Accuracy Assessment Report - the USGS

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A NatureServe Technical ReportPrepared for the National Park Service under Cooperative Agreement H 5028 01 0435Citation: Govus, Thomas E., Regan Lyons Smyth, Rickie D. White, Jr. 2010. AccuracyAssessment: Kings Mountain National Military Park. NatureServe: Durham, North Carolina.© 2010 NatureServeNatureServe6114 Fayetteville Road, Suite 109Durham, NC 27713919-484-7857International Headquarters1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15 th FloorArlington, VA 22209www.natureserve.orgNational Park ServiceSoutheast Regional OfficeAtlanta Federal Center1924 Building100 Alabama St., S.W.Atlanta, GA 30303404-562-3163The view and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not beinterpreted as representing the opinions of policies of the U.S. Government. Mention of tradenames or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government.Electronic files have been provided to the National Park Service in addition to hard copies.Current information on all vegetation communities mentioned in this report can be found onNatureServe Explorer at www.natureserve.org/explorer.NatureServe King’s Mountain NMP AA ii
AcknowledgementsOur team prepared this report in cooperation with the Cumberland Piedmont Inventory andMonitoring Network, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Network coordinatorTeresa Leibfreid provided technical support whenever issues arose that needed to be addressed.Shepard McAninch, ecologist for the Cumberland Piedmont I & M Network, and Steve Thomas,Long-term Ecological Monitoring (LTEM) coordinator for Cumberland Piedmont Network, alsoassisted with field data collection.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, Kyung-Ah Koo, a student working for CRMS, and Mark Whited, a photointerpreter/ecologist at CRMS,were actively involved in the creation of the vegetation map. We’re grateful for their help inproviding data and answering the questions that arose in the process of conducting the accuracyassessment.Several other NatureServe Southeast staff assisted with various aspects of this accuracyassessment. We would like to thank Milo Pyne and Lindsey Smart for their assistance withassessment point selection, field data collection, data entry, and data analysis.NatureServe King’s Mountain NMP AA iii
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Page 15 and 16: ReferencesBailey, R. G.; Avers, P.
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