Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Central American Commission on Environment and Development - CCAD, U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID, International Resources Group Ltd. - IRG, The Nature Conservancy - TNC, and Winrock International - WI Publication_Date: 19981231 Title: Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status Edition: 1.00 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster, vector Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Palisades, NY Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4W37T87 Description: Abstract: The Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status consists of GIS coverages of vegetation classes (forests, woodlands, savannas, shrubs, grasslands, wetlands, rocks, sand, soils, inland waters, parks and reserves) for Central America, derived from 1-kilometer resolution Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery. This data set is produced by Proyecto Ambiental Regional de Centroamerica/Central America Protected Areas Systems (PROARCA/CAPAS), a conservation partnership of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Resources Group, Ltd. (IRG), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Winrock International (WI), and is distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). Purpose: To identify remaining natural vegetation types in Central America. Supplemental_Information: The data set used in this gap analysis is comprised of the most spatially detailed data set on protected areas, vegetation, and ecoregion data ever assembled for the region as a whole. The following digital geospatial data were compiled for the gap analysis: Country boundaries (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, 1:1 Million, Digital Chart of the World, ESRI, Inc. 1993); Vegetation and Landcover map (1:2 Million, PROARCA/CAPAS, 1998); Mesoamerican protected areas network systems (1:1 Million, WCS, 1996); Digital Elevation Model (1 km grid, USGS EROS Data Center, 1996); Ecoregions (1:15 Million, Dinerstein, et al., 1995). Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19920101 Ending_Date: 19931231 Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -92.000000 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -78.000000 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 19.000000 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 6.000000 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Data Granularity Theme_Keyword: Country Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO Topic Theme_Keyword: Biota Theme_Keyword: Farming Theme_Keyword: Geoscientific Information Theme_Keyword: Imagery/Base Maps/Earth Cover Theme_Keyword: Inland Waters Theme_Keyword: Oceans Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: SEDAC Theme Theme_Keyword: Conservation Theme_Keyword: Land Use Theme_Keyword: Remote Sensing Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD Science Keywords, Version 8.6 Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE THERMAL PROPERTIES > LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONSERVATION Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CIESIN Location Terms, Version 3.1 Place_Keyword: Central America Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: The Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Resources Group, Ltd. (IRG), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Winrock International (WI), and Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold the copyright of this data set. Users are prohibited from any commercial, non-free resale, or redistribution without explicit written permission from CCAD, USAID, IRG, TNC, WI, and CIESIN. Users should acknowledge CCAD, USAID, IRG, TNC, WI, and CIESIN as the source used in the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the use of this data set. CCAD, USAID, IRG, TNC, WI, and CIESIN also request reprints of any publications and notification of any redistributing efforts. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Science and Stewardship Department, Latin American and the Caribbean Division Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1815 North Lynn Street City: Arlington State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 22209 Country: USA Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +1-703-841-2722 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: xli@tnc.org Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/lulc/lulc-central-american-vegetation-cover-classification/sedac-logo.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Data_Set_Credit: This work was supported by Proyecto Ambiental Regional de Centroamerica/Central America Protected Areas Systems (PROARCA/CAPAS), a conservation partnership of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Resources Group, Ltd. (IRG), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Winrock International. It was primarily funded by USAID, while components of this work were additionally supported by TNC and NASA. Native_Data_Set_Environment: Windows Data_Quality_Information: Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Using a gap analysis approach, a map of existing and proposed protected areas was overlaid on the vegetation map to analyze the protection status of vegetation types. Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster Raster_Object_Information: Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell Row_Count: 831 Column_Count: 1437 Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. 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