The ATBI in the Smokies is coordinated by our non-profit partner Discover Life in America, or DLIA. This extraordinary diversity of this park led to the park's designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Scientists have discovered nearly 10,000 species that were not previously known from the park, and many of these (~1000) had never been seen anywhere in the world before- they were new to science. The goal of an ATBI is to determine what species live in the park, their distribution, and their ecological community. In 1998, the Smokies began a park-wide biological inventory of all life forms this project is referred to as an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, or ATBI. Web Mapping - Park technology keeps up with the times! Most GIS data published by the park is also publicly available in popular on-line GIS platforms.Īll Taxa Biodiversity Inventory- Over 19,000 species have been documented in the park and scientists believe an additional 80,000-100,000 species may live here.See our GIS Open Data site for data in open source formats such as geoJSON. Open Data- All park data is made available under the guidelines of the Open Government Initiative.
For specific questions regarding the Smokies, contact the park GIS Specialist and please provide sufficient time to formulate a response in advance of your need.
GIS themes currently or eventually available include vegetation cover, bedrock geology, disturbance history, fire history, atmospheric deposition models, soils, and topographic indices. The same can be done for other NPS sites. You can access the Smokies data by selecting “Great Smoky Mountains National Park” from the NPS Unit dropdown. For example, data on Fisheries Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Surveys was recently posted. Downloadable Data - All publicly available GIS datasets are posted online at the NPS IRMA Portal.
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