[Metadata] Carbon Assessment of Hawaii - Habitat Status. This layer depicts the status, or degree of disturbance, to plant
communities on the main Hawaiian Islands. Several layers were used to to
create this version (v 3.4). The CAH Land Cover Map was
produced to serve as a base map for
estimating current and future carbon stocks for the main Hawaiian
Islands as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's national carbon
assessment.
The original HabQual layer was developed by Jon Price and Jim Jacobi
based on the mapped land cover units from the Hawaii GAP analysis
program (Gon et al. 2006). This map was revised by combining data on
land use and the “Bare” category from the NOAA C-CAP 2005 map (NOAA
National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and adding road
corridors to the heavily disturbed category based on the Tiger Roads
layer (United States Census Bureau 2014). Additionally, corrections were
made to this version of the map by visually inspecting previously
mapped units and comparing them to recent high-resolution imagery
including WorldView 2 multi-spectral imagery and to very-high resolution
RGB imagery obtained from Pictometry Online (Pictometery International
2014). Changes were made to the map using the program GRID Editor
developed by ARIS B.V. (2014) by Jim Jacobi. Latest edits made in
September 2014. For more information, please see complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/cah_habitat_status_poly.html or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State
of Hawaii, PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: [email protected]; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis/.
