Spatial Eco-Informatics Facility - Data Products
Western Riverside County
- Map dataset of 78,021 points spaced at 250m on systematic grid, each with 255 environmental attributes including point and neighborhood derived values for land use, land cover, terrain, climate, and soil. Revised 2013. Format: file geodatabase.
- Habitat suitability analysis results for each of the Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) species. Revised as needed 2007 – 2015. Format: Excel.
- Habitat suitability maps for each of the Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) species. Show results of statistical analysis of species observations and environmental values above. Revised as needed 2007 – 2015. Format: raster graphic.
- Revised 2001 California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG)/Native Plant Society land cover feature class. Our new land cover identifies those areas converted to development before April 2005. Format: shapefile.
- April 2005 Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Imagery supervised classification results that identify areas that are urban or developed. Format: raster dataset.
- 1984 – 2005 West Riverside County fire history based on FRAP edited with Landsat data from the multi-agency, Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project.
- Fire regime statistics for 60-year period ending 2003 based on analysis of multi-agency MTBS and California Department of Forestry’s Fire Resources Assessment Program (FRAP) multi-agency fire history. Format: file geodatabase.
- Riparian bird map dataset of 135 [observation] points derived from 2005-version version of map dataset similar to that above. Prepared 2006.
- MSHCP Core II area land change trend analysis map series. Format: raster graphics.
- Shrub land cover change analysis based on interpretation of 1948 and 1962 aerial photos. Prepared 2006. Includes:
- Map series showing changes 1948 to present and 1962 to present. Format: raster graphics (jpg & tif).
- Map series showing changes from 1948 to present and from 1962 to present. Format: raster graphics (jpg & tif).
- 1931 Vegetation Type Maps (VTM) for west Riverside County based on original 1:62,500 field plots. Geo-referenced, attributed, and classified. Format: shapefile.
San Bernardino Mountains
- 2002 – 2006 MODIS Data Time Series. Format: tif.
- Leaf Area Index (8-day / 1 Km resolution).
- Enhanced Vegetation Index (16-day / 250m resolution).
- Land Surface Temperature (daily / 1 Km resolution).
- 2002 – 2006 summer surface deposition and stomatal uptake of reactive nitrogen (HNO3, HN3, NO, and NO2) with temporal resolution of two weeks and spatial resolution at vegetation patch scale. Format: file geodatabase.
Coachella Valley
- Map dataset of 489,916 points spaced at 180m on systematic grid, each with 122 environmental attributes including point and neighborhood derived values for climate, disturbance, fire history, land cover, terrain, and soil. Prepared 2013. Format: file shapefile.
- Coachella Valley MSHCP Valley Floor Vegetation Map based on spring 2013 6-inch resolution imagery and ground truth fieldwork. Follows the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program protocol. Prepared 2014. Format: file geodatabase.
- Mesquite distribution based on time-series of historic aerial photographs from 1938 through 2012. Prepared 2014. Format: file geodatabase.
- Mecca Hills and Orocopia Mountains Vegetation Map CVMSHCP 2013 based on spring National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) and world imagery (ESRI) sources imagery and ground truth fieldwork. Follows the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program protocol and National Vegetation Classification Standards. Prepared 2015. Format: file geodatabase.
- Dos Palmas Vegetation Map based on spring 2013 6-inch resolution imagery and ground truth fieldwork. Follows the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program protocol and National Vegetation Classification Standards. (In preparation). Format: file geodatabase.
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twenty-nine Palms (MCAGCC)
- Map dataset of 381,690 points systematically spaced at 150m within and surrounding existing and proposed extents of MCAGCC. Each point has 68 variables describing terrain, landcover, edaphic, climate, and geomorphic characteristics and disturbance features. Prepared 2012. Format: file geodatabase.
California Deserts
- Map dataset of 10,419 points representing individual fires in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts within California during the period from 1980 through 2008. Each point includes terrain, edaphic, disturbance, and landcover characteristics, fire size and ignition date, and the climate conditions prior to and at time of ignition. Prepared 2010. Format: personal geodatabase.
