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Overview
Rock Creek Park is one of eleven parks inventoried in the National Captial Region (NCR) Vegetation Inventory Project in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Rock Creek Park encompasses 1,129 hectares in the District of Columbia, of the Northern Piedmont and Coastal Plain ecological region. Rock Creek Park had a vegetation inventory previously done in 1998 as a Vegetation Mapping Program prototype. During the NCR project, Rock Creek Park was remapped to ensure it had a vegetation classification similar to the other NCR parks.The National Capital Region Parks Vegetation Inventory Project delivers many geospatial and vegetation data products, including an in-depth project report discussing methods and results, which include descriptions to vegetation associations, field keys to vegetation associations, map classification, and map-class descriptions. The suite of products also includes a database of vegetation plots, and accuracy assessment (AA) sites; digital images of field sites; digital aerial imagery; digital maps; a contingency table listing AA results; and a geodatabase of vegetation, field sites (vegetation plots, and AA sites), aerial imagery, project boundary, and metadata.
Products
Products for the NCR Vegetation Inventory and the 1998 Rock Creek Park Vegetation Inventory are included below.
The products of vegetation mapping projects are stored and managed in the National Park Service's Data Store, a repository for documents and publications relating to park resources. From the highlighted items below, click on the type of information you are looking for.
The products of vegetation mapping projects are stored and managed in the National Park Service's Data Store, a repository for documents and publications relating to park resources. From the highlighted items below, click on the type of information you are looking for.
Last updated: July 24, 2024