IPIEDT: Invasive Plant Inventory and Early Detection Prioritization Tool, 2017

An Access Database tool for invasive plant prioritization uses user responses to calculate species and area scores. The workshop's resulting data tables are archived as CSV files to preserve results even if the master database changes. The Department of the Interior provides this tool and its outputs for download.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing invasive plant inventory efforts based on calculated species scores.
• Ranking areas for early detection based on calculated area scores.
• Archiving workshop prioritization results for reference against future database updates.

Strengths

• Tool outputs are archived as CSV files to preserve workshop results.
• The Department of the Interior is the authoritative organization.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2017 workshop.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Data generated from user responses in an Access Database tool during prioritization workshops.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 08:16:19.377971; freshness should be verified.