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Biotic Communities, Arizona, 1993
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Biotic Communities, Arizona, 1993
- Originator
- Arizona. State Land Department
- Publisher
- Arizona State Land Department
- Publication Date
- 1993-01-01T:00:00:00
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Abstract
- This dataset adapted from the map provided "Biotic Communities of the Southwest", August 1980 by David E. Brown and Charles H. Lowe. The datasest show the distribution general biotic communities across Arizona (i.e. Great Basin Desertscrub, Interior Chaparral, etc.). http://www.canotia.org/volumes/CANOTIA_2007_Vol3_1_Brown_et_al.pdf
- Purpose
- The data are created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems for a variety of planning and analysis purposes. Use of data for Engineering work is prohibited. This datasets is made available to interested persons through the University of Arizona's instance of Open Geoportal. It has been provided to assist educators, students, researchers, and policy makers in mapping and/or analysis applications.
- Temporal Extent
- Time Period
- Begin
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00
- End
- 1993-12-31T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -115.027254
- East
- -108.914335
- North
- 37.039196
- South
- 31.277137
- ISO Topic Category
- biota
- environment
- Theme Keyword
- vegetation
-
biotic classes
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- Place Keyword
-
Arizona
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Place Keyword
-
State of Arizona
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GNIS
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- notPlanned
- Language
- eng
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Arizona State Land Department, Arizona Land Resources Information System
- Position Name
- GIS Data Transfer Specialist
- Delivery Point
- 1616 West Adams
- City
- Phoenix
- Administrative Area
- Arizona
- Postal Code
- 85007
- Country
- US
- gisdata@lnd.state.az.us
- Phone
- (602) 542-4709
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- NAD83 / UTM zone 12N (EPSG:26912)
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 7.9
Data Quality Information
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Report
- Absolute External Positional Accuracy
- Absolute External Positional Accuracy
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Digitized paper map to create data.
- Process Date
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00
- Process Step
- Description
- Dataset renamed from Natveg.shp to Arizona_BioticCommunities_1993.shp by Ben Hickson with the University of Arizona Library. Metadata fields corresponding the Open Geoportal Working Group Best Practices Guide (http://opengeoportal.org/working-groups/metadata/) were also updated.
- Process Date
- Source
- Title
- Biotic Communities of the Southwest
- Publication Date
- 1993-01-01
- Originator
- Arizona Game and Fish Department, Habitat Branch
- Publisher
- Arizona Game and Fish Department
- Description
- The data was digitized from the map "Biotic Communities of the Southwest", August 1980 by David E. Brown and Charles H. Lowe.
Distribution Information
- Distributor
- University of Arizona Library
- Online Access
- Protocol
- Name
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- Vector Object Type
- complex
- Vector Object Count
- 424
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- Metadata File Identifier
- Dataset URI
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/azu_geo_arizona_bioticcommunities_1993
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2017-08-16T16:30:35
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007