Title:

Digitized white-tailed deer densities for the continental United States

Author(s):

Hanberry, Brice B.; Hanberry, Phillip

Publication Year:

2019

How to Cite:

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Hanberry, Brice B.; Hanberry, Phillip. 2019. Digitized white-tailed deer densities for the continental United States. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0053

Abstract:

This data publication includes vector digital data files containing white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) densities during 1982, 1994-1999, and 2001-2005 in the continental United States. Using object-based image analysis followed by random forests classification, we rapidly digitized choropleth maps of white-tailed deer densities, allowing access to deer density information stored in images. This method rapidly reclaimed informational value of deer density maps and similarly may be applied to digitize a variety of published maps to geographic information system layers.

Keywords:

biota; boundaries; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Animal ecology; Wildlife (or Fauna); Mammals; eCognition; herbivory; historical geography; object-based image analysis; deer; Odocoileus virginianus; United States

Related publications:

• Hanberry, Brice B.; Hanberry, Phillip. 2020. Rapid digitization to reclaim thematic maps of white-tailed deer density from 1982 and 2003 in the conterminous US. PeerJ. 8: e8262. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8262 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/60202

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