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PURPOSE
The Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program, was
envisioned as a shared scientific database to
facilitate data-driven land management
decisions throughout the Mojave Ecoregion.
The project goal is the development and
implementation of a database to support
collection, storage, transfer, and analysis of
resource data by all federal, state, regional
and local agencies with the responsibility of
natural resource management.
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OBJECTIVES

• Create a comprehensive program for long term
• conservation and use of an irreplaceable and
• priceless national treasure - the Mojave
  Desert
  
• Foster a coordinated, collaborative
  conservation
  
• effort among DOD, DOI, State, Local, and
• private entities
• Focus limited resources to eliminate
  duplication
  
• of effort among all participants

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Major Collaborators and Participants

• DOD
• China Lake Naval Weapons
• Station
• Edwards Air Force Base
• Marine Corps Air Ground
• Combat Center
• Marine Corps Logistics
• Base, Barstow
• National Training Center
• DOI
• Bureau of Land
• Management
• National Park Service
• US Fish and Wildlife
• Service
• US Geological Survey

• State
• California Department of
• Fish and Game
• California Department of
• Parks
• California State Historic
• Preservation Office
• Utah State Univ.
• Louisiana State Univ.
• San Diego State Univ.

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PRODUCTS
CD-ROM PACKAGE
This will consist of 8 CD-ROMS packaged in a
tri-fold envelope with USGS published hard
copy maps of the ecoregion and a users guide
WWW INTERFACE
Web access will allow users to access up-to-date
information of the Mojave Desert. The server
will be maintained at the National Training
Center at Ft. Irwin, CA.
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PROGRAM PHASES
PHASE I
Establish the necessary networks of hardware
and software
PHASE II
Develop a spatially referenced bibliography
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SPATIALLY REFERENCED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Web Based
• 18,350 Citations

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PROGRAM PHASES (Cont.)
PHASE III
Data prioritization of geographic layers
Topography, Vegetation, Geology,
Surface Variance, Cultural/Historical,
Hydrology, Remotely Sensed Imagery
PHASE IV
Data acquisition of geographic data and the
compilation of these databases into a seamless,
roam-around view of the Mojave Desert
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CURRENT DATABASES

• CARTOGRAPHIC
• Boundaries
• Transportation
• Roads, Railroads, Airports, etc.
• Ownership
• Feature Names

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Digital Elevation Data
1250,000 - 3-arc Second DTED
Elevation
Slope
Aspect
Shaded Relief
124,000 - 30m Topographic Framework
Elevation
Slope
Aspect
Shaded Relief
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CULTURAL/HISTORICAL
NATIONAL REGISTRY DATA
OVER 300 HISTORIC SITES PROVIDED
BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE THROUGH THE CALIFOR
NIA SHPO
CONVERSION OF THIS DATA IS UNDERWAY
WITH OTHER INFORMATION BEING
COMPILED BY CA-SHPO
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• LAND OWNERSHIP MOSAIC OF
• CALIFORNIA
• ARIZONA
• NEVADA
• UTAH

LAND OWNERSHIP BASE GENERATED FROM
BLM 1100,000 BASE MAPS WITH EDITS FROM
OTHER SOURCES
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VEGETATION
THE AVAILABLE VEGETATION MAP CONSISTS
OF A MOSAIC OF BRD GAP ANALYSIS DATA
THAT HAS BEEN ORGANIZED USING THE
EXISTING BAILEY ECOREGION BOUNDARY.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF APPENDING THE
50km BOUNDARY
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ECOSYSTEM GEOLOGY
USGS GENERATED LAYERS INCLUDING

• BEDROCK GEOLOGY - BAILEY BND
• ONLY
• SOILS - STATSGO
• HYDROLOGY - USGS 1100k DLGS
• CLIMATE - USU CLIMATE CENTER
• MINES AND PROSPECTS - BAILEY BND
• ONLY
• EARTHQUAKE DATA - INTERNET LINKS

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REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY

• LANDSAT TM-MRLC - 1992
• 15 IMAGES RADIOMETRICALLY CORRECTED
• AND COMPOSITED INTO A MOSAIC AT 30m
• RESOLUTION. THESE DATA HAVE BEEN
• CONVERTED TO APPARENT REFLECTANCE
• TO ALLOW COMPARISON WITH OTHER
• IMAGERY

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REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY..

• LANDSAT MSS-NALC TRIPLICATES
• 15 IMAGES FOR EACH OF 3 TIME PERIODS
• (1972, 1986, and 1992)
  RADIOMETRICALLY
  
• CORRECTED AND COMPOSITED INTO A
• MOSAIC AT 60m RESOLUTION. THESE DATA
  
  
• HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO APPARENT
• REFLECTANCE TO ALLOW COMPARISON
• WITH OTHER IMAGERY

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REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY..

• NOAA-AVHRR 10-DAY COMPOSITES
• PROVIDED BY THE USGS, THESE DATA
• CONSIST OF 6 YEARS OF 10-DAY CLOUD
• FREE COMPOSITE IMAGES AND ARE
• AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE

• NDVI
• Frost Free Season
• Greeness Length
• Greeness Onset
• Greeness Peak
• Land Cover

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Climate
30 Year Normals
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CD-ROM FINAL PRODUCT
A TOTAL OF 8 CD-ROMS PACKAGED IN A
CARDSTOCK FOLDER WILL BE NECESSARY TO
DELIVER DATA TO USERS. THE MAJORITY OF THE CD-R
OMS WILL CONSIST PRIMARILY OF PROCESSED GRID D
ATA SUCH AS THE TOPO FRAMEWORK AND
REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES. ALL CD-ROMs WILL HAVE
A NODE-LOCKED VERSION OF ARCVIEWTM 2.1 RAW DA
TA WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM MDEP
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CONTAINS A REDUCED VERSION OF MDEP DATASET AND AC
TS AS AN INTRODUCTORY CD-ROM ADDITIONAL COPIES
WILL BE MADE OF THIS CD-ROM FOR PROMOTIONAL PU
RPOSES
FULL RESOLUTION VECTOR COVERAGES, SPATIAL BIBLIOG
.,
AND CULTURAL RESOURCES
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TOPOGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK. FULL RESOLUTION MOSAIC G
RIDS COMPRESSED WITH LOWER RESOLUTION ROAM-AROUN
D IMAGES AVAILABLE
LANDSAT MSS-NALC MOSAICS FULL RESOLUTION MOSAIC
GRIDS COMPRESSED WITH LOWER RESOLUTION ROAM-ARO
UND IMAGES AVAILABLE
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LANDSAT TM-MRLC MOSAIC COMPRESSED FULL RESOLUTI
ON BIL IMAGES AVAILABLE WITH LOWER RESOLUTION RO
AM-AROUND FILE
AVAILABLE
LANDSAT TM-MRLC MOSAIC...
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CLIMATE DATA 30 YEAR GRIDS DESCRIBING PRECIP.
AND TEMPERATURE FOR A WITHIN-YEAR INTERVAL (E.
G. MONTHLY AVERAGES, HIGH, LOW). DATA COMPRES
SION REQUIREMENTS WILL DEPEND ON FINAL DB SIZE
AVHRR 10-DAY COMPOSITES A COMBINATION OF COMPRE
SSED AND NON-COMPRESSED DATA WITH TOOLS TO QUERY
VEGETATION INDICES
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FY 96 Projects

• Vegetation - Create a digital relational
• vegetation database
• Land Surface - Develop a geospatial data-
• base of geomorphic landforms
• Cultural Resources - Establish a Mojave
• Desert Historical Resources GIS and
• electronic database

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