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Location polygons support Forest Service data management and analysis. Data maintenance using the FSVeg Spatial application is conducted by extracting one or more locations from the SDE server to a file geodatabase. Once they complete the data updates to that area, they then post or "check-in" the completed work to SDE. Since a location is a collection of vegetation polygons where no gaps or overlaps are allowed between those vegetation polygons; the editing by location concept allows the FSVeg Spatial application to enforce these topology rules. The user may be adjusting vegetation polygon boundaries, splitting polygons, etc., within the checked-out location. For analysis, it is common to work on landscapes where the user selects the desired vegetation polygons by more easily selecting a set of locations that contain those polygons. The concept of a location, whether referring to watershed boundaries or compartments, has been in use within the U.S. Forest Service for several decades.
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Spatial features stewarded within the FSVeg Spatial application are organized in a hierarchy. Vegetation polygons and sample points represent the base level spatial features. Sample points fall within their parent vegetation polygon. Vegetation polygons are organized into locations. Locations fall within a ranger district and ranger districts fall within a proclaimed forest. There may be one or more proclaimed forests within the administrative forest. Finally, a region oversees the administrative forests within their geographic area. Location polygons are derived by dissolving the vegetation polygons within the NRIS_VegPoly feature class where the location identifiers are the same. A location thus represents an organized collection of vegetation polygons. National Forests will either define locations based on watershed boundaries or for management convenience based on roads or other natural features. Locations based on roads and/or other features are typically referred to as compartments.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Wood
Vegetation
Inventory
Tree
Land cover
All Forest Service lands
Stand
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The USDA Forest Service makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the content; and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents or hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the USDA Forest Service.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Simple
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AlleghenyNationalForest_Compartments202601
Feature Class
0
OBJECTID
OBJECTID
OID
4
0
0
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
SPATIAL_ID
SPATIAL_ID
String
40
0
0
System generated, globally unique user ID (GUID) to uniquely identify a row of data in this table.
nrm
LOCATION
LOCATION
String
16
0
0
The location of the polygon within a Region, Forest, and District.
nrm
GLOBALID
GLOBALID
String
38
0
0
SHAPE
Shape
Geometry
0
0
0
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
Stores the physical polygon coordinate data.
nrm
GIS_ACRES
GIS_ACRES
Double
8
0
0
The area of the feature in acres, calculated in North American Albers Equal Area Conic projection (NAD83) meters and then converted to acres with the formula AreaMeters / 4046.856.
US Forest Service
Shape_Leng
Shape_Leng
Double
8
0
0
Shape_Length
Shape_Length
Double
8
0
0
Length of feature in internal units.
Esri
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape_Area
Shape_Area
Double
8
0
0
Area of feature in internal units squared.
Esri
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
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