Vegetation Mapping at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park: Photointerpretation Key and Draft Vegetation Map.

摘要

A map of vegetation communities was created for Horseshoe Bend National Military Park to the association level of the National Vegetation Classification System and in a 500 meter buffer zone around the park using the more general Anderson Level II classification. We were provided with the vegetation communities occurring in the park, as determined by NatureServe from ground plots. We overlaid the location of the NatureServe plots on leaf-on color infrared aerial photographs to determine the image signature of vegetation communities in terms of color, tone, texture, and topographic position. We also conducted our own field surveys to refine and verify photointerpretation.