Andrew C. Ritchie
Aaron T. Freeman
Patrick B. Shafroth
2017
Vegetation habitat units derived from 2011 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington
Vector Digital Data Set (Polygon)
data release
10.5066/F75B00N4
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, California
U.S. Geological Survey
https://doi.org/10.5066/F75B00N4
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/591dc198e4b0a7fdb43f3f17
Melissa M. Foley
Patrick B. Shafroth
Matthew M. Bierne
Rebecca Paradis
Andrew C. Ritchie
2017
Ecological parameters in the Elwha River estuary before and during dam removal
data release
10.5066/F75B00N4
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA
U.S. Geological Survey
https://doi.org/10.5066/F75B00N4
Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 3 September 2011* 0.3-meter-resolution aerial imagery (Microsoft/Digital Globe) at a scale of 1:1500.
*Image date of 3-Sep corrected in metadata. During product generation the imagery date was believed to be 8-25-2011, as reported by DigitalGlobe reseller.
Data were collected/produced to monitor and assess changes to coastal habitats during dam removal on the Elwha River, Clallam County, WA, USA.
20110903
ground condition
None planned
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48.150433088
48.141601516
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:591dc198e4b0a7fdb43f3f17
USGS Thesaurus
coastal ecosystems
coastal processes
habitats
vegetation
ecological processes
human impacts
geospatial datasets
Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) keywords
ecological change
dam
human impacts on habitats
dam removal
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
geoscientificInformation
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Elwha River
Port Angeles
Clallam County
United States of America
Washington
Olympic Peninsula
None.
USGS-authored or produced data and information are in the public domain from the U.S. Government and are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize and acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service as the originator(s) of the dataset and in products derived from these data.
Patrick B Shafroth
U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Region
Research Ecologist
mailing address
2150 Centre Avenue Bldg C
Fort Collins
CO
80526
United States
970-226-9327
970-226-9230
shafrothp@usgs.gov
NPS, USGS
Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.4.1 (Build 5686) Service Pack N/A (Build N/A)
Melissa M. Foley
Jonathan A. Warrick
Andrew Ritchie
Andrew W. Stevens
Patrick B. Shafroth
Jeffrey J. Duda
Matthew M. Beirne
Rebecca Paradis
Guy Gelfenbaum
Randall McCoy
Erin S. Cubley
2017
Coastal habitat and biological community response to dam removal on the Elwha River
Ecological Society of America, Washington DC
Ecological Monographs
http://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1268
No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted.
No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted.
Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
A formal accuracy assessment of the horizontal positional information in the data set has not been conducted.
A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the data set has either not been conducted, or is not applicable.
Digital Globe
2011
Microsoft/DigitalGlobe 2011-09-03
Raster Digital Data (Aerial Imagery)
Digital Globe
Digital Globe
https://browse.digitalglobe.com/imagefinder/showBrowseMetadata?catalogId=5060010098E45A01
20000
Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources
20110903
ground condition
Microsoft/DigitalGlobe 20110903
provided high-resolution imagery showing ground conditions
identify project area and create clip extent for aerial imagery
20150330
Delineate vegetation units from aerial imagery and field-mapped data
20150501
Revise polygon boundaries for consistency with geomorphic units, revise map units to produce fewer more generalized categories, calculate area values
20160430
Keywords section of metadata edited for consistency across the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and to further optimize discovery in search engines and data catalogs. Metadata was modified to bring up to current USGS PCMSC standards. Minor typos were corrected. No data information was changed.
20180719
Susan A Cochran
U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Geologist
mailing and physical address
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz
CA
95060-5792
USA
(831) 460-7545
scochran@usgs.gov
Corrected Point of Contact and Metadata Contact phone number prefix.
20180905
Susan A Cochran
U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
mailing and physical
2885 Mission St.
Santa Cruz
CA
95060
United States
831-460-7545
scochran@usgs.gov
Edited metadata to add keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword. No data were changed.
20201019
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
Mailing and Physical
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
Performed minor edits to the metadata to correct typos. No data were changed
20211013
U.S. Geological Survey
Susan A. Cochran
Geologist
Mailing and Physical
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz
CA
95060
831-460-7545
scochran@usgs.gov
Vector
G-polygon
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Universal Transverse Mercator
10
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0.0
500000.0
0.0
coordinate pair
0.6096
0.6096
Meter
D_North_American_1983
GRS_1980
6378137.0
298.257222101
Attribute Table
Table containing attribute information associated with the data set.
Producer defined
OBJECTID
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
VEG_DESC
Vegetative cover types developed using aerial image interpretation with ground-truth surveys to assess changes to coastal vegetation and habitats during removal of two dams on the Elwha River, Clallam County, WA, USA.
Producer defined
Dunegrass
Plant communities dominated by Leymus mollis (American dunegrass) with generally high diversity of forb species.
Producer defined
Emergent marsh transition
Plant assemblages including relatively pure emergent marsh transition plants such as Juncus spp. (rushes), Carex spp. (sedges), Potentilla anserina (Pacific silverweed), Rumex salicifolius (willow dock), and Eleocharis palustris (spike rush). In addition, this vegetation cover type includes vegetation that typically occurs between the narrow bands of emergent marsh transition vegetation that are subject to regular and relatively large tidally-driven water level fluctuations and patches of riparian shrub or riparian forest that typically are inundated by river flooding vs. tidal fluctuations.
Producer defined
Mixed pioneer vegetation
Generally sparse cover of early colonizing taxa adapted to highly disturbed, high light conditions that may also be nutrient-poor or salty.
Producer defined
Mixed riparian forest
Mature forests composed of deciduous and coniferous trees with shrub understory. Common overstory trees include Acer macrophyllum (bigleaf maple), Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (black cottonwood), Alnus rubra (red alder), Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir), Thuja plicata (western red cedar), and Abies grandis (grand fir).
Producer defined
Riparian shrub
Plant assemblages characterized by high shrub cover, including: Rosa nutkana (Nutka rose), Rosa pisocarpa (clustered wild rose), Crataegus douglasii (black hawthorne), Lonicera involucrata (black twinberry), Malus fusca (Pacific crab apple), Oemleria cerasiformis (Indian-plum), Rubus spectabilis (salmonberry), and Symphoricarpos albus (common snowberry).
Producer defined
Roads, residential structures and yards, upland veg
Disturbed land dominated by anthropogenic activities and structures.
Producer defined
Willow-alder forest
Young deciduous forest composed primarily of Salix spp. (willow species) and Alnus rubra (red alder).
Producer defined
Shape_Leng
perimeter of feature in internal units
Producer defined
49.8338318813
4806.7239255
meter
Shape_Area
Area of feature in internal units squared.
Esri
100.454765971
174261.824087
square meter
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U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
U.S. Geological Survey
mailing and physical
Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Mail Stop 302
Denver
CO
80225
United States
1-888-275-8747
sciencebase@usgs.gov
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/591dc198e4b0a7fdb43f3f17
https://doi.org/10.5066/F75B00N4
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20211013
USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
mailing and physical address
2885 Mission St
Santa Cruz
CA
95060-5792
USA
831-427-4747
pcmsc_data@usgs.gov
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998