Data · collection · 1998
ROADVEG - Maintenance Division, Roadside Vegetation
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The Utah Department of Transportation, in collaboration with Utah State University, developed a relational database and GIS, dubbed ROADVEG, that encodes land and vegetation attributes for roadsides, adjacent lands, and context landscapes.
Description
Road segment data constitute the basic nomenclatural and spatial references to the UDOT region number, route number, travel direction, from and to mile-markers, and survey date for the road segments surveyed.
Five fields of coded relational data assign county, ecoregion, watershed, landform, and wetlands attributes to each variable-length road segment. Seven fields of coded relational data form an abstract of (1) the vegetation types along the right-of-way and in the nearby and greater landscape context; (2) the ranked similarity between the right-of-way vegetation and the context vegetation; and (3) the structure and general composition of the three primary vegetational layers - trees, shrubs, and herbs.
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Relational tables also provide vegetational composition for encoded vegetation types. Scientific names, common names, families, origins, and management status as a noxious weed, invasive species, or special status species, are also related to vegetation types for all plants encountered. Via the ArcView GIS display, users are able to query and display various vegetational attributes as needed.
To date, about 1,360 linear miles of Utah roadways have been field-assessed and scored. As funding becomes available, the remainder of the state's major roadways will be inventoried. The purpose of the database is to encode land and vegetation attributes for roadsides, adjacent lands, and context landscapes.
Geographic Description: Utah Methodology Description: Via the ArcView GIS display, users are able to query and display various vegetational attributes as needed. Please contact Point of Contact for more information concerning process for ROADVEG database. Supplementary Information: Information for this metadata was taken from the report - U.S. Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Plants Proceedings of the Workshop on Databases, Gainesville, Florida, September 24-25, 1997.
Links
Get the data
- GET DATA invader.dbs.umt.edu ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214608224-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214608224-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Exotic Vegetation · Not provided
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214608224-SCIOPS | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/exotic-vegetation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |