Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Restoration 20040301 vector digital data Tallahassee, FL Florida Department of Environmental Protection Alachua County (Partial Coverage), Baker County (Partial Coverage), Bradford County, Columbia County, Dixie County, Gilchrist County, Hamilton County, Jefferson County (Partial Coverage), Lafayette County, Levy County, Madison County, Suwannee County, Taylor County, and Union County. http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/ This dataset, created by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's (FDEP) Bureau of Watershed Restoration, is an inventory of Land use - Land Cover classified in the State of Florida's Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) and is based on 2004 Digital Ortho Quarter Quad Aerial Imagery program Color Infrared and True color photography. Classifications are provided for level 1, 2, 3 and a few level 4 (indicated in Land use and Secondary Code fields) land uses. Please note: The field names in the original attribute table from FDEP/SRWMD were renamed by the GeoPlan Center. The original field names from FDEP/SRWMD are listed in the Process Steps (Data Quality Section) and in the Attribute Definitions (Entity and Attribute Information section). All Water Management District land use datasets distributed via FGDL will contain these standardized field names, for ease of using land use data at the statewide extent. Analyses of Land Use - Land Cover GIS information provide environmental scientists an understanding of the relationships between human activities, land surface physiography and water resources. Florida's landscape is quickly changing and as a result, at the time prior to this layer's creation, existing land use - land cover GIS layers for the Suwannee River area were out-of-date. A more current layer was needed to improve the accuracy of these analyses. The creation of this layer involves photo interpretation; for this data layer the classification of the land surface into one or two of 170 types. It is the nature of interpretation that it involves the assessment of multiple sources of information, primarily the color, shape, pattern, horizontal size, vertical height, texture and context of features in a photograph and secondarily, information provided in ancillary data layers to arrive at a conclusive attribute assignment. Conclusion is a product of a weights-of-evidence analysis and as compared to direct measurement is subject to larger variability. Several staff were involved in the creation of this layer and an individual's skill at photo interpretation is a known variable among several affecting accuracy. In an effort to improve accuracy and limit variation between photo interpreters skills, the following methods were employed: 1. Sought photo interpreters who had several years of experience. 2. Provided like-training when at all possible 3. Held ongoing field trips to "calibrate" photo features with real world features. 4. Tested photo interpreters and compared results as a qualitative assessment of variation prior to production of the layer 5. Assessed each photo interpreters work weekly to assure compliance with methodological rules 6. Randomly selected classified polygons and made field trips monthly to verify classifications, results were provided to Photo interpreters Largest variation occurred between 6170: Mixed Wetland Hardwoods and 6300: Wetland Forested Mixed classifications. It is difficult in some instances to distinguish between coniferous signatures and colors reflected from hardwoods that keep their leaves throughout the winter when photographs were flown. It too is labor intensive to accurately determine the proportion of hardwood versus coniferous trees in these mixed classifications when polygons can be quite large and access constraints because of private property postings are numerous so field verifications of these classifications yield information of limited value. 20031201 20040301 publication date Complete As needed -84.009165 -82.029991 30.660130 29.085398 None Land Use Land Use Land Cover FLUCCS LULC Land Cover None Suwannee River Taylor County Suwannee River Water Management District SRWMD Madison County Suwannee County Jefferson County (Partial Coverage) Hamilton County Lafayette County Alachua County (Partial Coverage) Levy County Dixie County Gilchrist County Columbia County Florida Union County Baker County (Partial Coverage) Bradford County None 2004 None THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS. A note about data scale: 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. 1:125000 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 analysis. 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 webpage at: http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html FDEP Use Constraints: This data is intended to be used for general informational and planning purposes, and is not appropriate for legal and/or cadastral purposes Florida Department of Environmental Protection Joseph North Environmental Manager mailing

