FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2003, RELEASED NOVEMBER, 2002.

TITLE: WETLANDS 2000

Geodataset Name:      WTLNDS_00
Geodataset Type:      SPATIAL VIEW
Geodataset Feature:   POLYGON

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

This dataset contains wetlands selected from the state-wide Florida Land Use Land Cover Classification System 2000 data set (LU00).

DATA SOURCE(S):			   South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)
                                   Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD)
                                   St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD)

SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     1:24000 USGS Quads, 1:40000 Aerial Photos

DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE:      1999 

GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State-wide

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES

ITEM NAME     WIDTH        TYPE      PRECISION
FLUCCS         4           Decimal      0
LEVEL1        50           Character    -
LEVEL2        50           Character    -
DESCRIPT      50           Character    -

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

ITEM                 DESCRIPTION

FLUCCS               Florida Land Use Land Cover Classification System code (see below)
LEVEL2               Descriptive text of FLUCCS level 2 classification
DESCRIPT             Full text Description of FLUCCS (see below)

6000

WETLANDS

6100

Wetland Hardwood Forest

6110

Bay Swamps

6111

Bayhead

6120

Mangrove Swamp

6121

Black Mangrove

6122

White Mangrove

6123

White Mangrove or Buttonwood

6124

Red Mangrove

6125

Mixed Mangrove/Buttonwood Forest

6126

Tree Islands

6130

Gum Swamps

6140

Titi Swamps

6150

Stream and Lake Swamps / Bottomlands

6160

Inland Ponds and Sloughs

6170

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods

6171

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Willows

6172

Mixed Weland Hardwoods - Mixed Shrubs

6173

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Pond Apple

6174

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Groundsel Bush

6175

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Buttonbush

6176

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Pop Ash

6177

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Primrose

6178

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Wax Mrytle

6179

Mixed Wetland Hardwoods - Cocoplum

6180

Cabbage Palm Savannah

6181

Wet Melaleuca

6190

Exotic Wetland Hardwoods (Brazilian pepper, melaleuca, or other exotic species)

6192

Palm Savanna

6200

Wetland Coniferous Forest

6210

Cypress

6211

Dwarf Cypress

6212

Cypress - with Pines

6215

Cypress - Domes/Heads

6216

Cypress - Mixed Hardwoods

6217

Cypress - Pines

6218

Cypress - Melaleuca Infested

6219

Cypress with wet prairie

6220

Pond Pines

6230

Atlantic White Cedar

6240

Cypress - Pine - Cabbage Palm

6250

Wet Pinelands / Pine Savanna

6251

Slash Pines with Cypress

6252

Slash Pines with Hardwoods

6253

Slash Pines with Palms

6260

Paurotis Palm Forest

6270

Slash Pine Swamp Forest

6300

Wetland Forested Mixed

6310

Mixed Hardwoods, Cypress, Pines

6320

New Tidal Swamp

6400

Vegetated Non-Forested Wetlands

6410

Freshwater Marshes

6411

Freshwater Marshes - Sawgrass

6412

Freshwater Marshes - Cattail

6413

Freshwater Marshes - Spike Rush

6414

Freshwater Marshes - Maidencane

6415

Freshwater Marshes - Mixed Graminoids (Dog Fennel and Low Marsh Grasses)

6416

Freshwater Marshes - Arrowroot

6417

Freshwater Marshes - Non-Graminoid Emergent Marsh (with shrubs, brush, and vines)

6418

Freshwater Marshes - Muhly Grass

6419

Freshwater Marshes - Maidencane/Spike Rush

6420

Saltwater Marshes

6421

Saltwater Marshes - Cordgrass

6422

Saltwater Marshes - Needlerush

6423

Saltwater Marshes - Black Rush

6424

Saltwater Marshes - Common Reed

6425

Saltwater Marshes - Graminoid

6426

Saltwater Marshes - Succulent

6430

Wet Prairies

6439

Wet Prairies with Pine

6440

Emergent Aquatic Vegetation

6441

Water Lettuce

6442

Spatterdock

6443

Water Hyacinth

6444

Duck Weed

6445

Water Lily

6446

Floating/Floating Attached Emergents

6450

Submergent Aquatic Vegetation

6451

Hydrilla

6460

Mixed Scrub-Shrub Wetland (Treeless Hydric Savanna)

6500

Non-Vegetated Wetlands

6510

Tidal Flats

6520

Shorelines

6530

Intermittent Ponds

6540

Oyster Bars

6600

Cut Over Wetland

6900

Wetland Scrub Shrub

USER NOTES:

The goal of this dataset was to rectify and update existing 1995 Land Use data using a combination of SJRWMD, SFWMD, and SWFWMD Land uses FROM 2000. Land Use boundaries are not always well defined, however, given the use of ancillary data sources to determine feature boundaries, it is expected that data acreage should be accurate.

Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data.

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries.

1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level.

1:250000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger.

Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at:

http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:

-Merged Land Use layers then ran topology in ArcCatalog to get rid of gaps and overlaps
-Reprojected data to FGDL Albers
-Added DESCRIPT item based on Land Use Classification FLUCCS

REFERENCES:

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

The statewide landuse/landcover data set was created by merging together 3 separate datasets 
covering the geographic extent of the Florida Water Management Districts.  For overlapping areas, 
precedence was given in the following order: SWFWMD, SJRWMD, SFWMD.

MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS

Projection                           ALBERS
Units                                METERS
Datum                                HPGN
Spheroid                             GRS1980
1st standard parallel                24   0  0.000
2nd standard parallel                31  30  0.000
central meridian                    -84   0  0.000
latitude of projection's origin      24   0  0.000 
false easting (meters)               400000.00000
false northing (meters)              0.00000

DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):

Name:                  SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 
Abbr.name:             SWFWMD
Address:               2379 Broad Street
                       Brooksville, FL 34609-6899
Phone:                 352-796-7211 
Web site:              www.swfwmd.state.fl.us    
Name:                   SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
Abbr. Name:             SFWMD
Address:                South Florida Water Management District
                        P.O. Box 24680
                        301 Gun Club Rd
                        West Palm Beach, FL 33416-4680
Phone:                  1-800-662-turn  or  (561) 686-8800
Web site:               http://www.sfwmd.gov         
Contact Person:         
         Phone:         (561) 687- 6718

Name:                   ST. JOHN'S RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT 
                        DISTRICT
Abbr. Name:             SJRWMD
Address:                St. John's River Water Management District
                        P.O. Box 1429
                        Palatka FL 32178-1429
Phone:                  (904) 329-4500
Fax:                    1-800-451-7106
Web site:               http://sjr.state.fl.us/index.html      
Contact Person:         Data Administrator

FGDL CONTACT:

Name:                   FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY
Abbr. Name:             FGDL
Address:                Florida Geographic Data Library
                        431 Architecture Building
                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
Web site:               http://www.fgdl.org

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