Accuracy Assessment Report - the USGS

Acknowledgements
This report was prepared in cooperation with the Cumberland Piedmont Inventory and Monitoring
Network, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Network coordinator Teresa Leibfreid
quickly responded and provided support whenever issues arose that needed to be addressed, as well as
assisted with field data collection. We also greatly appreciate the contributions of other NPS staff who
provided time on field crews, including Mary Shew, Shawn Waddell, Terri Hogan, Steve Thomas, and
Lillian Scoggins.
Marguerite Madden, Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) at the
University of Georgia (UGA), Tommy Jordan, the Associate Director of CRMS, and Phyllis Jackson, a
photointerpreter/ecologist at CRMS, were actively involved in the creation of the vegetation map. We’re
grateful for their help in providing data and answering the questions that arose in the process of
conducting the accuracy assessment.
Several NatureServe Southeast staff assisted with various aspects of this accuracy assessment. We thank
Regan Lyons Smyth, Carl Nordman, and Mary Russo for their assistance with assessment point selection,
field data collection, data entry, and data analysis.
We further thank Alabama Natural Heritage Program’s Al Schotz for his dedication to both improving the
classification and collecting most of the AA point data in the field. Finally, we thank contractor Maureen
Mulligan for her fieldwork and thoughtful comments on improving the final key to communities.
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