Johnson's Seagrass Critical Habitat

Metadata:

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• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
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• Distribution_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: NOAA/NMFS Southeast Regional Office

Publication_Date: Unpublished Material

Title: Johnson's Seagrass Critical Habitat

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce

Publication_Date: 20000329

Title:

Designated Critical Habitat: Critical Habitat for Johnson's Seagrass, [Docket No. 991116305-0083-02; I.D. No. 110599D][A]

Online_Linkage: <http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/GISDataandMaps.htm>

Description:

Abstract:

These data represent the critical habitat for Johnson's Seagrass as designated by Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 66, Wednesday, April 5, 2000, Rules and Regulations.

Purpose:

The purpose of these data is to visually represent the critical habitat areas for GIS analysis and display.

Supplemental_Information:

In addition to the coordinates provided in the Federal Register document, the following data were used to assist in the production of this dataset: US Army Corps of Engineers - IWW_IR to DA.dgn (Microstation Design File depicting the Intracoastal Waterway), Miami Harbor 83-90.dgn (Microstation Design File depicting the federally authourized navigation channels in Miami Harbor; According to the USACE, these channels are likely to be updated in the near future). St. John's River Water Management District - cb24_det.e00 (ArcInfo Interchange format file, converted to an ArcInfo Coverage depicting a detailed shoreline, last update 12/10/99.) Edited February 2012. See process steps.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20031114

Time_of_Day: unknown

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.465414

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.042778

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 27.854603

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.749997

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Johnson's Seagrass

Theme_Keyword: Critical Habitat

Theme_Keyword: GIS

Theme_Keyword: Seagrass

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Florida

Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean

Place_Keyword: Sebastian Inlet

Place_Keyword: Fort Pierce Inlet

Place_Keyword: Indian River Lagoon

Place_Keyword: St. Lucie Inlet

Place_Keyword: Hobe Sound

Place_Keyword: Jupiter Inlet

Place_Keyword: Lake Worth

Place_Keyword: Lake Worth Lagoon

Place_Keyword: Lake Wyman

Place_Keyword: Biscayne Bay

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

Due to the collection of data used in this analysis from multiple data sources, some instances occur where the USACE ICW file intersects areas of the SJRWMD file classified as "Land", particularly in the vicinity of Hobe Sound. Clearly this is not the real world situation and efforts will be made to resolve these conflicts in the data. At this time, these were the best data available. The text description in 50 CFR Part 226 is always the one, true definition of Johnson's seagrass critical habitat. These or any other depictions are for information purposes only and shouldn't be relied on for regulatory purposes.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NOAA/NMFS Southeast Regional Office

Contact_Person: Amanda Frick

Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 263 13th Ave South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-824-5312

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-824-5309

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: amanda.frick@noaa.gov

Hours_of_Service: Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:30pm

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report: Unknown

Completeness_Report: Complete pending review

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

A point layer was created using the coordinates in the Federal Register. Those points were then used to digitize polygons. The polygons were then "clipped" to a detailed shoreline (cb24_det.e00) obtained from St. John's River Water Management District (SJRWMD). Following the clip operation, microstation design files of the ICW and Miami Harbor navigation channels were obtained from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and converted to shapefiles. The final ICW shapefile was created by using a 62.5ft buffer on either side of the centerline and editing that buffer file to match the widening areas in the vicinity of the critical habitat areas. The final Miami Harbor shapefile was created by digitizing a polygon over the channel edge line work in the design file. An Edit Clip was then performed to "punch a hole" through the Critical Habitat areas where they intersected the ICW and the Miami Harbor navigation channel, thus excluding the federally authorized navigation channels from the Critical Habitat areas. Finally, the data in the vicinity of Miami Harbor in Biscayne Bay were edited visually to correspond to the paper maps in the federal register document. Additionally, all data used were reprojected to match the detailed shoreline. (UTM Zone 17, NAD 83, HARN)

