Sudden Oak Death Data

Available Data (in ESRI .shp format)

• Sudden Oak Death confirmations
    » File name: SODconfirm_05-12-08alb.shp
    » All confirmed isolations of P. ramorum as of 06/05/08, officially confirmed by the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) or UC Davis/UC Berkeley researchers.

• 1/4 mile buffer ("zone of infestation")
    » File name: SODbuffer_06-05-08alb.shp
    » 1/4-mile buffer around all confirmed isolations of P. ramorum as of 06/05/08.

Data is available to CDFA, County Ag. Comm. Offices, and others doing SOD-related work and research. Please e-mail OakMapper@nature.berkeley.edu to request data.

Field Information

• Sudden Oak Death confirmations

Field Name Description Type
SHAPE Polygon shapefile field Point
ISOL Isolation confirmation ID String
COUNTY County String
LOCATION Nearest location or city String
HOST Host species code String
PLANT_SPEC Host species name String
PLANT_COMM Host common name String
NORTHING Northing, UTM10 NAD83 (from GPS) Number
EASTING Easting, UTM10 NAD83 (from GPS) Number
OFFSET_M Offset/error, in meters String
SAMPLER Sampler (CDFA, UCD,UCB) String
DATE_COLL Date sample was collected Date
DATE_CONF Date of lab confirmation Date
ZIP_CODE Zip code of confirmation Number
CONGRESSIO Congressional district of conf. Number
QUAD100K 1:100,000 topo quad name of conf. String
QUAD24K 1:24,000 topo quad name of conf. String

• 1/4 mile buffer ("zones of infestation")

Field Name Description Type
SHAPE Polygon shapefile field Polygon
BUFF_ID Buffer ID Number
BUFF_DIST Buffer distance (0.25 mile) Number

Projection Information

Sudden Oak Death confirmation data is imported using GPS coordinates (in UTM zone 10, NAD 1983), then reprojected to California's Teale-Albers projection.

• For more information about California's Teale-Albers projection, see the California Spatial Information Library's projection page.
• For more information about projections and re-projecting, see SOD monitoring's projection page.

Parameter Value
1st Standard Parallel 34  00  00
2nd Standard Parallel 40  30  00
Central Meridian -120  00  00
Latitude of origin 00  00  00
False easting (meters) 0
False northing (meters) -4000000
Datum NAD 1927
Spheroid Clarke 1866

 

     

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