7033b009-9b49-4a35-bb54-718a37def32e Sediqa Khatieb SANBI The Metadata Manager +27 21 799 8738 Kirstenbosch Research Centre Cape Town Claremont 7735 South Africa bgishelp@sanbi.org.za 2017-06-29T12:14:18 SANS 1878 FGDC-STD-001-1998 WGS 1984 Archived FSP: Integrated Vegetation Mossel Bay 2007 2007 1.0 This layer represents is an integration of the fine-scale vegetation map of the Saldanha Peninsula, North West Sandveld, Bokkeveld and Upper Breede River Valley mapping domain in the Western Cape; fine-scale mapped wetland vegetation types for Saldanha and Sandveld; the South African Vegetation map (NSBA 2004 updated to 2006 where name and spatial changes were found), Nieuwoudtville Conservation Farming Project Vegetation Map and extracts from Barry Low’s Dune Ecosystem Layer. Fine-scale vegetation categories were based on the South African vegetation types of Mucina & Rutherford (2006), but it was necessary to describe a several new, previously unrecognised vegetation types in the FineScale Planning Domains. Certain vegetation boundaries were substantially redrawn from those presented in Mucina & Rutherford (2006) The major objective of this fine-scale vegetation study was to produce a defensible vegetation classification system and vegetation map suitable for analysis for the defined planning domain. The integrated vegetation map is used within the conservation planning processes as biodiversity surrogate for which targets are set. Kerry Te Roller or Sediqa Khatieb CapeNature Kerry Te Roller or Sediqa Khatieb 021 799 8731/8738 Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Rhodes Avenue, Newlands Cape Town 7735 South Africa teroller@sanbi.org or khatieb@sanbi.org vegetation Western Cape Mosselbay South Africa Western Cape 50000 environment 2016-01-01 21.632968749999996 22.356328125 -34.34380831799959 -33.84657933674058 SANBI bgishelp@sanbi.org.za ZIP 1 http://bgismaps.sanbi.org/server/rest/services/BGIS_Projects WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link A list of services published are available at this URL. BGIS Map Services http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/293 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL. BGIS Spatial Datasets The vegetation was mapped by Nick Helme Botanical Surveys in the field on SPOT 5 space maps georeferenced to Landsat 7 Pan band and printed by GeoTerraImage. These maps were printed at a variable scale smaller than 1:50 000. The hardcopy maps were digitised from a tablet in ArcView. Some mapping was done by the Nick Helme on-screen with the SPOT 5 image backdrop (pan-merged at 2.5 m resolution). Additional polygons from Barry Low's Dune Ecosystems Layer (mobile duneveld) and the Nieuwoudtville Conservation Farming Project (renosterveld vegetation types) were added where appropriate. Wetland vegetation types were broadly identified by Nick Helme and then refined and added to by the Fresh Water Consulting Group. The edges of the fine-scale map were matched against the SA Vegetation map, but in many cases the boundaries do not align. Reference for Dataset: Integrated Vegetation Map for the Saldanha Peninsula, North West Sandveld, Bokkeveld and Upper Breede River Planning Domains (Helme, N. A. and Freshwater consulting Group, 2007), Fine-Scale Biodiversity Planning Project 2007, CapeNature