trinidad_WM

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Metadata file identifier

  • c486d71f-b463-11e3-990b-b4b52fc6f2d2

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    Language

  • UNKNOWN

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Tom Ruzycki

    • Organisation name

  • The Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University

    • Position name

  • Remote Sensing and GIS Analyst / Cartographer

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • 970-491-2831

    • Facsimile

  • 970-491-2713

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • Colorado State University, 1490 Campus Delivery

    • Administrative area

  • CO

    • Postal code

  • 80523-1490

    • Electronic mail address

  • tom.ruzycki@colostate.edu

    • Hours of service

  • M-F 8-5 MST or MDT

    • Role

  • publisher

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    Metadata date stamp

  • 2013-08-22

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    Metadata standard name

  • ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata

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    Metadata standard version

  • http://metadata.dgiwg.org/ISO19115/ISO19115_v0_7.htm

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    Spatial representation information
    Number of dimensions

  • 0

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    Identification Information
    Citation
    Title

  • trinidad_WM

    • Date
    Date

  • 2012-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Cited responsible party
    Organisation name

  • Ruzycki, T.S., Benner, J. The Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University. ____________________ The government of Trinidad and Tobago ____________________ Helmer, E.H. The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service.

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • http://fsgeodata.fs.fed.us/rastergateway/caribbean/

    • Role

  • originator

    • Other citation details

  • Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the Landsat imagery through the Landsat Science Team. The website for the Landsat data is http://glovis.usgs.gov

    • Abstract

  • Forest types and land cover of Trinidad, West Indies.

    • Purpose

  • Tropical forest managers need detailed maps of forest types for REDD+, but spectral similarity among forest types; cloud and scan-line gaps; and scarce vegetation ground plots make producing such maps with satellite imagery difficult. How can managers map tropical forest tree communities with satellite imagery given these challenges? Here we describe a case study of mapping tropical forests to floristic classes with gap-filled Landsat imagery by judicious combination of field and remote sensing work. For managers, we include background on current and forthcoming solutions to the problems of mapping detailed tropical forest types with Landsat imagery. In the study area, Trinidad and Tobago, class characteristics like deciduousness allowed discrimination of floristic classes. We also discovered that we could identify most of the tree communities in (1) imagery with fine spatial resolution of 61 m; (2) multiseason fine resolution imagery (viewable with Google Earth); or (3) Landsat imagery from different dates, particularly imagery from drought years, even if decades old, allowing us to collect the extensive training data needed for mapping tropical forest types with ‘‘noisy’’ gap-filled imagery. Further, we show that gap-filled, synthetic multiseason Landsat imagery significantly improves class-specific accuracy for several seasonal forest associations. The class-specific improvements were better for comparing classification results; for in some cases increases in overall accuracy were small. These detailed mapping efforts can lead to new views of tropical forest landscapes. Here we learned that the xerophytic rain forest of Tobago is closely associated with ultramafic geology, helping to explain its unique physiognomy.

    • Credit

  • Helmer, E.H., USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry Ruzycki, T.S., Colorado State University, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands Benner, J., Colorado State University, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.

    • Point of contact
    Individual name

  • Eileen Helmer

    • Organisation name

  • The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service

    • Position name

  • Researcher

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • 970-498-2644

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba,

    • Administrative area

  • PR

    • Postal code

  • 00926

    • Electronic mail address

  • ehelmer@fs.fed.us

    • Hours of service

  • M-F 8-5 MST or MDT

    • Role

  • Point of contact

    • Resource maintenance
    Maintenance and update frequency

  • asNeeded

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Biodiversity

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  • theme

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    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Gap-filled Landsat imagery

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Floristic composition

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Multitemporal imagery

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Deciduousness

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • land cover

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • forests

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • REDD+

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • ISO 19115 Topic Categories

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • West Indies

    • Type

  • place

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Trinidad

    • Type

  • place

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Caribbean

    • Type

  • place

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

    • Type

  • place

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • None

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Resource constraints
    Classification system

  • unknown

    • Handling description

  • unknown

    • Spatial representation type

  • grid

    • Language

  • eng

    • Environment description

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.0.3035

    • Extent
    Geographic element
    West bound longitude

  • -62.084986

    • East bound longitude

  • -60.815936

    • South bound latitude

  • 9.449559

    • North bound latitude

  • 10.943337

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    Content information
    Included with dataset

  • false

    • Feature types

  • VAT_trinidad_WM

    • Feature catalogue citation
    Title

  • unknown

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

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    Distribution information
    Distribution format
    Name

  • ERDAS - ERDAS image files (ERDAS Corporation)

    • Version

  • UNKNOWN

    • Distributor
    Distributor contact
    Individual name

  • Eileen Helmer

    • Organisation name

  • The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service

    • Position name

  • Researcher

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • 970-498-2644

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba,

    • Administrative area

  • PR

    • Postal code

  • 00926

    • Electronic mail address

  • ehelmer@fs.fed.us

    • Transfer options
    On-line resource
    Linkage

  • null4

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    Data quality information
    Report
    Evaluation method description

  • unknown

    • Report
    Evaluation method description

  • unknown

    • Report
    Name of measure

  • horizontal

    • Evaluation method description

  • unknown

    • Report
    Name of measure

  • Vertical

    • Evaluation method description

  • unknown

    • Lineage
    Process step
    Description

  • For a detailed description of how this data was created, please see: Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.

    • Processor
    Individual name

  • Tom Ruzycki

    • Organisation name

  • The Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University

    • Position name

  • Remote Sensing and GIS Analyst / Cartographer

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • 970-491-2831

    • Facsimile

  • 970-491-2713

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • Colorado State University, 1490 Campus Delivery

    • Administrative area

  • CO

    • Postal code

  • 80523-1490

    • Electronic mail address

  • tom.ruzycki@colostate.edu

    • Hours of service

  • M-F 8-5 MST or MDT

    • Source
    Source citation
    Title

  • manuscript

    • Alternate title

  • manuscript

    • Date
    Date

  • 0001-01-01

    • Source
    Description

  • hardcopy

    • Scale denominator
    Denominator

  • 0

    • Source citation
    Title

  • Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps

    • Alternate title

  • manuscript

    • Date
    Date

  • 2012-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Cited responsible party
    Organisation name

  • Helmer, E.H. The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service

    • Role

  • originator

    • Other citation details

  • Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.

    • Source extent
    Description

  • see citation

    • Source
    Description

  • On-line resource

    • Scale denominator
    Denominator

  • 0

    • Source citation
    Title

  • Landsat cloud-cleared and gap-filled mosaic of Tobago, 2001-2008

    • Alternate title

  • Landsat mosaic

    • Date
    Date

  • 2012-01-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Cited responsible party
    Organisation name

  • The Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University

    • Role

  • originator

    • Other citation details

  • The U.S. Geological Survey provided the Landsat imagery through the Landsat Science Team. The website for the Landsat data is http://glovis.usgs.gov For details on how this mosaic was created, please see: Displayed in map format: Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.

    • Source extent
    Description

  • see citation

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