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Landtype Associations for Southeast Wyoming

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Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: William Reiners, Rob Thurston, Department of Botany Publication_Date: 199711 Title: Landtype Associations for Southeast Wyoming Online_Linkage: www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/ecoregion.html Description: Abstract: This dataset is a scientifically based, hierarchical system of map units for southeastern Wyoming that incorporates ecological principles and processes across a range of scales. Data are also available in a separate coverage for southwestern Wyoming, and is under development for the rest of Wyoming. The southeastern area includes all of Natrona, Albany, Platte, Goshen and Laramie Counties and parts of Converse, Niobrara and Carbon Counties. These units are a mapping of terrain features having similar terrain configuration, ecological properties and management implications within which situational landscape-ecosystems can logically and conveniently be defined. While the process of delineation of these units is subjective, the units are hierarchically nested into the structure of the ECOMAP (1993) national hierarchy of ecological units. The data-set includes Landtype Associations as well as higher hierarchical units in which Landtype Associations are imbedded. Landtype Associations are defined by ECOMAP (1993) as units at the "landscape scale" as follows: "groupings of Landtypes or subdivisions of Subsections based upon similarities in geomorphic process, geological rock types, soil complexes, stream types, lakes, wetlands, and series, subseries, or plant association vegetation communities. Repeatable patterns of soil complexes and plant communities are useful in delineating map units at this level. Names of Landtype Associations are often derived from geomorphic history and vegetation community." Mountainous terrain was delineated only at the higher subsection level as finer sub-divisions are the purview of the U.S. Forest Service. Purpose: This dataset is the result of a contract between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the University of Wyoming Dept. of Botany to delineate a hierarchical set of landunits for southeast Wyoming. These results will also contribute to a multi-agency effort to develop a common ecological map of the United States. The purpose of these units is ultimately to provide a framework for organizing data for resource management by ecological units instead of political units. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1976 Ending_Date: 1994 Currentness_Reference: Publication date of sources Status: Progress: complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: potential updates pending need and funding. Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -107.547 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -104.052 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.502 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.997 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Theme_Keyword: ecological unit Theme_Keyword: landscape unit Theme_Keyword: landform Theme_Keyword: landtype association Theme_Keyword: ecosystem Theme_Keyword: ECOMAP Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Place_Keyword: Wyoming Place_Keyword: Southeast Wyoming Place_Keyword: Natrona county Place_Keyword: Albany county Place_Keyword: Platte county Place_Keyword: Goshen county Place_Keyword: Laramie county Place_Keyword: Converse county Place_Keyword: Niobrara county Place_Keyword: Carbon county Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: This dataset has been compiled and interpreted from a broad range of source data, ranging in scale from 1:24,000 to 1:500,000. Please consult the Source section (in Data Quality, Lineage) of this document for more details about the source data and their contribution to this dataset. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Rob Thurston Contact_Organization: Department of Botany Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: Box 3165 University Station City: Laramie State_or_Province: Wyoming Country: USA Postal_Code: 82071 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 307-766-2484 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: thurston@uwyo.edu Hours_of_Service: 9 AM to 5 PM MST Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <URL:http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/images/land_se.gif> Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Landtype associations for southeastern Wyoming Browse_Graphic_File_Type: gif Data_Set_Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management: Jon Johnson, Bill Daniels Native_Data_Set_Environment: The dataset was created in and is stored in Arc/Info 7.0.3 software for Unix operating system. It is a vector coverage with both line and polygon topology. Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: ECOMAP Publication_Date: 1993 Title: National hierarchical framework of ecological units. Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: ECOMAP, USDA Forest Service Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Freeouf, J.A. Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Ecoregions and subregions of Region 2 - Subsections. State of Wyoming. 1:1,000,000 map. Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Denver, CO Publisher: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Daly, C., R.P. Neilson, and D.L. Phillips. Publication_Date: 1994 Title: A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain. Publication_Information: Publication_Place: n/a Publisher: Journal of Applied Meteorology 33 (2):140-158 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Bailey, R.G. Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Ecosystem Geography Publication_Information: Publication_Place: New York Publisher: Springer-Verlag

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Attributing landtype associations is a subjective process. See Horizontal Positional Accuracy for more details.

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Attribute_Accuracy_Value: unknown
Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation: none

Logical_Consistency_Report:

All polygons are closed and adjacent polygons do not have identical attributes. Polygons do not have duplicate labels.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

There are many factors that affect the accuracy of the delineations in the Landtype Association coverage. The main source of error (or uncertainty) is the judgement on our part as to what units should be mapped and the criteria for delineating these units. For each map unit, there was a multitude of decisions to be made. Someone else, using their best judgement, might come up with lines that deviate significantly from ours.

A second source of error is the error associated with the GIS layers used in making the delineations. The main layers that were used and an estimate of the horizontal accuracy for each layer is listed.

