Data

Lichen Resurvey with Heavy Metal Analysis: Distribution of Cadmium concentration in lichen tissue in Maricopa county

Identifier: 124_1

Publication date: 2002

Author(s):
Corinna Gries; Toralf Zschau;

Abstract:

Distribution of Cadmium concentration in lichen tissue in Maricopa county




Temporal Coverage:

1998-01-01 - 1998-12-31

Geographic Coverage:

Geographic Description:Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Bounding Coordinates:
Longitude:-113.373857 to -111.041434
Latitude:34.053548 to 32.490767

Contact:

Information Manager, Global Institute of Sustainability, 
POB 875402,TEMPE
 caplter.data@asu.edu

Methods used in producing this dataset:


The database being used as data source

the raster was obtained by interpolating among the 28 locations using Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW). with the following settings: spatial resolution of 300 map units, nearest neighbor analysis, 20 points, power of 5, and no barriers.



Entities:


Raster: cadmium[download]

Description:

Horizontal Coordinate System:WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_12N
Rows & Columns:250 by 315matrix

Attribute:ppm_Cd
 Description:Codes for the PPM of cadmium
Domain:Enumeration:
1: 0 - 0.368578385
2: 0.368578385 - 0.399663309
3: 0.399663309 - 0.426307529
4: 0.426307529 - 0.444070343
5: 0.444070343 - 0.466273860
6: 0.466273860 - 0.475155267
7: 0.475155267 - 0.484036674
8: 0.484036674 - 0.506240191
9: 0.506240191 - 0.532884412
10: 0.532884412 - 1.136820078

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant nos. BCS-1026865, DEB-0423704 and DEB-9714833.