Miscellaneous
Coming Together for an All-Lands Dataset to Support Wildfire and Wildlife Conservation Planning
The National Gap Analysis (GAP) and Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) Programs are teaming up to deliver detailed land cover maps that support wildland fire and species conservation planning for the... Learn more >>
GAP offers partnership funding to USGS scientists interested in analysis of threats to biodiversity. Due date extended to close of business June 21, 2013.
Seeking USGS partnership projects for FY 2013 to work with data developed by Core Science Analytics and Synthesis, Gap Analysis Program. Due date extended to COB June 21, 2013. The USGS Gap... 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 >>
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 >>
Conduct the ANALYSIS
The analysis step is the point at which we determine how much of a vertebrate species’ or a land cover’s distribution occurs in areas managed for the long-term maintenance of biodiversity. To... Learn more >>
Mapping and modeling SPECIES ranges and distributions
Knowing where species occur is vital to biodiversity protection, climate change research, and conservation planning. Because we are unable to know all the places in which a species occurs, we use computer... Learn more >>
Mapping the LAND COVER of the dominant ecological systems
The first step of gap analysis is to create a land cover map that depicts the ecological systems in the area being studied. Ecological systems are defined as “groups of plant community... Learn more >>
Ancillary Data
Regions used for species modeling The lower 48 states of the U.S. were divided into six regions for modeling purposes. Each of the ancillary data layers are split into these six regions... 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 >>
Department of Interior Strategic Plan
GAP’s Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) was featured in the Department of Interior’s Strategic Plan for 2011-2016. GAP maps and data play a role in helping the Department of Interior... Learn more >>
