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The vegetation belts
classification of Chile, developed between the years 2003 and 2006,
yielded a textbook (Luebert & Pliscoff 2006) and a digital version of
the results. The classificaction has been used in research as well as in
territorial planning. This project has three goals: generating a
geo-referenced database of vegetation records, clearing up the
cartography of vegetation belts currently existing in Chile and
standardizing this classification to the IABIN metadata and the
Ecological Systems classification of NatureServe.
In order to generate a
database the vegetation records of ca. 1024 references will be revised
and digitalized. The clearing up of the current cartography will be
performed by means of the correction of the altitudinal limits of the
vegetation belts using a 90 m resolution DEM and the actualization of
the administrative boundaries of the country according to the new
official cartography of Chile. To standardize the cartography of
vegetation belts, the current database associated to the cartography
will be adapted to the IABIN standards and the equivalences with the
NatureServe Ecological Systems will be incorporated. |
