Alaska Geobotany Center 20031210 vector digital data Suggested Citation: CAVM Team. 2003. Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map. Scale 1:7,500,000. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Map No. 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/cavm/ The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM) shows the types of vegetation that occur across the Arctic, between the ice-covered Arctic Ocean to the north and the northern limit of forests to the south. The CAVM team grouped over 400 described plant communities into 16 different physiognomic units based on plant growth forms. An international team of arctic vegetation scientists representing the six countries of the Arctic (Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and the United States) prepared the map. Detailed descriptions of the methods used to create the map can be found at: http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/cavm/ Vegetation classification for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Mapping project 1993 1995 ground condition Complete As needed -179.513315 178.425204 89.999989 44.430201 none vegetation physiogonomy tundra ISO 19115 Topic Category Biota ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover Environment none arctic circumpolar none Data provided by the Alaska Geobotany Center are copyright protected under the provisions of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/). Materials may be freely downloaded, reprinted and redistributed for non-commercial use. Reproduction and redistribution of the materials on this web site, including derivative works, shall give credit to the Alaska Geobotany Center and remain subject to the above license. Any web pages that use this material shall contain a link pointing to the Alaska Geobotany Center home page (http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/). Alaska Geobotany Center GIS & Remote Sensing Manager mailing and physical address

Alaska Geobotany Center

Institute of Arctic Biology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks AK 99775 US 907.474.1540 mailto:geobotany@uaf.edu http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/cavm/data/cavm_veg600.png 600x600 png (64 kb) PNG http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/cavm/data/cavm_veg1300.png 1300x1300 png (186 kb) PNG Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 The map was reviewed by the CAVM mapping team. Coverage topology was checked using the NODEERRORS and LABELERRORS commands. Islands and glaciers smaller than 49 square km were removed using the ELIMINATE command. Coverages were cleaned to a fuzzy tolerance of 300m. Coastlines were simplified using the GENERALIZE command (500m, bendsimplify option). Polygon boundaries were overlaid on the false-color infrared basemap and visually inspected. EROS Alaska Field Office 1993-1995 4230 University Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99508-4664, U.S.A http://www-eros-afo.wr.usgs.gov/ CD-ROM 1993 1995 ground condition AVHRR False-color infrared basemap, NDVI Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. Redlands, CA 1993 1000000 CD-ROM 1993 publication date DCW coastline and glacier masks USGS EROS Data Center Unknown http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.asp download 1997 publication date DEM Digital elevation model Calculated NDVI for 1993 and 1995 AVHRR summer scenes as: NDVI = (Band2 - Band1)/(Band2 + Band1) Obtained Maximum NDVI for each pixel in analysis area AVHRR Unknown CIR Metadata imported. G:\circumplr\cavm_public\veg_031210.xml Unknown Vector Complete chain 9660 Label point 3836 GT-polygon composed of chains 3835 Point 6 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area -180.000000 90.000000 0.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.016384 0.016384 meters D_Sphere_ARC_INFO Sphere_ARC_INFO 6370997.000000 infinity veg_031210.pat ArcInfo polygon attribute table none FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. AREA Area of feature in internal units squared. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. PERIMETER Perimeter of feature in internal units. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. VEG_031210# Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. VEG_031210-ID User-defined feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. PHYSIOG Physiogonomic unit code none 1 Cryptogam, herb barren Alaska Geobotany Center 2 Rush/grass, forb, cryptogam tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 3 Cryptogam barren complex (bedrock) Alaska Geobotany Center 4 Prostrate dwarf-shrub, herb tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 5 Graminoid, prostrate dwarf-shrub, forb tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 6 Prostrate/Hemiprostrate dwarf-shrub tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 7 Nontussock sedge, dwarf-shrub, moss tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 8 Tussock-sedge, dwarf-shrub, moss tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 9 Erect dwarf-shrub tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 10 Low-shrub tundra Alaska Geobotany Center 12 Sedge/grass, moss wetland Alaska Geobotany Center 13 Sedge, moss, dwarf-shrub wetland Alaska Geobotany Center 14 Sedge, moss, low-shrub wetland Alaska Geobotany Center 15 Noncarbonate mountain complex Alaska Geobotany Center 16 Carbonate mountain complex Alaska Geobotany Center 17 Nunatak complex Alaska Geobotany Center 18 Glaciers Alaska Geobotany Center 19 Water Alaska Geobotany Center 20 Lagoon Alaska Geobotany Center 21 Non-Arctic areas Alaska Geobotany Center Alaska Geobotany Center GIS & Remote Sensing Manager mailing and physical address

Institute of Arctic Biology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks AK 99775 us 907.474.1540 geobotany@uaf.edu Downloadable Data NONE. You're on your own. ARCE 8.0.3 3.507 http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/cavm/ free 20041012 Alaska Geobotany Center GIS & Remote Sensing Manager mailing and physical address

Institute of Arctic Biology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks AK 99775 US 907.474.1540 FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile