GIS Shapefile - Long Term Sampling Grid, 100 Meters, Baltimore MSA - BES Main Study Area

Long term sampling framework for the Baltimore MSA comprised of contiguous 100 meter grid cells. Used for: telephone survey, field observation survey (observational and photo data), and key informant photo-documentation (text / narrative and photo data). A unique ID, 'GridCell', is used to establish the relationship between this layer and the field data. This is part of a collection of Baltimore Ecosystem Study metadata records that point to a geodatabase. The geodatabase itself is available online at beslter.org or lternet.edu. It is considerably large. Upon request, it can be shipped to you on media, such as a flash drive. The geodatabase is roughly 51.4 Gb in size, consisting of 4,914 files in 160 folders. Although this metadata record and the others like it are not rich with attributes, it is nonetheless made available because the data that it represents could be indeed useful.