- Map dataset collections (n=3) totaling 2,535,633 points spaced at 180 – 250m on systematic grids across much of the Mojave and Colorado deserts and southwest California. Each point includes variables describing edaphic, terrain, disturbance, landcover, and climate characteristics of the environment. Prepared 2014. Format: varies, file geodatabase or shapefile.
California State-Wide
- Deposition nitrogen from anthropogenic sources that is available for uptake by plants.
- Monthly and annual, wet and dry, deposition of oxidized and reduced forms of nitrogen for calendar year 2002. Based on Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model output. Formats: ArcGRID, KML, and ASCII.
- Map series of 2002 wet and dry N species deposition. Format: raster graphic.
- Time series visualization of 2002 monthly total N deposition. Format: GIF raster graphic.
- Plant community and calendar year 2002 nitrogen critical load analysis results.
- Nitrogen deposition and plant communities’ format: feature class.
- Map of critical load areas’ format: raster graphic.
- Coastal Sage Scrub plant community
- Nitrogen critical load analysis results and map (file geodatabase)
- Protection status analysis results and map (raster graphics)
- Climate Data - Annual precipitation based on California’s “water year” (July – June) for period 1931 – 2000. Format: ArcGRID.
National Parks Lands
Joshua Tree National Park
- Map dataset of 169,916 points spaced at 200m on systematic grid, each with 35 environmental attributes including point and neighborhood derived values for climate, terrain, land cover, and soil. Prepared 2013. Format: file geodatabase.
Carrizo Plain National Monument
- Map dataset of 44,411 points spaced at 150m on systematic grid within the monument, each with 65 variables including: soils, landcover, terrain, climate, and disturbance characteristics. Prepared 2014. Format: shapefile
Lake Mead NRA
- Map dataset of 342,366 points spaced at 190m intervals on systematic grid within and around the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, each with 23 variables describing edaphic, terrain, climate, and geomorphology characteristics plus proximity to the built environment. Prepared 2011. Format: file geodatabase.
Santa Monica Mountains NRA
- 2011 – 2012 surface deposition and stomatal uptake of reactive nitrogen (HNO3, HN3, and NO2) with temporal resolution of one month and spatial resolution at vegetation patch scale. Format: file geodatabase.
Chihuahuan Desert Network
- Map dataset of 83,763 points spaced at 500m on systematic grid within and surrounding five National Park Service properties (Big Bend NP Amistad NRA, Guadalupe Mountains NP, Carlsbad Caverns NP, and White Sands NM). Each point has 90 environmental attributes including point and neighborhood derived values for climate, terrain, land cover, and soil. Prepared 2008. Format: shapefile.
- Combined Texas and New Mexico vegetative land cover classification. Format: feature class.
Great Basin
- Map dataset of 921,211 points spaced at 1,000m on systematic grid across a large portion of the Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Area, each with 115 values that provide measures of terrain, climate, land cover land use, biotic, and edaphic characteristics. Prepared 2011. Format: shapefile.
- Spatial analysis results used in constructing above map dataset. Format: file geodatabase.
Southwestern US Urban Centers
- 2011-version dataset collections for six urban study areas: Albuquerque NM, Austin TX, Las Vegas NV, Los Angeles CA, Lubbock TX, and Phoenix AZ. Each dataset provides information during the period from 2000 – 2010 on terrain, development, vegetation, landcover, climate, and 2000 decennial census tracts. Datasets vary in temporal and spatial resolution by source and data type. Format: file geodatabase.
Peninsular California (USA & Mexico)
- Map dataset of 172,570 points spaced at 1,000m on systematic grid across southern California in the United States and all of Baja California and Baja California Sur in Mexico. Each point has environmental attributes including point and neighborhood derived values for land use, land cover, terrain, climate, and soil. Prepared 2006. Format: shapefile.
- Habitat suitability map series of species selected for study. Show results of statistical analysis of species observations and environmental values listed directly above. Format: raster graphic.
- Peninsular ranges, cross-border vegetation cover derived from Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) and CalFire’s Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) source data and re-classified. Format: feature class.
- Palm tree species distribution map interpreted from Google Earth imagery. Prepared 2008. Format: feature class.