This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. Aerial photography from 2001 served as the base map, and field sampling was conducted from 2002–2006. Spatial data were digitized onscreen over digital orthophoto mosaics created from scanned color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography using a 0.5 hectare minimum mapping unit.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. Aerial photography from 2001 served as the base map, and field sampling was conducted from 2002–2006. Spatial data were digitized onscreen over digital orthophoto mosaics created from scanned color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography using a 0.5 hectare minimum mapping unit.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. Two sets of digital orthophoto mosaics, leaf-on (fall) and leaf-off (spring), were created for Petersburg National Battlefield. To achieve manageable file sizes, each set is made up of five files that, together, cover the entire geographic extent of the park. Kucera International acquired color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography for the leaf-on mosaics on October 23, 2001, and for the leaf-off mosaics on February 28, 2002. The photography was delivered to the NPS, quality checked, accepted as provided, and sent to NCSU-CEO.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. Two sets of digital orthophoto mosaics, leaf-on (fall) and leaf-off (spring), were created for Petersburg National Battlefield. To achieve manageable file sizes, each set is made up of five files that, together, cover the entire geographic extent of the park. Kucera International acquired color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography for the leaf-on mosaics on October 23, 2001, and for the leaf-off mosaics on February 28, 2002. The photography was delivered to the NPS, quality checked, accepted as provided, and sent to NCSU-CEO.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. Color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography for a digital orthophoto mosaic of Fort Necessity National Battlefield was acquired from an overflight on April 13, 2003 (i.e., during leaf-off conditions) by Kucera International. The photography was delivered to the National Park Service (NPS), quality checked, accepted as provided, and sent to North Carolina State University (NCSU). Upon receipt at NCSU, the air photos were counted to make sure that none were missing, scanned, and placed in the air photo archive maintained at NCSU for the NPS Northeast Region Inventory & Monitoring Program. Associated data and information provided by Kucera, and also stored in the air photo archive, include the airborne GPS/IMU files, the camera calibration certificate for the camera, and the hardcopy flight report for the photography that crosswalks the airborne GPS/IMU data to the photo frame numbers. The mosaic was produced from 41 color infrared air photos scanned at 1200 dpi with 24-bit color depth. The scanned images of the air photos were imported into ERDAS Imagine (.img) format where a photo block was created using airborne GPS and IMU data that Kucera International supplied with the aerial photography. After receiving the digital orthophoto mosaic from North Carolina State University, ecologists at the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program developed a formation-level vegetation map. Aerial photointerpretation was informed by viewing the diapositives through a stereoscope, viewing the digital mosaic onscreen, and overlaying the formation-level polygons onto digital topographic quad maps.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. Color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography for a digital orthophoto mosaic of Fort Necessity National Battlefield was acquired from an overflight on April 13, 2003 (i.e., during leaf-off conditions) by Kucera International. The photography was delivered to the National Park Service (NPS), quality checked, accepted as provided, and sent to North Carolina State University (NCSU). Upon receipt at NCSU, the air photos were counted to make sure that none were missing, scanned, and placed in the air photo archive maintained at NCSU for the NPS Northeast Region Inventory & Monitoring Program. Associated data and information provided by Kucera, and also stored in the air photo archive, include the airborne GPS/IMU files, the camera calibration certificate for the camera, and the hardcopy flight report for the photography that crosswalks the airborne GPS/IMU data to the photo frame numbers. The mosaic was produced from 41 color infrared air photos scanned at 1200 dpi with 24-bit color depth. The scanned images of the air photos were imported into ERDAS Imagine (.img) format where a photo block was created using airborne GPS and IMU data that Kucera International supplied with the aerial photography. After receiving the digital orthophoto mosaic from North Carolina State University, ecologists at the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program developed a formation-level vegetation map. Aerial photointerpretation was informed by viewing the diapositives through a stereoscope, viewing the digital mosaic onscreen, and overlaying the formation-level polygons onto digital topographic quad maps.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. The Southeast Coast Network contracted with Aero-Metric, Inc., through the USGS Rolla, Missouri office to provide color-infrared (CIR) aerial photographs. Airborne GPS data and CIR images were provided by Richard Crouse & Associates, Inc. These images were scanned by HAS Images, Inc. Ground check point data was provided by Aero-Metric, Inc. The project was referenced horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 16, and vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). Features were interpreted using 1:12,000 scale digital color-infrared aerial photography (flown 31 May 2009) through heads-up-digitizing in ArcGIS (Version 10.0, © 2010 Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, California). Polygons were mapped to a 0.5-hectare minimum mapping unit (MMU).

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. The Southeast Coast Network contracted with Aero-Metric, Inc., through the USGS Rolla, Missouri office to provide color-infrared (CIR) aerial photographs. Airborne GPS data and CIR images were provided by Richard Crouse & Associates, Inc. These images were scanned by HAS Images, Inc. Ground check point data was provided by Aero-Metric, Inc. The project was referenced horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 16, and vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). Features were interpreted using 1:12,000 scale digital color-infrared aerial photography (flown 31 May 2009) through heads-up-digitizing in ArcGIS (Version 10.0, © 2010 Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, California). Polygons were mapped to a 0.5-hectare minimum mapping unit (MMU).

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. We supplied the University of Georgia team with all plot data already collected and a dichotomous key to the communities of the park and we walked throughout the park to help them identify unique mapping units. Since photointerpreters rely heavily on canopy species composition, understory species composition, and disturbance to classify polygons and ecologists rely just as heavily on the shrub and herb layer to classify types, the mapping units and the vegetation classification units do not always “crosswalk” (match up) perfectly. The last step of the project (not detailed in this report) will be to work reconcile mapping units with vegetation associations to produce mapping units that match up well with the ecological units of the National Vegetation Classification.