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Western Forest Service Client Plans for Revised Codebook
Analyst’s Name:
Amelia Madsen
Date:
02/15/2023
Research Questions:
What are the current estimated numbers of the beetle population?
What would be an appropriate/realistic level for the beetle population?
Where are the highest numbers of beetles?
What methods have been the most effective for culling beetle species in other forests?
Client Questions:
The client has offered 4 questions that they would like answered that are important for
deciding what data is going to be important to study. The questions are as follows:
What specific locations or sites would be of highest priority to focus our efforts
on?
Do these locations share a similar soil type?
Are these locations or sites commonly found near a body of water?
What is the average distance from these sites to a roadway?
Revised Forest Cover Type Dataset Codebook
This dataset contains tree observations from four areas of the Roosevelt National Forest
in Colorado. All observations are cartographic variables (no remote sensing) from 30-meter by
30-meter sections of forest. There are over half a million measurements total.
Content:
This dataset includes information on tree type, shadow coverage, distance to nearby landmarks
(roads), soil type, and local topography.
The file contains cartographic variables of 581,012 measurements.
Column Description
s:
1. Elevation: Elevation in meters
2. Horizontal_Distance_To_Hydrology: Horizontal distance to nearest surface
water features
3. Vertical_Distance_To_Hydrology: Vertical distance to nearest surface water
features 4. Horizontal_Distance_To_Roadways: Horizontal distance to nearest
roadway
5. Horizontal_Distance_To_Fire_Points: Horizontal distance to nearest wildfire
ignition points
6. Wilderness_Area (see below key)
7. Soil_Type (see below key)
8. Cover_Type (see below key)
Keys:
Wilderness area designation. Integer value between 1 and 4 with the following key:
1. Rawah Wilderness Area
2. Neota Wilderness Area
3. Comanche Peak Wilderness Area
4. Cache la Poudre Wilderness
Soil Type designation. Integer value between 1 and 40 with the following key:
1. Cathedral family - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony
2. Vanet - Ratake families complex, very stony
3. Haploborolis - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly
4. Ratake family - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly
5. Vanet family - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly
6. Vanet - Wetmore families - Rock outcrop complex, stony
7. Gothic family
8. Supervisor - Limber families complex
9. Troutville family, very stony
10. Bullwark - Catamount families - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly
11. Bullwark - Catamount families - Rock land complex, rubbly. 12 Legault
family - Rock land complex, stony
12. Unknown
13. Catamount family - Rock land - Bullwark family complex, rubbly
14. Pachic Argiborolis - Aquolis complex
15. Unspecified in the USFS Soil and ELU Survey
16. Cryaquolis - Cryoborolis complex
17. Gateview family - Cryaquolis complex
18. Rogert family, very stony
19. Typic Cryaquolis - Borohemists complex
20. Typic Cryaquepts - Typic Cryaquolls complex
21. Typic Cryaquolls - Leighcan family, till substratum complex
22. Leighcan family, till substratum, extremely bouldery
23. Leighcan family, till substratum - Typic Cryaquolls complex Page 2 of 3 24.
Leighcan family, extremely stony
25. Leighcan family, warm, extremely stony
26. Granile - Catamount families complex, very stony
27. Leighcan family, warm - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony
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28. Leighcan family - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony
29. Como - Legault families complex, extremely stony
30. Como family - Rock land - Legault family complex, extremely stony
31. Leighcan - Catamount families complex, extremely stony
32. Catamount family - Rock outcrop - Leighcan family complex, extremely
stony
33. Leighcan - Catamount families - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony
34. Cryorthents - Rock land complex, extremely stony
35. Cryumbrepts - Rock outcrop - Cryaquepts complex
36. Bross family - Rock land - Cryumbrepts complex, extremely stony
37. Rock outcrop - Cryumbrepts - Cryorthents complex, extremely stony
38. Leighcan - Moran families - Cryaquolls complex, extremely stony
39. Moran family - Cryorthents - Leighcan family complex, extremely stony
40. Moran family - Cryorthents - Rock land complex, extremely stony
Forest Cover Type designation. Integer value between 1 and 7, with the following key:
1. Spruce/Fir
2. Lodgepole Pine
3. Ponderosa Pine
4. Cottonwood/Willow
5. Aspen
6. Douglas-fir
7. Krummholz
Reference Kaggle. November 3, 2016. Forest cover type dataset.
Retrieved from
https://www.kaggle.com/uciml/forest-cover-type-dataset
Changes:
Removed values that did not answer research or client questions:
o
Aspect
o
Slope
o
Hillshade
Changed soil type and wilderness area designation from dummy values with 0
meaning absence or 1 meaning presence. The purpose of this was to decrease the
number of columns from 55 to 8 and to match the format of forest cover type to
increase readability of data points