Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 Raster Analysis Files

Publication Date

2021-10-04

Time Period

2021-05-31

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2021, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 Raster Analysis Files: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KJLB3Q.

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This summary of the full Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) inventory was created to provide land managers and decision makers with a general summary of management for biodiversity protection, natural resource management, and recreation access. The full PAD-US inventory is an aggregation of data from managing entities representing the U.S. protected areas network and contains many overlapping boundaries. These raster analysis files were created to remove overlapping management designations to facilitate spatial analyses, including the combination of PAD-US with other raster data, and also to provide protected area statistics. GAP Status Code, a measure of management intent to protect biodiversity, is used to prioritize overlapping management designations during the data rasterization process, with highest priority given to GAP Status 1 areas. See the PAD-US Website https://usgs.gov/gapanalysis/PAD-US for more information.

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