2011122309173300FALSE20111223091929002011122309210700{DAD64718-890E-4206-ADC3-713D95550C15}\\SHADOW\iitf\trinidad_tobago\Deliverables\DVD_Deliverables\GIS_Data\Trinidad\Raster\trinidad_forest_type_lancover_28july2011.imgHelmer, E.H. The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service.2012trinidad_forest_type_lancover_28july2011.imgremote-sensing imageRuzycki, T.S., Benner, J. The Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University.The government of Trinidad and TobagoHelmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the Landsat imagery through the Landsat Science Team. The website for the Landsat data is http://glovis.usgs.govMicrosoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000enForest types and land cover of Trinidad, West Indies.Tropical forest managers need detailed maps of forest types for REDD+, but spectral similarity among forest types; cloud and scan-line gaps; and scarce vegetation ground plots make producing such maps with satellite imagery difficult. How can managers map tropical forest tree communities with satellite imagery given these challenges? Here we describe a case study of mapping tropical forests to floristic classes with gap-filled Landsat imagery by judicious combination of field and remote sensing work. For managers, we include background on current and forthcoming solutions to the problems of mapping detailed tropical forest types with Landsat imagery. In the study area, Trinidad and Tobago, class characteristics like deciduousness allowed discrimination of floristic classes. We also discovered that we could identify most of the tree communities in (1) imagery with fine spatial resolution of 61 m; (2) multiseason fine resolution imagery (viewable with Google Earth); or (3) Landsat imagery from different dates, particularly imagery from drought years, even if decades old, allowing us to collect the extensive training data needed for mapping tropical forest types with ‘‘noisy’’ gap-filled imagery. Further, we show that gap-filled, synthetic multiseason Landsat imagery significantly improves class-specific accuracy for several seasonal forest associations. The class-specific improvements were better for comparing classification results; for in some cases increases in overall accuracy were small. These detailed mapping efforts can lead to new views of tropical forest landscapes. Here we learned that the xerophytic rain forest of Tobago is closely associated with ultramafic geology, helping to explain its unique physiognomy.ground condition20012008CompleteAs needed-62.084986-60.81604710.9433379.449728600448.006253738688.0062531045317.1240001209867.124000Noneland coverforestsGap-filled Landsat imageryMultitemporal imageryBiodiversityREDD+DeciduousnessFloristic compositionTrinidadWest IndiesRepublic of Trinidad and TobagoNoneCaribbeanConsent of the Forestry Division and the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad and Tobago required.Consent of the Forestry Division and the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad and Tobago required.Raster DatasetEileen HelmerThe International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest ServiceResearchermailing address

Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba,

Rio PiedrasPR00926USA970-498-2644ehelmer@fs.fed.usM-F 8-5 MST or MDTHelmer, E.H, The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service.2012manuscriptCitation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.Helmer, E.H., USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry Ruzycki, T.S., Colorado State University, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands Benner, J., Colorado State University, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.unknownunknownunknownfile://\\SHADOW\iitf\trinidad_tobago\Deliverables\DVD_Deliverables\GIS_Data\Trinidad\Raster\trinidad_forest_type_lancover_28july2011.imgLocal Area Network0020.000Raster DatasetThe Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University2012remote-sensing image mosaicThe U.S. Geological Survey provided the Landsat imagery through the Landsat Science Team. The website for the Landsat data is http://glovis.usgs.gov For details on how this mosaic was created, please see: Displayed in map format: Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.30-meter resolutiononline20012008ground conditionLandsat mosaicHelmer, E.H. The International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service2012manuscriptCitation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.nonedigital and hardcopymanuscriptDescribes methods used to create this dataset.Tom RuzyckiThe Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State UniversityRemote Sensing and GIS Analyst / Cartographermailing address

Colorado State University, 1490 Campus Delivery

Fort CollinsCO80523-1490USA970-491-2831970-491-2713tom.ruzycki@colostate.eduM-F 8-5 MST or MDTFor a detailed description of how this data was created, please see: Citation: Helmer, E. H., T. S. Ruzycki, J. Benner, S. M. Voggesser, B. P. Scobie, C. Park, D. W. Fanning and S. Ramnarine. 2012. Detailed maps of tropical forest types are within reach: forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and multiseason fine-resolution imagery. Forest Ecology and Management 279, 147-166.ERDAS Imagine 9.3.2manuscript2008-2011unknownunknownunknownunknownMicrosoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000trinidad_forest_type_lancover_28july2011.img600448.006253738688.0062531209867.1241045317.1241-62.084986-60.81604710.9433379.4497281enFGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial MetadataFGDC-STD-001-1998local timeTom RuzyckiThe Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State Universitymailing addressFort CollinsCO80523-1490

Colorado State University, 1490 Campus Delivery

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Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba,

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