Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Vegetation Map 2016
Dates
Publication Date
2021-01-22
Start Date
2010
End Date
2016
Citation
Jacobi, J.D., 2021, Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Vegetation Map 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7JM28KG.
Summary
This data layer identifies the boundaries of the mapped plant communities for the vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands, island of Hawaii.
Summary
This data layer identifies the boundaries of the mapped plant communities for the vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands, island of Hawaii.
This vegetation map was produced to serve as an updated habitat base for management of natural resources of the Hakalau Forest Unit (HFU) of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on the island of Hawai‘i. The map is based on a vegetation map originally produced as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hawai‘i Forest Bird Survey to depict the distribution, structure, and composition of plant communities on the island of Hawai‘i as they existed in 1977. The current map has been updated to represent current conditions of plant communities in the HFU, based on WorldView 2 imagery taken in 2012 and very high-resolution imagery collected by Pictometry International in 2010 to 2014. The accuracy assessment plots were use to evaluate the accuracy of the resulting vegetation map.
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Map of the Hakalau Forest Unit showing dominant tree species (by J.D. Jacobi).