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Historical Land Cover, LOBP eastern sites (Sandy Pond), 1955
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Lake Ontario Biocomplexity Project
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- Historical Land Cover, LOBP eastern sites (Sandy Pond), 1955
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y.
- Publisher
- Lake Ontario Biocomplexity Project
- Online Linkage
- https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-007942
- Abstract
- This shapefile contains polygons representing the historical land cover within the watersheds near Sandy Pond, in New York, on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. These land cover boundaries and types were interpreted from aerial photos dating from 1955.
- Purpose
- To evaluate broad changes in land cover over time.
- Supplemental Information
- This dataset was developed as part of the Lake Ontario Biocomplexity Project. For more information, see: http://ontario.cfe.cornell.edu/
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 1955
- Bounding Box
- West
- -76.208097
- East
- -75.66526
- North
- 43.980103
- South
- 43.609502
- Theme Keyword
- Land Cover
- Land Use
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- ISO Topic Category
- environment
- planningCadastre
- Theme Keyword
- landcover
- environment
- property
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- CUGIR Category
- Place Keyword
- New York
- Lake Ontario
- Sandy Pond
- New York (State)
- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- None
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Person
- Marci Meixler
- Delivery Point
- 104 Rice Hall
- Delivery Point
- Department of Natural Resources
- Delivery Point
- Cornell University
- City
- Ithaca
- State
- NY
- Postal Code
- 14853
- Country
- U.S.A.
- Contact Telephone
- (607) 255-2038
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- (607)255-1895
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- msm10@cornell.edu
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- Unknown
- Completeness Report
- The maps for the historical time periods (1938, 1955, and 1975) are not spatially complete. In all cases the shoreline is most complete but watershed coverage is spotty. North and South Sandy Pond watersheds and South Colwell watershed are represented in part or in full for some years. Floodwood watershed is not represented in any of the historical years. This is because Floodwood and South Colwell are in Jefferson and Lewis Counties. We were unable to locate any historical photos for these counties from any federal, state, or local agency. Private firms were also dead ends for locating historical photos and the NY Office of Real Property Services who purported to have some historical coverage would not allow our project to use their photos. Oswego County had good coverage though in some years even it was not continuous and hence the sometimes incomplete maps for N and S Sandy Ponds. For the purposes of historical analysis for the Biocomplexity project the shorelines and some of the subwatersheds (for which we do stream sampling) can by viewed in their entirety.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- It is important to note that the aerial photos used for this project differed in resolution, scale, and distortion. Therefore the level of detail within each of the landcover maps varies. Additionally, due to this distortion the resulting maps do not align perfectly at boundaries such as shorelines and embayments and even fixed objects. The project group took as much care as possible to get good registration, and achieved the best possible without advanced triangulation and other interpretation techniques that were beyond the scope of this project. Users of these maps should be aware of these limitations and use them as general depictions of the land use and land cover and use them to only evaluate broad changes over time.
- Lineage
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 768
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Planar
- Grid Coordinate System
- Grid Coordinate System Name
- Universal Transverse Mercator
- Universal Transverse Mercator
- UTM Zone Number
- 18
- Transverse Mercator
- Scale Factor at Central Meridian
- 0.999600
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- -75.000000
- Latitude of Projection Origin
- 0.000000
- False Easting
- 500000.000000
- False Northing
- 0.000000
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- coordinate pair
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 0.000256
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.000256
- Planar Distance Units
- meters
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- North American Datum of 1927
- Ellipsoid Name
- Clarke 1866
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378206.400000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 294.978698
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- Polygon
- Entity Type Definition
- Polygon representing the predominant land cover
- Entity Type Definition Source
- Lake Ontario Biocomplexity Project
- Attributes
- AREA
- area of polygon, in square meters (0 to Unbounded)
- Definition Source
- computed
- PERIMETER
- perimeter of polygon, in meters (0 to Unbounded)
- Definition Source
- computed
- COVER
- Value representing the predominant land cover classification
- 1
- OPEN WATER
- 2
- RESIDENTIAL/URBAN
- 3
- COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL/TRANSPORTATION
- 4
- BARE ROCK/SAND/CLAY
- 5
- TRANSITION(ABANDONED LAND, FARMS, ETC..)
- 6
- FOREST/TREES (MIXED STANDS)
- 7
- PASTURE/DAIRY/OTHER AGRICULTURE
- 8
- CROPS, LAND ACTIVELY BEING CROPPED
- 9
- URBAN GRASSES, CITY PARKS, GOLF COURSES...
- 10
- WOODY WETLANDS
- 11
- SHRUB DOMINATED WETLANDS
- 12
- MIXED HERBACEOUS WETLANDS
- 13
- TREE FARM/ORCHARD/PLANTATION
- 14
- FARM - LAND IN FARM BUILDINGS
- Definition Source
- LOBP
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Name
- metadata
- Format Name
- HTML metadata
- Format Name
- KML
- Format Name
- GeoJSON
- Format Name
- OGC:WMS
- Distributor
- Albert R. Mann Library
- Online Access
- https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/79/42/cugir-007942.zip
- Online Access
- https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/79/42/fgdc.xml
- Online Access
- https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/79/42/fgdc.html
- Online Access
- https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir007942outputFormat=application%2Fvnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml
- Online Access
- https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir007942outputFormat=application%2Fjson
- Online Access
- https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wms?version=1.1.0request=GetMaplayers=cugir007942bbox=-76.22438211,43.59838397,-75.64897489,43.99122103width=256height=174srs=EPSG:4326format=image/png
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20190524
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Albert R. Mann Library
- Contact Address
- Address
- Albert R. Mann Library
- City
- Ithaca
- State or Province
- New York
- Postal Code
- 14853
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 607-255-5406
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- mann-ref@cornell.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