Counties (+/- 50 meters); see note 1
DEM (30 meter resolution, +/- 15); see note 2
DEM (90 meter resolution, +/-100); see note 2
Geology (+/- 700); see note 3
Hydrography (+/- 50); see note 2
Hydrologic units (+/- 700); see note 4
Land Cover (+/- 250); derived from Thematic mapper dataset; see note 3
Thematic Mapper (+/- 200); original dataset was not terrain corrected
and was resampled up to 100m resoultion; see note 3

Note 1: Accuracy estimate based on the assumption of a 0.5 mm digitizing error.

Note 2. Accuracy estimate from the "Geo-Positioning Selection Guide" developed by the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (U.S. Government Printing Office: 1992-676-687).

Note 3. Accuracy estimate based on a comparison of the positions of large lakes and reservoirs and major rivers in the GIS layer with the positions of the corresponding features in the USGS 1:100,000 hydrography DLG coverage.

Note 4. Accuracy estimate based on a comparison of the line along the continental divide in the Wind River Range with the corresponding lines in the counties coverage, which forms the boundary between Sublette and Fremont counties.

Some of the arcs in the Landtype Association coverage were taken directly from the source layers, so the errors associated with these arcs carried over to the Landtype Association coverage. Other arcs were digitized on-screen with a variety of background displays. In this case, there was not only the error associated with the GIS layer used for the background display, but also a digitizing error. The most common background display was shaded relief derived from 30 m DEM data, with the display zoomed to a scale of about 1:24,000. When there were distinct topographic features to follow, the lines drawn were within 1 to 2 pixels of the desired location (30-60 m with 30 m DEM data). When the features were less distinct, the position of the line involved more judgement. Often, selected geology polygons were displayed on top of the shaded relief with hatched patterns to guide the digitizing. In this situation, the horizontal accuracy could vary significantly depending on whether the delineation closely followed the relief or the geology.

Since the accuracy associated with a given delineation depends on many factors and since these factors may vary for different parts of the delineation, it is difficult to specify a single number that reflects the true accuracy situation. Lines based on distinct features visible in the 30 m shaded relief displays are going to be more accurate than lines based on 90 m data or lines based on the geology coverage or the hydrologic units coverage. In an effort to document the source/criteria for each delineation and to provide some sense of accuracy, the arcs in the Landtype Association coverage were attributed with a 3-digit code in the SOURCE field. Codes ranging from 101 to 199 indicate lines obtained directly from other coverages, while codes from 201 to 299 indicate lines digitized on-screen with the specified background display. In addition to the SOURCE field, each arc has a NOTE field that contains a brief description of the criteria used in making the delineation.

Completeness_Report:

All the arcs of the Landtype Association coverage have been attributed to indicate the source data and digitizing criteria. All polygons have been attributed with a series of codes representing the hierarchy of landscape units they are part of.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title: Thematic Mapper satellite image data
Originator: Wyoming Gap Analysis Project
Publication_Date: 1994

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Type_of_Source_Media: digital image

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1988
Ending_Date: 1993

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: TM data

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title:: Bedrock Geology <URL:http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/metadata/bedgeol.html>
Originator: Green and Drouillard, USGS
Publication_Date: 1994

Source_Scale_Denominator: 500000

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1985

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: geology

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title:: Digital Elevation Models, 90 meter resolution: <URL:http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/metadata/dem90.html>
Originator: USGS
Publication_Date: unknown

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1961
Ending_Date: 1981

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DEM

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title:: Digital Elevation Models, 30 meter resolution: <URL:http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/metadata/dem30.html>
Originator: USGS
Publication_Date: unknown

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1979
Ending_Date: 1984

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DEM

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title:: Mean annual precipitation data generated using algorithms developed by Daly et al. (1994) Original raster data cell size 5 km.
Originator: Oregon Climate Service
Publication_Date: 1994

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1994

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: precipitation

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title:: Wyoming Land Cover <URL:http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/metadata/landcov.html>
Originator: Wyoming Gap Analysis
Publication_Date: 1994

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1988
Ending_Date: 1993

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: land cover

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title: Hydrological unit delinations
Originator: Wyoming Water Resources Center
Publication_Date: 1976

Source_Scale_Denominator: 500000

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1976

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: hydrologic units

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title:: Digital Line Graphs: hydrography for Wyoming <URL:http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/metadata/hydro100k.html>
Originator: USGS
Publication_Date: 1989

Type_of_Source_Media: digital map

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: unknown

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Hydrography

Source_Contribution: analysis layer

Process_Step:

Process_Description:: These analysis layers were used interactively to compare the information in each. In general, once distinct units were identified at any hierarchical level, they were delineated with data for whichever variable was the principal controlling factor at a given arc along a polygon. This is essentially the "method of controlling variables" described by Bailey (1996) in which the appropriate controlling variable is selected to set the boundary of a particular land unit.
Process_Date: 1996
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: analysis layers

