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North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frame: Continental United States

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Publication Date
Time Period
2021

Citation

Cox, J.H., Straw, B.R., and Reichert, B.E., 2022, North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frames: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XBOCVV.

Summary

This shapefile represents the offshore grid-based sampling frame intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). The grid consists of 10 km x 10 km cells spanning the oceanic waters surrounding the continental United States.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Brian E Reichert
Originator :
James H Cox III, Brian E Reichert, Bethany R Straw
Metadata Contact :
FORT Metadata Specialist
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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CONUS_Offshore_Sample_Frame.xml
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Purpose

This grid-based sample frame is intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program. Researchers collecting bat data can assign their georeferenced bat data to a grid cell in this sample frame, which can then be used in analyses of bat data.

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