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EPA Region 6 REAP Sustainability Geodatabase

Metadata Updated: March 22, 2024

The Regional Ecological Assessment Protocol (REAP) is a screening level assessment tool created as a way to identify priority ecological resources within the five EPA Region 6 states (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). The REAP divides eighteen individual measures into three main sub-layers: diversity, rarity, and sustainability. This geodatabase contains the 2 grids (sustain and sustainrank) representing the sustainability layer which describes the state of the environment in terms of stability (sustainble areas are those that can maintain themselves into the future without human management). There are eleven measures that make up the sustainability layer: contiguous land cover, regularity of ecosystem boundary, appropriateness of land cover, waterway obstruction, road density, airport noise, Superfund sites, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) sites, water quality, air quality, and urban/agriculture disturbance. Each cell in the final sustain grid has a score of between 1 and 100 based on the average of the eleven measures. Cells with higher scores represent areas that are more sustainable. Cells with lower scores represent areas that are the least sustainable. In the sustainrank grid, the cells are placed into the following 5 groups based on the score: 1 (top 1% of scores), 10 (top 10% of scores), 25 (top 25% of scores), 50 (top 50% of scores), and 100 (all the rest of the scores). See the metadata for each individual layer for more detailed information.

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Dates

Metadata Date February 21, 2018
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2024
Reference Date(s) June 28, 2011 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date February 21, 2018
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2024
Reference Date(s) June 28, 2011 (publication)
Responsible Party US EPA, Region 6 (Resource Provider, Publisher)
Contact Email
Guid 9686F0DC-570F-4455-B6B0-D2F393BB6159
Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Bbox East Long -89
Bbox North Lat 37
Bbox South Lat 25
Bbox West Long -109
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id cbcc851f-ec65-4271-a9ae-0db8aa63b3e4
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.
Lineage
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-109.0, 25.0], [-89.0, 25.0], [-89.0, 37.0], [-109.0, 37.0], [-109.0, 25.0]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System 4269
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2005-03-01T00:00:00
Temporal Extent End 2011-06-28T00:00:00

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