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 867 SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1007 SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 161 Spatial_Reference_Information:

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257 Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: All meaningful attributes are included in the polygon attribute table And arc attribute table (.PAT and .AAT) that accompanies the ARC/INFO coverage. In the polygon attribute table, all coding was done within the fields MCODE, PCODE, SCODE, SSCODE, LTACODE and a descriptive character field, LTANAME. MCODE: this field is either blank of contains an M to indicate mountains. PCODE: This field contains a three digit code to indicate the province. SCODE: This field contains a single uppercase letter (A, B, C, . . .) to indicate the section. SSCODE: This field contains two lowercase letters to indicate the subsection. The first letter can be any letter of the alphabet. The second letter will be either a 'w' for Wyoming to indicate delineations by Reiners and Thurston that significantly differ from Freeouf (1996) or an 'f' for Freeouf where there is relative agreement. LTACODE: This field contains a two digit code to indicate the landtype association. Code Landtype Association 11 Mountain (not subdivided into LTAs) 21 Isolated Mountain 22 Granite Hills 25 Channeled Hills 26 Footslopes 33 Dissected Plateau 35 Breaks 36 Mesa 41 Recessional Escarpment 51 Multiple Cuesta and Valley Complex 52 Single Cuesta 61 Glacial Till and Outwash Hills 71 Rolling Plains 72 Rolling Plains and Alluvial Valleys 82 Major River Valley 83 Lake/Reservoir LTANAME: This field contains the name of the landtype association. For the arc attribute table, all the coding is in the TYPE, SOURCE and NOTE fields. TYPE: This field contains a one or two digit code that indicates the line type. Code Line Type 2 Division 3 Province 4 Section 5 Subsection 6 Landtype Association 11 County Boundary 12 State Boundary SOURCE: this field contains a three digit code that indicates the source GIS layer for the arc, the background display used for on-screen digitizing, or the source map for on-tablet digitizing. Arcs copied directly from specified coverages 101 County boundaries 105 Hydrologic units 106 Geology 107 Hydrography Arcs digitized on-screen with the specified background displays and manually smoothed. 202 Geology 204 Streams 205 30 m shaded relief 206 90 m shaded relief 207 30 m shaded relief with hatched geology following relief using geology as a guide 208 30 m shaded relief with hatched geology following geology primarily 209 90 m shaded relief with hatched geology following geology primarily 215 No background 216 100 m thematic mapper imagery (4,5,3 (RGB)) 218 30 m shaded relief with elevation contour following relief using elevation as a guide 224 90 m shaded relief with streams 226 30 m shaded relief with slope contour at about 4 degrees following relief using contour as a guide 227 30 m shaded relief guided by 60 m shaded relief calculated from 90 m > DEM data reclassified into 50 m intervals 229 30 m shaded relief following relief guided by hatched geology and slope contour at about 4 degrees 230 30 m shaded relief following relief guided by hatched geology and slope contour at about 10 degrees 231 30 m shaded relief with slope contour at about 10 degrees following relief using contour as a guide Arcs digitized from paper maps 301 Lusk (1:100,000, folded) 304 Torrington (1:100,000, folded) 305 Douglas (1:100,000, folded) 306 Laramie (1:100,000, unfolded) 307 Rock River (1:100,000, unfolded) 308 Torrington (1:100,000, unfolded) 309 Baggs (1:100,000, folded) 310 Rawlins (1:100,000, folded) 311 Cheyenne (1:100,000, unfolded) 312 Chugwater (1:100,000, unfolded) NOTE This field contains comments concerning the source of the arc or the criteria used when digitizing the arc. Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: none

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Data Manager
Contact_Organization: Spatial Data and Visualization Center

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address: Box 4008 University Station
City: Laramie
State_or_Province: Wyoming
Country: USA
Postal_Code: 82071

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 307-766-2735

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: n/a

Distribution_Liability:

The distributor shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of this dataset, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate used described in this metadata document. It is strongly recommended that this dataset is directly acquired from the distributor described above and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ARCE (Arc/Info export)
Format_Version_Number: 7.1
Format_Version_Date: 1996
File_Decompression_Technique: Export file was created using defaults, no compression

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: ftp.sdvc.uwyo.edu or <http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse>

Access_Instructions: <http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/howto.html>

Online_Computer_and_Operating_System:

Both the ftp and WWW server which this dataset is available from is a Silicon Graphics Challenge server, running the IRIX 6.2 UNIX operating system.

Fees:

No fees required for downloading datasets that are on-line. Some fees may be required to cover costs of tapes if data are required on tape media.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19980216

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Margo Berendsen

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address: Box 4008 University Station
City: Laramie
State_or_Province: Wyoming
Postal_Code: 82071
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 307-766-2751

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: meh@uwyo.edu

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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