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

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2021-05-31

Citation

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.

Summary

Spatial analysis and statistical summaries of the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) provide land managers and decision makers with a general assessment of management intent for biodiversity protection, natural resource management, and recreation access across the nation. The PAD-US 2.1 Combined Fee, Designation, Easement feature class in the full inventory (with Military Lands and Tribal Areas from the Proclamation and Other Planning Boundaries feature class) was modified to remove overlapping designations, avoiding massive overestimation in protected area statistics, and simplified by the following six PAD-US attributes to support user needs for raster analysis data: Category, Manager Type, Manager Name, Designation [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
PAD-US Team
Originator :
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP)
Metadata Contact :
PAD-US Team
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
Data Owner :
Science Analytics and Synthesis
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

Attached Files

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PADUS2_1Diss6Attri_Conus.zip
“PAD-US 2.1 CONUS Raster - Dissolved on 6 PAD-US Attributes” 		568.96 MB application/zip
PADUS2_1Diss6Attri_Raster_HI.zip
“PAD-US 2.1 Hawaii Raster - Dissolved on 6 PAD-US Attributes” 		22.03 MB application/zip
PADUS2_1Diss6Attri_Raster_AK.zip
“PAD-US 2.1 Alaska Raster - Dissolved on 6 PAD-US Attributes” 		195.8 MB application/zip
PADUS_IMG_Raster_Diss6AttriTable.py
“Python script used to create Raster files” 		36.7 KB text/x-python
PAD_US2_1_RasterAnalysisFile_MetadataXML.zip
“PAD-US 2.1 Raster Analysis File Metadata XML” 		12.91 KB application/zip

Purpose

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.

Rights

Public Domain. Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.

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