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PAD-US 4.0 Raster Analysis

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2005
End Date
2024

Citation

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2024, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 4.0: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96WBCHS.

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 4.0 Combined Fee, Designation, Easement feature classes in the Full Inventory Database (with Military Lands and Tribal Areas from the Proclamation and Other Planning Boundaries feature classes) were modified to prioritize overlapping designations, avoiding massive overestimation in protected area statistics, and simplified by the following PAD-US attributes to support user needs for raster analysis data: Manager Type, Manager Name, [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP)
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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PADUS40_RasterAnalysisFile_MetadataXML.xml
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View 		61.34 KB application/fgdc+xml
CreatePADUSRasterFromVectorAnalysisPython3.py 32.82 KB text/x-python
52.73 MB application/x-zip-compressed
13.8 MB application/x-zip-compressed
732.04 MB application/x-zip-compressed

Purpose

This raster analysis 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 from the PAD-US Vector Analysis File (including Census state boundaries to fill areas not included in the PAD-US polygon data) to prioritize and remove overlapping management designations, facilitate the combination of the PAD-US raster with other raster data, and also to provide protected area statistics in raster format. GAP Status Code, a measure of management intent to protect biodiversity, was used to prioritize overlapping management designations during Vector Analysis (see Spatial Analysis and Statistics item associated with this data release), with highest priority given to GAP Status 1 areas. See the PAD-US Website https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/protected-areas for more information.

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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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Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 4 completed by the Protected Areas Database of the Unites States Team/Gap Analysis Project/Science Analytics and Synthesis/Core Science Systems on April 24, 2024. To review the changes made, see the “VersHist_PADUS_SpatialAnalysisAndStatistics.txt”. file contained in the Attached Files section of each PAD-US Spatial Analysis and Statistics child item.

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