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PAD-US 1.4 Data Release

Author: padus

Institution: USGS

August 4th, 2016

The USGS Gap Analysis Project (GAP) has announced the release of PAD-US 1.4 (PAD-US was officially published in May 2016, and announced in August 2016). The data set is available for download at the USGS GAP web site.

PAD-US 1.4 is a major update. The following are highlights of what’s new:

Full update/replacement of federal lands, developed with the FGDC Federal Lands Working Group (https://cms.geoplatform.gov/a16govunits/FederalLands)
Twenty PAD-US State Steward Network update submissions: AK, AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IN, KS, KY, MS, NE, NC, NV, OK, OR, SC, TX, UT, WA and WY, plus The Nature Conservancy (TNC) owned lands
Conservation easements from the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED), suitable for distribution in the public domain
Trust for Public Land (TPL) contribution of local gov areas in 13 states
National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) from the NOAA MPA Center
Conservation measures reviewed (“GAP Status Code”, “IUCN Category”)
Additional standardized “Designation Type” categories
New standardized “Manager Type” and “Manager Name” fields
Additional “Date of Establishment” for trends analyses (field in development, mostly for federal lands now)
“Public Access” codes reviewed by select PAD-US Stewards and federal partners (only partial coding at this point)
Technical revisions to increase database performance