EcologicHabitat_WCV

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife

Publication_Date: 20060516

Publication_Time: unknown

Title: EcologicHabitat_WCV

Edition: 2006A

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Vermont wildlife crossing value

Issue_Identification: 2006A

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Waterbury, VT

Publisher: Vermont Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

Other_Citation_Details: Tile Structure - STATE

Description:

Abstract:

WCV describes the value of the Wildlife Habitat Suitability as it approaches the state highway system. This analysis was designed to use the Wildlife Habitat Suitability coverage (EcologicHabitat_WLH) to identify sections of the roadways that are associated with high Wildlife Habitat Suitability. The values of the WCV range from 1-10, ten being the most signifigant and 1 being the least signifigant. The relative ranking systems allows for relative priority areas within different regions. This provides a roadway specific description of potential WLH and may be useful for purposes of transportation planning and identification of sites that may be priority areas for wildlife crossing structures.
The Wildlife Linkage Habitat Analysis uses landscape scale data to identify or predict the location of potentially significant wildlife linkage habitats (WLH) associated with state roads throughout Vermont. For purposes of this project, WLH is a term used to describe those habitats associated with Vermont roads where wildlife move, migrate, and access various other habitats and parts of their range (similar to, but broader than, wildlife corridors). This project relied on available GIS data including: (a) land use and land cover data; (b) development density data (E911 sites); and (c) contiguous or "core" habitat data from the University of Vermont. The GIS conserved lands data was also used for this project as a way of analyzing the feasibility for conserving or ranking potentially significant WLHs identified as a result of this project. These data layers were classified according to their relative significance with respect to wildlife movement and habitat areas. A second analysis was complete to relate WLH to associated roads. The resulting spatial layer (WCV) was a polyline assigned with a value between 1 and 10, one being of the lowest signifigance and ten being the most signifigant.

Purpose:

The analysis, in conjunction with the newly updated wildlife road mortality data, provides a scientifically based, planning tool that will assist the Department and VTrans in understanding, addressing and mitigating the effects of roads on wildlife movement, mortality, habitat and public safety early in the design process for transportation projects. Site-specific use of this data will still require field verification and incorporation of additional data on existing terrain, vegetation, developed lands, and associated highway structures such as guardrails and culverts that influence wildlife movement.

Supplemental_Information:

See "Vermont Wildlife Linkage Habitat Analysis", dated May 16, 2006 for more information.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20060516

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.454162

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.465281

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.018361

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.722789

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: biota

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: roadkill

Theme_Keyword: wildlife

Theme_Keyword: habitat

Theme_Keyword: corridor

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Vermont

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Temporal_Keyword: 2006

Access_Constraints:

VCGI and the State of Vermont claims no representations of any kind, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data. This data is for informational use and should not be used to evaluate driving conditions.

Use_Constraints:

These data are the result of a regional scale Wildlife Habitat Linkage Assesment. The analysis uses pre-existing publicly available information and is constraigned to the limitations of those foundation layers. (1)LandLandcov_LCLU, released in 1997 has a minimum mapping unit of 2 acres and a grid cell size of 25 meters. (2) EmergencyE911_ESITE is an ongoing project and it is possible that buildings exist that have not yet been included in the data.(3) EcologicHabitat_COREHAB was derived from road information in USGS digital line graphs (RF 1/100,000)and was created by the University of Vermont's Spatial Analysis Laboratory. Therefore this layer contains fewer roads than appear in the State Road Database and some of these features though they might have an effect on habitat connectivity and fragmentation will not be accurately represented in this analysis. The analysis was compiled to provide a regional scale review of wildlife habitat and movement patterns and is designed to be used with wildlife mortality information collected by the Vermont Agency of Transportation and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department . This effort is a preliminary, landscape-scale assessment of Wildlife Linkage Habitat in Vermont. Additional field investigations will be necessary to confirm, on a site-by-site basis, the significance of any given Wildlife Linkage Habitat identified as a result of this analysis. The areas identified through this analysis are 'potential wildlife corridors' and should not assumed to be significant at face value. Please contact a wildlife biologist from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department for assistance in interpreting this information.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Department of Fish and Wildlife

Contact_Person: John Austin

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 5 Perry Street, Suite 40

City: Barre

State_or_Province: VT

Postal_Code: 05641-4266

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 802-476-0199

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 802-476-0129

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: john.austin@anr.state.vt.us

Data_Set_Credit:

Project developed by John Austin, Kevin Viani, and Forrest Hammond of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. This project was developed in accordance with a grant from the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans Research Advisory Council No.RSCH008-967).

