U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program, 20160513, GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems 2011: U.S. Geological Survey: Boise, ID, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/gaplandcover/. doi:10.5066/F7ZS2TM0.
Summary
The GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems represents a highly thematically detailed land cover map of the U.S. The GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems dataset is produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the LANDFIRE Program. The GAP produces data and tools that help meet critical national challenges such as biodiversity conservation, renewable energy development, climate change adaptation, and infrastructure investment. Learn more about GAP and other GAP data (including protected areas and species habitat maps) at https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov. GAP/LANDFIRE data download and metadata: https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/gaplandcover/data
Summary
The GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems represents a highly thematically detailed land cover map of the U.S. The GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems dataset is produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the LANDFIRE Program. The GAP produces data and tools that help meet critical national challenges such as biodiversity conservation, renewable energy development, climate change adaptation, and infrastructure investment. Learn more about GAP and other GAP data (including protected areas and species habitat maps) at https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov.
The GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems Data are developed to support biodiversity conservation and fire and fuels management planning. Specifically the data are used to:
Identify the types of vegetation in a particular state or assessment unit.
Explore relationships between vegetation types, elevation, soils, slope, and aspect.
Use as input into wildlife habitat, hydrologic, land use, conservation planning,
and climate change models.
Use as baseline from which to measure the impacts of climate change on vegetation.
Overlay with protected areas data (PAD-US; http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/)
to identify ownership and protection status of vegetation types.
Rights
This database, identified as GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems 2011 , has been approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although this database has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, the database is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.