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Metadata for GNMMLRA

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Identification_Information
     Abstract 
     Purpose 
     Supplemental Information 
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
     Detailed Description
     Overview 
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Section


Identification_Information

Citation_Information 
    Originator: Dean Oman
    Publication_Date: 2002
    Title: Cartographer
    Publication_Information
        Publication_Place: Washington DC
        Publisher: USDA/NRCS/NHQ/RAD
    Other_Citation_Details: NRI Map Room Coverage
    Online_Linkage: ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NHQ/pub/land/arc_export/gnmmlra.e00.zip


Description  
    Abstract
    Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) boundaries for Guam and the Northern Marianas.
     
     
    Purpose
    This coverage is intended as a basemap for US national level natural resource
    analysis.
     
     
Supplemental_Information
    Procedures_Used
    This coverage contains the Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) boundaries for
    Guam and the Northern Marianas.  MLRA boundaries were revised in the mid-1990s from
    earlier versions established in the 1970s and 1980s by the U.S. Department of
    Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly the
    Soil Conservation Service (SCS).  The revised MLRA boundary coverage was
    digitized at the Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, the most recent
    version of which was completed in January of 1997.  Buffer polygons were added
    to the U.S. national boundaries and shoreline by NRCS National Cartography and
    Geospatial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for use with NRCS National Resources
    Inventory (NRI) digitized sample sites.  These buffered boundaries were later
    removed by the NRCS National Headquarters office, Resources Inventory and Assessment Division
    (RAD) in May 2000, and the national shoreline and outer boundaries were made
    to conform to standard boundaries established for NRI Map Room series
    maps (http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/).  Those standard U.S. national
    boundaries and shoreline are based on 1:2,000,000 scale 8-digit hydrologic
    unit coverage obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey, circa 1990, and were
    edited by the National Center for Resource Innovations (NCRI) in Washington,
    DC, and subsequently by NRCS/NHQ/RAD.
     
     
    Revisions
    The coverage was last updated in  2002.
     
     
    Reviews_Applied_to_Data
    This coverage has received no formal review.
     
     
    Related_Spatial_and_Tabular_Data_Sets
    This MLRA coverage is intended to have the same shoreline and outer boundaries
    as other coverages available in the NRCS NRI Map Room series (available
    online at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/), although their precise
    correspondance has not been thoroughly verified.  These coverages include
    counties, 8-digit hydrologic units, and Federal lands, derived from USGS
    coverages, circa 1990.
     
     
    References_Cited
    NRCS National Headquarters, Resources Inventory and Assessment Division (RAD).
    See USDA Agriculture Handbook 296 "Land Resource Regions and Major Resource
    Areas of the United States" for a look at an earlier version of the map and
    an explanation of MLRA and LRR designations.
     
     
    Notes
     
     
Time_Period_of_Content
    Currentness_Reference
    This coverage was last updated in  2002.
     
     
Status
    Progress:  
    Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency
    Not established.
     
     
Spatial_Domain
    Bounding_Coordinates
    West_Bounding_Coordinate: 144.53942688
    East_Bounding_Coordinate: 145.90395364
    North_Bounding_Coordinate: 15.28944114
    South_Bounding_Coordinate: 13.23203873


Keywords
    Theme
        Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Theme_Keyword:  
    Place
        Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Place_Keyword:  United States, Guam and the Northern Marianas
    Stratum
        Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Stratum_Keyword:
    Temporal
        Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Temporal_Keyword:


Access_Constraints
None.
 
Use_Constraints:
This coverage is designed for national, regional and state level analysis.  It
may or may not be appropriate for use at larger scales. This map does not meet National Map Accuracy Standards.  An improved version
of the currently established MLRA lines is in development.
 
 
Use_Constraints
 
 


Data_Set_Credit
Sharon Waltman (swaltman@nssc.nrcs.usda.gov), USDA/NRCS National Soil Survey Cen
boundary lines, excluding the U.S. national outline and lines immediately
attached to it, which were replaced by later edits.
 
Kevin Grantham, USDA/NRCS National Cartographic and Geospatial Center added
buffer polygons to the U.S. national boundaries.
 
Dean Oman (dean.oman@wdc.usda.gov), USDA/NRCS National Headquaters, Resources Inventory and Assessment Division, replaced the U.S. national shoreline and outer boundaries
(including buffer polygons added by Kevin Grantham) with boundaries
established for NRI Map Room series maps.
(http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/)
 
George Muehlbach, National Center for Resource Innovations (NCRI), Washington,
DC, made the initial shoreline and national boundary adjustments to the
1:2,000,000 scale coverages obtained from the United States Geological Survey,
which also serve as the shoreline and outer national boundaries for this MLRA
coverage.
 
 
 
Security_Information
    Security_Classification_System: None
    Security_Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
    Security_Handling_Description: None


Native_Data_Set_Environment: SunOS UNIX, ARC/INFO version 7.2.1


Cross_Reference
    Originator: Dean Oman
    Publication_Date: 2002
    Publication_Time: 
    Title: Major Land Resource Area Boundaries for Guam and the Northern Marianas
    Edition: 
    Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: 
    Series_Information
        Series_Name: 
        Issue_Identification: 
    Publication_Information
        Publication_Place: Washington
        Publisher: USDA/NRCS/NHQ/RAD
    Other_Citation_Details: Reviewed by USDA/NRCS/NSSC
    Online_Linkage: ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NHQ/pub/land/arc_export/gnmmlra.e00.zip
    Larger_Work_Citation: 


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Data_Quality_Information

Attribute_Accuracy
    Attribute_Accuracy_Report: See Entity_Attribute_Information


    Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment
        Attribute_Accuracy_Value:  See Explanation
        Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation:
           Attribute accuracy is described, where present, with each
           attribute defined in the Entity and Attribute Section.