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: N/A

Security_Classification: Unclassified

Security_Handling_Description: No Security Considerations

Native_Data_Set_Environment: Arc/Info

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Once completed the model was compared to the known crossing and roadkill (ROADKILL06) information collected by both the Vermont Agency of Transportation and Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. Expert review of the resulting model was completed by the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, Field Biologists.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife

Publication_Date: 20060516

Publication_Time: unknown

Title: Vermont Wildlife Linkage Habitat Analysis

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Waterbury, VT

Publisher:

John Austin, Kevin Viani, and Forrest Hammond of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

WCV data provided to VCGI by Fish and Wildlife Department. VCGI modified metadata provided by data developer to ensure compliance with VCGI's metadata template. Load data into VGIS Data Warehouse for download. ArcMap layer file (*.lyr) provided by Fish and Wildlife was bundled with the data.

Process_Date: 20060619

Process_Time: Unknown

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Steve Sharp

Contact_Organization: VCGI

Contact_Position: GIS Database Administrator

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 24298

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: State Plane Coordinate System

State_Plane_Coordinate_System:

SPCS_Zone_Identifier: 4400

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999964

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -72.500000

False_Easting: 500000.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.001

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001

Planar_Distance_Units: Meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 1 / 298.25722210

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: WCV

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LR_TWN

Attribute_Definition: VTrans town-based route identifier

Attribute_Definition_Source: VTrans

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Refer to LRS2005

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: F_MM

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: T_MM

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: wcv_master

Attribute_Definition: Wildlife crossing value ranking

Attribute_Definition_Source: VTrans/ANR

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

The values of the WCV range from 1-10, ten being the most signifigant and 1 being the least signifigant. The relative ranking systems allows for relative priority areas within different regions. This provides a roadway specific description of potential WLH and may be useful for purposes of transportation planning and identification of sites that may be priority areas for wildlife crossing structures.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: VT Center for Geographic Information

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 1 National Life Dr, Dewey Building, 2nd Floor

City: Montpelier

State_or_Province: VT

Postal_Code: 05620-2001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 585-0820

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: None

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone:

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vcgi@vermont.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9am - 5pm, M-F

Resource_Description: EcologicHabitat_WCV

Distribution_Liability:

VCGI and the State of Vermont make no representations of any kind, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: SHP

Format_Specification: ESRI Shapefile format (compressed to ZIP format)

Format_Information_Content: geospatial data

File_Decompression_Technique: ZIP decompression software

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

https://maps.vcgi.vermont.gov/gisdata/vcgi/packaged_zips/EcologicHabitat_WCV.zip

Access_Instructions: Download from web site.

Offline_Option:

Offline_Media: USB drive

Fees:

No charge when downloading from the internet, and when no custom processing is required.

Ordering_Instructions: Send an email describing data request to vcgi@vermont.gov

Turnaround: About 5 days.

Custom_Order_Process: Send an email describing data request to vcgi@vermont.gov

Technical_Prerequisites: GIS Software

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20060619

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20060619

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: VT Center for Geographic Information

Contact_Person: GIS Database Administrator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 1 National Life Dr, Dewey Building, 2nd Floor

City: Montpelier

State_or_Province: VT

Postal_Code: 05620-2001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 585-0820

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: None

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone:

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: None

Metadata_Use_Constraints: None

Metadata_Security_Information:

Metadata_Security_Classification_System: N/A

Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified

Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: No security considerations