Value Mapping Model

Select the desired social value type from the dropdown list.

• Aesthetic: Scenery, sights, sounds, smells, etc.

• Biodiversity: Variety of fish, wildlife, plant life, etc.

• Cultural: Places to continue and pass down the wisdom and knowledge, traditions, and ancestral way of life.

• Economic: Provide timber, fisheries, minerals, and/or tourism opportunites such as outfitting and guiding.

• Future: Allow future generations to know and experience the area as it is now.

• Historic: Places and things of natural and human history that matter personally, to others, or the nation.

• Intrinsic: Value in and of itself, whether people are present or not.

• Learning: Opportunities to learn about the environment through scientific observation or experimentation.

• Life Sustaining: Produce, preserve, clean, and renew air, soil, and water.

• Recreation: Places for favorite outdoor recreation activities.

• Spiritual: Sacred, religious, or spiritually special place or inspiring feelings of reverence and respect for nature.

• Therapeutic: Improve physical and/or mental well-being.

Select the desired social value type from the dropdown list.

• Aesthetic: Scenery, sights, sounds, smells, etc.

• Biodiversity: Variety of fish, wildlife, plant life, etc.

• Cultural: Places to continue and pass down the wisdom and knowledge, traditions, and ancestral way of life.

• Economic: Provide timber, fisheries, minerals, and/or tourism opportunites such as outfitting and guiding.

• Future: Allow future generations to know and experience the area as it is now.

• Historic: Places and things of natural and human history that matter personally, to others, or the nation.

• Intrinsic: Value in and of itself, whether people are present or not.

• Learning: Opportunities to learn about the environment through scientific observation or experimentation.

• Life Sustaining: Produce, preserve, clean, and renew air, soil, and water.

• Recreation: Places for favorite outdoor recreation activities.

• Spiritual: Sacred, religious, or spiritually special place or inspiring feelings of reverence and respect for nature.

• Therapeutic: Improve physical and/or mental well-being.

A script that accepts the user-entered value type parameter and returns the appropriate weighted kernel density grid.

Writes the name of the user-selected value type parameter to the Eco_Soc_Values source file geodatabase for later use in labeling and naming output.

As part of the standardization process to generate the Value Index, the square root of the weighted kernel density grid is calculated in order to compress the range of values contained in the grid.

Normalizes the weighted kernel density grid by dividing it by the Maximum Grid generated by the Ecosystem Services Social Values Model.

Adds 0.5 to the normalized grid so values will be properly rounded when converted to integers in the Value Index.

Converts the normalized grid to the 10-point Value Index grid.

Calculates landscape metrics using the 10-point Value Index grid.

Multiplies the normalized grid by 10 to generate an alternate 100-point Value Index for use in calculating landscape metrics that will be used in statitstical analysis external from SolVES.

Adds 0.5 to the normalized grid so values will be properly rounded when converted to integers in the Value Index.

Converts the normalized grid to the 100-point Value Index grid.

Calculates landscape metrics using the 100-point Value Index grid.