Logical_Consistency_Report: Polygon topology present.


Completeness_Report
 
 
Positional_Accuracy 
    Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy
        Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
         
         


        Quantitative_Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment:
            Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Value: meters
            Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Explanation:  Resolution as reported


    Vertical_Positional_Accuracy
        Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
         
         
Lineage: See Supplemental_Information for overview.


Process_Steps
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN APPEND PBGNMCTY POLY FEATURES
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  19971103 
    Process_Time:  1227
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN BUILD PBGNMCTY POLY
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  19971103 
    Process_Time:  1228
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN RENAME PBGNMCTY GNMCTY
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  19971104 
    Process_Time:   848
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: RHUZIL EXPORT COVER /GIS/PART1/ARC/PERMANENT/CTY/GNMCTY GNMCTY.E00 NONE
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  19971217 
    Process_Time:  1631
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: EXTERNALALL
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  19980202 
    Process_Time:  1018
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN RENAME GNMCTY GNMFIPS
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  19980202 
    Process_Time:  1118
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN COPY ../FIPS/GNMFIPS GNMMLRA
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20000427 
    Process_Time:  1001
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN ARCEDIT /GIS/ARC/PERMANENT/MLRA/GNMMLRA
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20000427 
    Process_Time:  1131
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN BUILD GNMMLRA
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20000427 
    Process_Time:  1132
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN ARCEDIT /GIS/ARC/PERMANENT/MLRA/GNMMLRA
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20000622 
    Process_Time:  1648
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: DOMAN ARCEDIT /GIS/ARC/PERMANENT/MLRA/GNMMLRA
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20000622 
    Process_Time:  1651
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: KMUSSER   DOCUMENT GNMMLRA COPY   /GIS/ARC/PERMANENT/MLRA/US48MLRA KMUSSER
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20020108 
    Process_Time:  1324
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None
    Process_Step
    Process_Description: KMUSSER   DOCUMENT GNMMLRA UPDATE KMUSSER
    Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:None
    Process_Date:  20020108 
    Process_Time:  1328
    Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: None


Cloud_Cover

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector


Point_and_Vector_Object_Information
    SDTS_Terms_Description
        SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point
        Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 7
        SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String
        Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 117
        SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains'
        Point_and_Vector_Object_Count:  8



Spatial_Reference_Information

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition 
    Planar
        Map_Projection:
        Map_Projection_Name:  ALBERS
        Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: 155 + ( 0 / 60 ) + (   / 3600 )
        Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0
        Latitude_of_First_Standard_Parallel: 12
        Latitude_of_Second_Standard_Parallel: 15
        False_Easting:  0.00000
        False_Northing:  0.00000
    Geodetic Model
        Horizontal_Datum_Name:
        Ellipsoid_Name:  Clarke 1866
        Semi-major_Axis: 6,378,206.4
        Denominator_of_Flattening: 294.98



Entity_and_Attribute_Information

Detailed_Description 
    Entity_Type
    Entity_Type_Label: GNMMLRA.PAT
    Entity_Type_Definition: Major Land Resource Areas for the Conterminous 48 States
    Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USDA/NRCS/NHQ/RAD
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: -
        Attribute_Definition: Major Land Resource Areas for the Conterminous 48 States
        Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA/NRCS/NHQ/RAD
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: -
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: AREA
        Attribute_Definition: Area of poly/region in square coverage units
        Attribute_Definition_Source: Computed
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: Positive real numbers
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: PERIMETER
        Attribute_Definition: Perimeter of poly/region in coverage units
        Attribute_Definition_Source: Computed
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: Positive real numbers
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: GNMMLRA#
        Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number
        Attribute_Definition_Source: Computed
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: Sequential unique positive integer
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: GNMMLRA-ID
        Attribute_Definition: User-assigned feature number
        Attribute_Definition_Source: User-defined
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: Integer
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: MLRA
        Attribute_Definition: Major Land Resource Area code
        Attribute_Definition_Source: 
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: 
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: MLRANAME
        Attribute_Definition: Name of Major Land Resource Area
        Attribute_Definition_Source: 
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: 
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: MO
        Attribute_Definition: 
        Attribute_Definition_Source: 
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: 
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: LRR
        Attribute_Definition: Land Resource Region code
        Attribute_Definition_Source: 
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: 
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
    Attribute:
        Attribute_Label: LRRNAME
        Attribute_Definition: Land Resource Region name
        Attribute_Definition_Source: 
        Attribute_Domain_Values
            Enumerated_Domain
                Enumerated_Domain_Value: 
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition
                Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:


 Overview_Description 
    Entity_and_Attribute_Overview 
    GNMMLRA.PAT, polygon attribute table of GNMMLRA, using ARC/INFO software.
     
    AREA:         Area of poly/region in square coverage units.
    PERIMETER:    Perimeter of poly/region in coverage units.
    GNMMLRA#:    Internal feature number.
    GNMMLRA-ID:  User-assigned feature number.
    MLRA:         Major Land Resource Area designation code.
    MLRANAME:     Major Land Resource Area designation name.
    MO:
    LRR:          Land Resource Region designation code.
    LRRNAME:      Land Resource Region designation name.
     
     
    Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Not Available



Distribution_Information


Metadata_Reference_Section

Metadata_Date: 19020108
Metadata_Contact:
 
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version:  19940608
Metadata_Time_Convention:  Local Time
Metadata_Security_Information:
    Metadata_Security_Classification_System:  None
    Metadata_Security_Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
    Metadata_Security_Handling_Description:  None

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