2016 Omineca Sketchmapping Contract
Spatial Data information for Spot/POint locations
Date: August 10, 2016

Projected Coordinate System:	NAD_1983_BC_Environment_Albers

Sketchmap_Point Feature Class/shapefile:
1. NODE_NUM (text,10) Unique ID for each spot location 
	-Standard is 2016-BLA-084 where:
		-2016 = year spot location collected
		-BLA = abbreviation of Beetle Management Unit. A list of codes to use will be provided.
		-084 = unique numeric value assigned to each spot location, each BMU starts at 001. Each district will instruct if starting with 0001 or a different number such as Mackenzie. See the BMU_List_Sketchmap.shp for the start numbers.

2. REGION (text,3) Forest Region
	-Default is RNI for the Omineca Region
	-Default is RNO for the Northeast Region

3. DISTRICT (text,3) Natural Resource District
	-DMK for the Mackenzie NRD
	-DPC for the Peace NRD
	-DPG for the Prince George NRD
	-DJA for the Stuart-Nechako NRD

4. YEAR	(double) Year the spot location was collected

5. FHF (text, 3) Forest Health Factor, use standard codes

6. SPOT (text,1) Yes or No (Use Y or N) to identify if it is a spot location or not

7. NUM_TREES (double) Number of trees in spot location.
	-Must be less than 50 attacked trees within an area less than 3 ha and greater than 200 meters from another infestation.

8. SPOT_AREA (double) Assigned area dependent on the number of trees attacked
	-for 1-30 trees use 0.25 ha
	-for 31-50 trees use 0.5 ha

9.TREE_SP1 (text,3) species of tree(s) in spot location, use standard codes

10. COMMENTS (text,50) field for entering comments.

11. BMU (text,35) Beetle Management Unit, a list of all BMU's will be made available for each district, See the BMU_List_Sketchmap.shp

12. BMU_ABBR (text,4) Abbreviation of each BMU - abbreviations will be provided in the list of BMU's, See the BMU_List_Sketchmap.shp

13. CONTRACT (text,10) Contract number assigned to each district

14. AMENDMENT (text,2) Amendment number for contract, if applicable

15. NORTHING (double) UTM Northing

16. EASTING (double) UTM Easting

17. LATITUDE (double) provided in decimal degrees

18. LONGITUDE (double) provided in decimal degrees