Carbon Assessment of Hawaii - Habitat Status

[Metadata] Carbon Assessment of Hawaii - Habitat Status. This layer depicts the status, or degree of disturbance, to plant communities on the main Hawaiian Islands. Several layers were used to to create this version (v 3.4). The CAH Land Cover Map was produced to serve as a base map for estimating current and future carbon stocks for the main Hawaiian Islands as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's national carbon assessment.

The original HabQual layer was developed by Jon Price and Jim Jacobi based on the mapped land cover units from the Hawaii GAP analysis program (Gon et al. 2006). This map was revised by combining data on land use and the “Bare” category from the NOAA C-CAP 2005 map (NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and adding road corridors to the heavily disturbed category based on the Tiger Roads layer (United States Census Bureau 2014). Additionally, corrections were made to this version of the map by visually inspecting previously mapped units and comparing them to recent high-resolution imagery including WorldView 2 multi-spectral imagery and to very-high resolution RGB imagery obtained from Pictometry Online (Pictometery International 2014). Changes were made to the map using the program GRID Editor developed by ARIS B.V. (2014) by Jim Jacobi. Latest edits made in September 2014. For more information, please see complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/cah_habitat_status_poly.html or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii, PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis/.