006a11f774fc6. Digital and/or Hardcopy 19940501 19940930 observed NPS as observed Dataset copied. NPS 20040915 NPS Don Hamilton National Park Service Branch Chief mailing

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Delaware Water Gap Pa 18302 USA 570 426-2452 don_hamiltont@nps.gov Vector G-polygon 197 Universal Transverse Mercator 18 0.999600 -75.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.000256 0.000256 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 Sites SAV data for Delaware River National Parks ESRI FID Internal feature number. ESRI FIPS Code (2-Digit State ID) ESRI Shape Feature geometry. ESRI SiteName Name of the site ESRI LocationID Location ID code (Site number) Survey Report, 1994 U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase mailing and physical

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