Process_Date: 20031114

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC)

Contact_Person: Chris Henton

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst/Metadata Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: Builing 1100

City: Stennis Space Center

State_or_Province: MS

Postal_Code: 39529

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 228-688-2354

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 228-688-2968

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: chris.henton@noaa.gov

Hours_of_Service: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Process_Step:

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NOAA/NMFS Southeast Regional Office

Contact_Person: Amanda Frick

Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 263 13th Ave South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-824-5312

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-824-5309

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: amanda.frick@noaa.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9:00am-5:30pm M-F

Process_Description:

2011/2012 edits to shapefile: (a) Indian River north Sebastian Inlet: The original shapefile from NCDDC used an erroneous vertex in the SE corner. I recreated the polygon according to eCFR 50 CFR 226.213 in 2007. All else OK. (b) Indian River south Sebastian Inlet: OK (c) Indian River Lagoon - Fort Pierce inlet: OK (d) Indian River Lagoon - St. Lucie Inlet: The western coordinates of the original shapefile were on the west side of the ICW, and there were sliver polygons on the west side. I included the ICW in the shapefile, and created one solid polygon. I also redigitized the eastern side along the shoreline using Bing Maps as a background in ArcMap. (e) Hobe Sound: The coordinate in the FR is suppose to be at SR 708, but looking at Bing Maps, it is to the south. I edited the shapefile to continue north to SR 708. I also made one big poly that does not depict the ICW exclusion. The polygon shorelines were also edited to follow the Bing Maps background. (f) Jupiter Inlet: In this area, a point was added to the southern boundary to better define the shoreline. Both the South center and SE points are on land, and the SW corner is in the water. none are at the shoreline. I was instructed to digitize a boundary that followed the shoreline (again, employing heads-up digitizing techniques using Bing Maps). (g) Lake Worth: the original shapefile had a 4 vertice polygon that approximated the shoreline on the south side. I was instructed to digitize the shoreline along the south side using Bing Maps as a guide. (h) Lake Worth Lagoon - Boynton Inlet: There is an error in the rule for this area. The NE and NW coordinates are reversed. Also, the eastern coordinates are in the ICW, so I edited the polygon to go all the way to the coordinates (the shape file does not exclude the ICW). I also redigitized the western edge to follow the Bing Maps shoreline. (i) Lake Wyman: There is an error in the rule for the area. The SW and SE corners are reversed. The original shapefile excluded the ICW, so I redigitized the polygon to extend to the published coordinates. This unit did not follow the shoreline on the eastern side, so I redigitized it to follow the Bing Maps shoreline. (j) A portion of Northern Biscayne Bay, FL: I received a new Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve boundary from Florida DEP, Bureau of Survey and Mapping, Division of State Lands (rev. 2010). The boundary is from Section 258.39 (11) Florida Statutes, and Section 258.397. They send me the exterior boundary for the AP. They said that the law for the boundary has not changed, but the boundary is more accurate now. If there are questions about specific sites within the boundary, contact the Title and Land Records Section of the Bureau of Survey and Mapping Division of State Lands (850)245-2788.

Process_Date: 02/16/2012

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984

Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224

Geographic:

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Latitude_Resolution: 0.000000

Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: JohnsonsSeagrass_Critical_Habitat

Entity_Type_Definition:

Critical Habitat for Johnson Seagrass as of February 16, 2012 with visual edits made based on existing maps.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Id

Attribute_Definition:

User Assigned Unit Identification number used for data creation.

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Numbers have no specific meaning, just a means of organizing shapes as the data were being digitized.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Location

Attribute_Definition: Name of physical location of designated unit

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Name used for identification purposes

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20120216

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NOAA/NMFS Southeast Regional Office

Contact_Person: Amanda Frick

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 263 13th Ave South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-824-5312

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-824-5309

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: amanda.frick@noaa.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9am-5:30pm, Monday through Friday

Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>

Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

Lineage:

Distribution_Information:

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