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PAD-US information in USFS Recreation and Protected Land Resources Report
This report provides an overview of the public and private land and water resources of the United States. Described is use of natural and developed land as recreation resources with an emphasis... Learn more >>
FY12 State Data Steward Project Awards Grants
GAP awarded FY12 State Data Steward Project grants to nine states (NV, AZ, KS, OK, TX, IN, AL, NJ, AK) to improve data sharing capacity in the state, build data inventories, and... Learn more >>
New PAD-US Data Release – version 1.3, November 2012
USGS GAP has published a new version of PAD-US. Version 1.3 was completed in November 2012 and is now available for download. New features are described on the Data/History page. Get your... Learn more >>
GAP Data featured in ‘App-lifying USGS Earth Science Data’ on Challenge.gov
The USGS is challenging the Nation’s developers to use Federal earth science data in new ways. We are seeking new visualizations and applications for datasets that could address some of today’s perplexing... Learn more >>
GAP Map appears in ESRI “Mapping the Nation” publication
US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC) provide a national framework for making decisions at landscape scales. Using the LCC framework and GIS, GAP measured and analyzed the redundancy of... Learn more >>
GAP Landcover Viewer Updated
GAP updated national land cover data set (version 2) has been updated and crosswalked to the five highest levels of the National Vegetation Classification System. This land cover data provides detailed information on... Learn more >>
Species Viewer Receives Award
GAP’s recently launched Species Viewer placed third in the category of Web-based GIS Applications at ESRI’s User Software Applications Fair in July, 2011. The viewer currently has more than 800 vertebrate species... Learn more >>
GAP data used to assess protection levels of Southern Forests
Southern Forests for the Future works to raise awareness about the status and importance of the United States. The organization used GAP data to analyze Southern Forests and portray information about them... Learn more >>
NPScape helps National Parks understand their conservation context using PAD-US
NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that produces and delivers to US National Parks a suite of landscape-scale datasets, maps, reports, and other products to inform natural resource management and planning... Learn more >>
GAP map included in “Mapping the Nation”
Mapping the Nation: GIS for Federal Progress and Accountability showcases many ways that federal government agencies rely on GIS analysis and maps. This map book makes transparent the results of agencies’ complex... Learn more >>
