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ON THE COVER National Park Service staff record field data for a thematic accuracy assessment of a vegetation map at Joshua Tree National Park. National Park Service photograph by Chris Lea.
Thematic Accuracy Assessment Procedures National Park Service Vegetation Inventory, Version 2.0 Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/NRR—2010/204 Chris Lea National Park Service Vegetation Inventory P.O. Box 25287 (Academy Place) Denver, CO 80225 Anthony C. Curtis National Park Service Southeast Coast Inventory and Monitoring Network P.O. Box 806 Saint Marys, GA 31558 June 2010 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Program Center Fort Collins, Colorado
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Page 13 and 14: Appendices and Exhibits Appendix A.
Page 15 and 16: Executive Summary This guidance is
Page 17 and 18: Acknowledgments Debbie Johnson (Aer
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necessary, although this knowledge
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can work well if visibility is suff
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process would have a significant de
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ecognizes a transition at all, it i
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sites to assure that the prescribed
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4.1 Accuracy Assessment Data The fu
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Table 8: Numerical example of a sam
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are two forms of class-specific acc
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The fraction of the target area wit
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4.7 Lumped Classes One common modif
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In other cases, vegetation types th
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5.0 Reporting Requirements Each NPS
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Federal Geographic Data Committee.
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Thomas, K., T. Keeler-Wolf, J. Fran
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For thematic accuracy assessment of
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many sites near these access routes
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(1) We created a buffer theme of al
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Appendix C. Examples of Providing F
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Figure 4A. Acceptable. Observation
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Appendix D. How to Represent Accura
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into account the considerations abo
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Continuous Cover Continuous Variabl
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Inclusion Inference Population (Inf
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Normal Distribution Observation Obs
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Sample Unit Sampling Design Samplin
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Exhibit F. Examples of Contingency
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Exhibit H. Decision Tree for Reloca
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OPTIONAL FIELDS: 15. List the most
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