2016 Omineca Sketchmapping Contract
Spatial Data information for Polygons
Date: August 10, 2016

Projected Coordinate System:	NAD_1983_BC_Environment_Albers

Sketchmap_Polygon Feature Class/shapefile:
1. NODE_NUM (text,10) Unique ID for each polygon location 
	-Standard is 2016-BLA-084 where:
		-2016 = year polygon collected
		-BLA = abbreviation of Beetle Management Unit. A list of codes to use will be provided.
		-084 = unique numeric value assigned to each polygon 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 polygon location was collected

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

6. SEVERITY (text,1) Severity code assigned to each polygon representing the percentage of attacked trees
	-0 = 0.1-10%
	-1 = 11-20%
	-2 = 21-30%
	-3 = 31-40%
	-4 = 41-50%
	-5 = 51-60%
	-6 = 60-70%
	-7 = 70-80%
	-8 = 81-90%
	-9 = 91-100% 

7. POLY_AREA (double) polygon area in hectares

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

9. NUM_TREES (double) Number of trees in polygon location.
	-Must be greater than 50 attacked trees within a continuous patch

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

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

12. 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

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

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

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

16. NORTHING (double) UTM Northing

17. EASTING (double) UTM Easting

18. LATITUDE (double) provided in decimal degrees

19. LONGITUDE (double) provided in decimal degrees