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MoRAP Project: Vegetation Mapping for National Park Service-Phase 1
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Location: George Washington Carver National Monument, Pea Ridge Military Park and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.
- Provide quantitative samples and analyses of data for all major current vegetation types.
- Provide a fine-resolution current vegetation maps for the park with appropriate attributes in a GIS database.
As part of a nation-wide vegetation mapping effort, the basic products will include (1) a vegetation report with vegetation types named according to or cross-walked to the most current version of the provisional National Vegetation Classification content (http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/) based on field plot sampling and tabular summaries of plot data by vegetation type, (2) an attributed existing vegetation map, (3) a key to classified vegetation types, (4) photos that represent all mapped types, (5) classification plot data entered into the most recent existing version of the NPS Vegetation Inventory PLOTS database, and (5) an accuracy assessment report of the final map produced independently.