| Abstract: | A dynamic system to enter, store, retrieve, and analyze Federal land-treatment data. More information and access to data available at: http://greatbasin.wr.usgs.gov/ltdl
Across the country, public land managers make hundreds of decisions each year that influence landscapes and ecosystems within the lands they manage. Many of these decisions involve vegetation manipulations known as land treatments. Land treatments include activities such as removal or alteration of plant biomass, seeding burned areas, and herbicide applications. Data on these land treatments are usually stored at local offices, and gathering information across large spatial areas can be difficult. There is a need to centralize and store treatment data for Federal agencies involved in land treatments because these data are useful to land managers for policy and management and to scientists for developing sampling designs and studies.
The Land Treatment Digital Library (LTDL) was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to catalog information about land treatments on Federal lands in the western United States for all interested parties. The flexible framework of the library allows for the storage of a wide variety of data in different formats. The LTDL currently stores previously established land treatments or what often are called legacy data. The project was developed and has been refined based on feedback from partner agencies and stakeholders, with opportunity for the library holdings to expand as new information becomes available.
The library contains data in text, tabular, spatial, and image formats. Specific examples include project plans and implementation reports, monitoring data, spatial data files from geographic information systems, digitized paper maps, and digital images of land treatments. The data are entered by USGS employees and are accessible through a searchable web site. The LTDL can be used to respond to information requests, conduct analyses and other forms of information syntheses, produce maps, and generate reports for DOI managers and scientists and other authorized users. |
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| ProdID: | 97936 |
| Citation Author: | Pilliod, David |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2009-3095 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Land Treatment Digital Library; 2009; FS; 2009-3095; Pilliod, David |
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| Text: | Land Treatment Digital Library; 2009; FS; 2009-3095; Pilliod, David |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3095/ |
| Date Other: | Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
