Endangered Species Recovery Program and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation MPGIS Service Center
1999
Natural Vegetation of Central California based on Kuchler (1977)
vector digital data
Fresno, CA, US
Endangered Species Recovery Program
U.S. FWS, 1998 Recovery Plan for Upland Species of the San Joaquin Valley, California.
http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp
A polygon coverage of Historical natural vegegation for central California based on the work of A.W. Kuchler.
To show Historical vegetation in the Central Valley of California for Figure 2. of the SJV Recovery Plan.
A statewide coverage is available from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific GIS Service Center. See URL: http://www.mp.usbr.gov/mp400/geopage/metadata/kuchler.html
1999
publication date
Irregular
-123.29
-115.391
40.9719
32.5188
None
Endangered Species
Recovery Planning
Conservation
Historical Vegetation
Landcover
Kuchler
None
United States
California
San Joaquin Valley
Central Valley
none
None. Acknowledgement of the Endangered Species Recovery Program would be appreciated in products derived from this data.
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kuchler_sjv.jpg
Graphic of theme kuchler_sjv
JPEG
Scott Snover (ESRP) Nancy Norvell (ESRP) Micheal Sebhat (USBR) D. Edwards (USBR) Scott E. Phillips (ESRP)
Unknown. The attributes are consistent with Figure 2. of the SJV Recovery Plan.
Arcs connect to each other at nodes. Arcs have direction and left and right sides. Arcs that connect to surround an area define a polygon.
Polygon features that were completely outside of the study area were omitted.
This data represents a regional view and is not accurate to the parcel level. The Lat-Long intersection points on the original map were used as control points.
Kuchler, A.W.
1997
The map of the natural vegetation of California.
document
New York, NY, US
John Wiley and Sons
Pp. 909-938 plus supplement in Terrestrial vegetation of California (M.G. Barbour and J. Major, eds.)
http://www.wiley.com/
paper
1997
publication date
KUCHLER
Coverage digitized from the map source.
(The following was taken from a text notes written by Scott Snover or Nancy Norvell of ESRP). "The original coverage was digitized from the original map published by A.W. Kuchler in 1977. The Lat-Long intersection points on the original map were used to generate a tic file. The map was digitized one section at a time, a section being the area bounded by four tic points (i.e.- 1 degree Lat by 1 degree Long). Each of these sections was done individually and later joined together in a master coverage. Rather than try to digitize directly from the original map, which was folded and heavily creased, copies of portions of the map were used, taking care to make sure that as many creases as possible were flattened to obtain a clean copy. Also, since some of the original shade symbols did not copy clearly, or the border between two shade symbols was indistinct, the borders were copied by hand from the original map. In some areas along the coast or along lakebeds where the copy was unclear as to where all the lines were. In these cases, a coverage showing either the coastline or the lake boundaries was brought up as a back coverage and the relevant arcs were traced on the screen." (end of quoted text). Addtional digitizing and edits were done by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation MP-GIS Service Center. The statewide coverage was reduced to the Central Valley coverage by ESRP.
1995
Endangered Species Recovery Program
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Vector
Universal Transverse Mercator
10
0.9996
-123
0
500000
0
Coordinate pair
10
10
meters
North American Datum of 1927
Clark 1866
6378206.4
294.98
Attrbutes are CNAME for the common name of the vegetation type and SNAME for the scientific name of the vegetation type.
Kuchler, 1977
Endangered Species Recovery Program
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Arc Export file of kuchler_sjv
No warranty, expressed or implied is made by the ESRP regarding the utility of the data, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. These data are geographic illustrations and do not represent legal boundaries.
ARCE
7.2.1
no compression
http://www.esrp.org/gis/
Large files may be GNU Zip compressed. Tools for decompression can be obtained from URL: http://www.gzip.org/
Generic PC with Linux i386 2.2.5
Data may be accessed online without charge.
computer with software to import ARC/INFO GIS data
19990702
Endangered Species Recovery Program
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US
559 453 1227
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FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time
none
none