Florida Tidal Flats

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), and Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD)
Publication_Date: 1990
Title: Florida Tidal Flats
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Description:
Abstract: This GIS data set represents statewide tidal flats
Purpose: To visually represent tidal flats in the state of Florida.
Supplemental_Information:
Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date:
REQUIRED: The year (and optionally month, or month and day) for which the data set corresponds to the ground.
Time_of_Day: unknown
Currentness_Reference: Source date: 1970s, 1980s, 1990
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.646747
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.876458
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.015904
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.480622
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRItheme
Theme_Keyword: GIS
Theme_Keyword: land use/land cover
Theme_Keyword: wetlands
Theme_Keyword: coastal
Theme_Keyword: mapping
Theme_Keyword: habitat (rivers, estuaries, ecology, hard bottom)
Theme_Keyword: benthic
Theme_Keyword: marine vegetation (mangroves, seagrasses, seaweeds, sea oats)
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRIplace
Place_Keyword: Florida
Place_Keyword: statewide
Place_Keyword: Florida Keys
Place_Keyword: south Florida
Place_Keyword: southwest Florida
Place_Keyword: northeast Florida
Place_Keyword: northwest Florida
Place_Keyword: east coast of Florida
Place_Keyword: West Palm
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Florida Counties
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Florida Waterbodies
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico
Place_Keyword: Florida Bay
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWC Region
Place_Keyword: FWC Region-North Central
Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Northeast
Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Northwest
Place_Keyword: FWC Region-South
Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Southwest
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Water Management Districts
Place_Keyword: Northwest Florida Water Management District
Place_Keyword: South Florida Water Management District
Place_Keyword: Southwest Florida Water Management District
Place_Keyword: St. Johns River Water Management District
Place_Keyword: Suwannee River Water Management District
Access_Constraints:
Available with Caution. All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes.
Use_Constraints:
Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 8th Ave. SE
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: FMRI-DC
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
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Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
All entities and attributes have been identified. The accuracy of the attributes has not been verified by FMRI.
Completeness_Report: QA/QC incomplete
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Positional accuracy has not been verified by FMRI.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)
Title: camra_mrgis_wetland_fl_nwi
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details: Source date: 1970s, 1980s
Online_Linkage: <http://www.nwi.fws.gov>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000
Type_of_Source_Media: 72-3 1:80K CIR photos,1980s 1:58K CIR photos
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Time_of_Day: unknown
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USFWS, NWI
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD)
Publication_Date: 1990
Title: camra_mrgis_landuse_swfwmd_1990_H
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000
Type_of_Source_Media: CIR Photography
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 1990
Time_of_Day: Unknown
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: SWFWMD
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Statewide Tidal flats were extracted from FL_NWI (FMRI.wetland_fl_nwi_poly), and SWFWMD 1990 LULC (FMRI.landuse_swfwmd_1990_poly_H). Compiled by FMRI
Process_Date: Unknown
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: GISLibrarian
Contact_Organization:
FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com
Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Metadata imported.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: C:\DOCUME~1\CHRIS~1.DAU\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml193.tmp
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 8627
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 0.000000
Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: FMRI.tidalflats_fl_nwi_poly
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DATE_
Attribute_Definition: Date of information. 1972-1983, 1990
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SHAPE
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SOURCE
Attribute_Definition: Source of information.
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: SWFWMD
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Southwest Florida Water Management District
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: NWI
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: National Wetlands Inventory
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: TDLFLAT
Attribute_Definition: Numerical tidal flat indicator.
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 9
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SHAPE_AREA
Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in internal units squared.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SHAPE_LEN
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: GISLibrarian
Contact_Organization:
FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com
Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
This data set is in the public domain, and the recipient may not assert any proprietary rights thereto nor represent it to anyone as other than a FWC-FWRI produced data set or the appropriate originator; it is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The user assumes all responsibility for the accuracy and suitability of this data set for a specific application. In no event will the staff of the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of or the inability to use this data set.
Standard_Order_Process:
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Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: SHP
Transfer_Size: 12.557
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Fees:
None. However, persons or organizations requesting information must provide transfer media if FTP is not available and must pay express shipping costs if express shipping is required.
Ordering_Instructions:
Contact GIS Librarian by e-mail, telephone, or letter explaining which products are needed and providing a brief description of how the products will be used. Also, provide name and address of the person or organization requesting the products.
Turnaround:
Usually within 10 business days, although, complex requests may take longer
Custom_Order_Process:
These data have caveats. Contact GIS Librarian for details. If these data are maintained by an agency other than FWC-FWRI, then the source agency should be contacted directly for requests.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20020301
Metadata_Review_Date: 20060503
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: GISLibrarian
Contact_Organization:
FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com
Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Access_Constraints: No restrictions on metadata.
Metadata_Use_Constraints: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.
Metadata_Security_Information:
Metadata_Security_Classification_System: FMRI-MC
Metadata_Security_Classification: Available
Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.
Metadata_Extensions:
Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile
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Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
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