WRAP is a methodology developed by South Florida Water Management District. It is intended to be used
by a number of state of Florida agencies such as the Department of Transportation. WRAP is a standard
and consistent tool for use in environmental assessment of wetlands in the State of Florida.
The GeoPlan Center at the University of Florida, developed an ArcView application on this matrix.
The functionality of the application is focused on the office component of the WRAP methodology,
both prior and after on-site wetland evaluation. Functions include identification of wetlands in
the road project corridor, usage of the aerial photography to delineate more accurately recent
changes, identification of adjacent land uses, habitat, soils, hydrology, species etc.,
automation of the field data sheet and the wetland impact scoring system.
Documentation of the findings in the field is supported by the ability to hot link photos of
species and other physical aspects of wetlands with the digital database.
Additionally the application creates web pages that document the analysis including layouts,
statistical tables, and field data sheets, photos and comments that can be attached to email
or posted on the web. This allows sharing of results among specialist and facilitates
interagency coordination during the wetland assessment process.