cleandata: Description of National Park Service (NPS) data

Description Usage Format

Description

A dataset with imputed values for the original NPS data (received approximately 2016)

Usage

1

Format

a data frame

siteID

a unique alpha numeric identifier for the site. example GOGA001 is Golden Gates Bridge Park in California, site 1

Season

Fall, Spring, Winter, or Summer

region

All data was CONUS but more data should be added from Hawaii and Alaska

park

Location of site

type

Park or City

firstYear

Year recording began

nYears

Years spanning recording

nHours

Recorded hours

Latitude
Longitude
Elevation

Distance above sea level

Slope

Rate of change of elevation

Barren 200m

barren land

Cultivated 200m

cultivated

Developed 200m

developed land

Forest 200m

forest land cover

Deciduous 200m

deciduous forest land cover

Evergreen 200m

evergreen forest land cover

Mixed 200m

mixed forest land cover

Herbaceous 200m

herbaceous land cover

Shrubland 200m

shrubland land cover

Snow 200m

snow land cover

Wetlands 200m

wetlands land

WaterOnly 200m

water land cover

WaterNat 200m

landuse natural water

WaterHum 200m

landuse human modified water

Wet 200m

landuse wetlands

RecCon 200m

landuse recreation and conservation

Timber 200m

extractive land use timber harvesting

Grazing 200m

extractive land use livestock grazing

Pasture 200m

extractive land use pasture

Cropland 200m

extractive land use cropland

ExurbanHigh 200m

built land use exurban high

ExurbanLow 200m

built land use exurban low

Suburban 200m

built land use residential suburban

UrbanLow 200m

built land use residential urban

UrbanHigh 200m

built land use residential urban high

Commercial 200m

built land commercial

Industrial 200m

built land use industrial

Institutional 200m

land use institutional

Transportation 200m

land transportation

Extractive 200m

extractive land use class

Built 200m

built land use class

DistAirportsAllMotorized

Distance to motorized airports

DistAirportsSeaplane

Distance to all airports and seaplane bases only

DistCoast

Distance to National Hydrology Dataset (10 mile AOA) &

DistHeliports

Distance to heliports only

DistHighAirports

& Distance to airport with over 1M enplanements &

DistLowAirports

Distance to airports with greater than 5K enplanements &

DistMilitary

Distance to nearest military flight path (25 mile AOA) &

DistModerateAirports

Distance to all airports with greater than 250K enplanements

DistRailroads

Euclidean distance to National Atlas

DistRoadsAll

Distance to nearest road (all roads) m

DistRoadsMajor

Point Distance to nearest road (major roads)

DistStrahlerCalgt1

Distance to NHD Plus flowline with a SC stream order greater than 1

DistStrahlerCalgt3

Distance to NHD Plus flowline with a SC stream order greater than 3

DistStrahlerCalgt4

Distance to NHD Plus flowline with a SC stream order greater than 4

DistStreamsAny

Distance to closest stream

DistWaterbody

Distance to waterbody (10 mile AOA)

FlightFreq25Mile

Sum of weekly flight observations (25 mile AOA)

MilitarySum_25miles

Sum of designated military flight paths (25 mile AOA)

RddAll5km

Sum of road density all roads (5 mile AOA)

RddAllPt

Sum of road density all roads (5 km AOA)

RddMajor5km

Sum of road density all roads(5 km AOA)

RddMajorPt

Sum of road density major roads (5 km AOA)

RddWeighted5km

Sum of road density weighted roads (5 km AOA)

RddWeightedPt

Sum of road density weighted roads (5 km AOA)

PPTNorms

Average yearly precipitation

PPTSummer

Average summer precipitation

TAVGNorms

Average yearly temperature

TAVGSummer

Average summer yearly temperature

TDEWAvgSummer

Average summer dew point temperature

TDEWNorms

Average yearly dew point temperature

TPI

Ordinal bin of TPIRaw

TPIRaw

Topographic Position raw value.

Wilderness

Sum of designated wilderness

Wind_CRU

Wind power class potential density (50m AOA)

L90f1

The first one third octave band frequency on L90 band of thirty-three

L50f1

The first one third octave band frequency on L50 band of thirty-three

L10f1

The first one third octave band frequency on L10 band of thirty-three

LeqdBA

The equivalent noise level

Ldn

The day-night equivalent noise level

LeqdBAh1

The first hour equivalent dBA level

#'More data about the original values can be found looking at the NPS description of variables from the NPS Report "Explanatory Variable Generation for Geospatial Sound Modeling" available on the Natural Resource Publications Management website (http://www.nature.nps.gov/publications/nrpm/) search for ”Explanatory variable generation for geospatial soundscape modeling: Standard operating procedure. Natural Resource Report. Natural Resource Report NPS / NRSS / NRR - 2015 / 936” by Lisa Nelson, Michelle Kinseth, and Thomas Flowe.: http://www.nature.nps.gov/publications/nrpm/


RachelRamirez/NPS documentation built on May 23, 2019, 1:25 p.m.