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Tallahassee FL 32399 US (850)245-8537 (850)245-7571 Joe.North@dep.state.fl.us 8am to 5pm Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Restoration Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 Florida Department of Environmental Protection: Watershed Management http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/ Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) http://www.srwmd.state.fl.us/ GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our knowledge. Reported Horizontal accuracy is not better than the source imagery upon which this dataset has been developed. Source imagery is USGS's 3.75 minute Digital Ortho Quarter Quad (DOQQ) program imagery which meets National Map Accuracy Standards for products developed at 1:12K scale which specifies that over "90% of well defined points tested must fall within 33 feet" of ground condition and National Aerial Photography Program Standards. This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan 0 None Spatial and Attribute Information 6. Photo interpreters corrected errors and continued work. FDEP 4. At the enterprise completion point, these large areas were updated with work performed in the personal geodatabase environment and an effort was performed to remove all sliver polygons, eliminate overlapping polygons, seek out and resolve classification differences between different photo interpreter's work and inspect for any other oddments in the dataset. FDEP 2. This large polygon was subdivided to allow the unique assignment of smaller areas to each photo interpreter. Subdivisions were based on a number of long linear features that were themselves classification types. This effectively reduced the amount of edge matching that would have to take place when subdivided polygons were stitched back together. These classes included; Streams and Waterways, Electrical Power Transmission Lines, Railroads, Highways. FDEP 5. At the end of one week, a Quality Assurance manager reviewed each photo interpreter's work to assure compliance with the following rules: Minimum mapping unit convention (one half acre for the 5000 and 6000 classifications, five acres for the 3000 classifications and two acres for all others), Overuse of level II codes, the need to merge contingent same-coded polygons, dual coding conventions (The 1100 class (Low Density Residential), 1650 Reclaimed Lands, 1730 Military, 1920 Inactive Land with street patterns but without structures and 8340 Sewage Treatment always get a separate and different dual code. The following optionally may be assigned a different dual code value – 1750 Governmental, 1850 Parks and Zoos, 2310 Cattle Feeding Operations, 2320 Poultry Feeding Operations, 2510 Horse Farms, 2520 Dairies, 8350 Solid Waste Disposal, 5300 Reservoirs.) Violations of methodological rules were delivered to photo interpreters in the form of a point feature class with coded domain values defining the nature of the violation. FDEP 7. Each individual subdivided area was regrouped via ArcGIS Toolbox Update command and joined with the completed enterprise area created as mentioned below. Roughly one third of the District was created in the personal geodatabase environment. FDEP Second Phase - Enterprise Environment 1. Polygons representing the balance of the area was copied into a predefined Geodatabase Schema, this was provided to OTIS/GIS and copied into a versioned enterprise Geodatabase (SDE Version 9.1, Oracle 9.2) FDEP 5. Land use and Dual Code description fields were added to the attribute table by joining a .dbf containing these values. FDEP 3. Initially, a personal geodatabase was created for each subdivided area and delivered to each Photo interpreter individually. FDEP 3. Weekly and Monthly QA and topology checks performed as outlined above FDEP 4. In ArcGIS, ArcInfo version 9.1, each Photo interpreter began cutting smaller polygons from the large parent polygon they were delivered. FDEP 2. Photointerpreters were assigned individual areas and began cutting parent polygons and classifying subdivisions FDEP Initial Phase - Personal Geodatabase Environment 1. A polygon feature class representing the Suwannee River Water Management District was created by merging FWC's shoreline SDE layer and the boundaries of the SRWMD Area as defined by FDEP's SDE.BASE_WATER_MGMT_AREAS FDEP The new LULC data set received by OTIS/GIS Section from WRM and inserted in ArcSDE. Metadata updated. FDEP 20080328 The GeoPlan Center received the original dataset SRWMD_LANDUSE_2004.shp from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Bureau of Watershed Restoration via FTP on April 10, 2008. The dataset was originally in the FDEP Albers projection which matched the FGDL Albers projection so the FDEP .prj file was swapped out for the FGDL .prj file. Next the records in the attribute table were UPPERCASED. Below is the original FDEP SRWMD file structure: ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE Shape 0 Geometry OID_ 4 Integer LANDUSE_CODE 4 Integer SECONDARY_CODE 4 Integer LANDUSE_DESCRIPTION 85 String SECONDARY_DESCRIPTION 85 String LEVEL_1_LANDUSE 4 String LEVEL_2_LANDUSE 4 String LEVEL_3_LANDUSE 4 String OBJECTID 4 OID Below is the crosswalk table between the original file structure and the new file structure: ORIGINAL NAME NEW NAME Shape Same OID_ Deleted LANDUSE_CODE FLUCCS SECONDARY_CODE OTHER LANDUSE_DESCRIPTION LANDUSE_DE SECONDARY_DESCRIPTION SECONDARY2 LEVEL_1_LANDUSE FLUCCS_L1 LEVEL_2_LANDUSE FLUCCS_L2 LEVEL_3_LANDUSE FLUCCS_L3 OBJECTID Deleted Additionally GeoPlan added and populated the following fields: SOURCE SOURCE2 LEVEL1 LEVEL2 LEVEL3 FLUCCSCOMP ACRES DESCRIPT FGDLAQDATE AUTOID GeoPlan 20080428 Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. GeoPlan 20080515 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 166680 NAD 1983 HARN Florida GDL Albers 24.0 31.5 -84.0 24.0 400000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 HARN GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 LU_SRWMD_2004 LU_SRWMD_2004.DBF GeoPlan OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. FLUCCS The land use and land cover classification code as defined in the Florida DOT's FLUCCS classification system. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District layer. GeoPlan SRWMD LANDUSE_CODE - The primary classification type assignment. This may be either a land use classification or a land cover classification in the case that keys to identification indicate a physiographic feature. SRWMD uses an adopted classification scheme, for more information on the adopted classification scheme please the Attribute Overview Description Section. GeoPlan OTHER The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. GeoPlan SRWMD SECONDARY_CODE - A secondary classification assigned to account for the fact that any given polygon may have more than one use or a use and a physiographic cover. GeoPlan LANDUSE_DE A brief definition of the class code: description of the primary land use or land cover FDEP SECONDARY2 A brief definition of the class code: description of the secondary land use or land cover. FDEP SOURCE Water Management District of Coverage/Origin. GeoPlan SOURCE2 Agency of Origin: Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Bureau of Watershed Restoration. GeoPlan FLUCCS_L1 The highest level (level 1) designation in a hierarchical coding scheme containing 4 levels. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. FDEP SRWMD LEVEL_1_LANDUSE FDEP LEVEL1 Level 1 land use description, based on the FDOT classification schema. GeoPlan FLUCCS_L2 The second highest level (level 2) designation in a hierarchical coding scheme containing 4 levels. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. FDEP SRWMD LEVEL_2_LANDUSE FDEP LEVEL2 Level 2 land use description, based on the FDOT classification schema. GeoPlan FLUCCS_L3 The third highest level (level 3) designation in a hierarchical coding scheme containing 4 levels. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. FDEP SRWMD LEVEL_3_LANDUSE FDEP LEVEL3 Level 3 land use description, based on the FDOT classification schema. There is a possibility that the FDOT Level 3 description does not match that of the Water Management District, for those occurrences this discrepancy has been identified in the FLUCCSCOMP field. GeoPlan FLUCCSCOMP This field represents a comparision between the dataset's FLUCCS code description and the FDOT FLUCCS code description. Where these two descriptions differed a number one was inserted. GeoPlan ACRES Number of Acres. GeoPlan DESCRIPT Based on the field LANDUSE_DE, however the classification numbers were removed from the front of each record. GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source. GeoPlan AUTOID GeoPlan Center feature identification number. GeoPlan SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. SHAPE.AREA Area in meters GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters GeoPlan The adopted classification scheme has resulted from the following process: 1. Potential classification types originally taken from Florida Department of Transportations "Florida Land use, cover and forms classification system" 2. Conformity with SJRWMD's classification system was sought whenever possible out of an interest in creating a data layer that would result in a product that was seamless in terms of its geometry and attribution with this contingent area. 3. Bureau of Watershed Restoration, Watershed Assessment Section (WAS) Managers reviewed a preliminary list for the purpose of identifying classification types that contributed to sources of pollution and those that allowed them to identify natural conditions that may have an effect on water quality impairment. This led to the removal of some classification types from the preliminary list to form a WAS wants list. 4. Photo interpreters reviewed the available photography for the purpose of determining which of the WAS wants list could and could not be classified. For example, the resolution of the imagery allowed a photointerpreter to confidently assign the level 3 class code of 2140: Row Crops to a polygon but not of any of the Level 4 codes (see next item). 5. The FLUCC's system is hierarchical; it includes four levels that build in terms of specificity: A Level 1 classification is the most general it is a four digit code in which the first integer in the code is assigned one of eight numbers; 1000 = Urban and Built up class, 2000 = Agricultural, 3000 = Rangeland, 4000 = Upland Forests, 5000 = Water, 6000 = Wetlands, 7000 = Barren Land and 8000 = Transportation, Communications, Utilities. The second integer (and each successive integer) provides a subclassification of a higher specificity. For example 2100 (Level II) Class is Crop and pasture land a subtype of the 2000 Agricultural class, 2150 (Level III) : Field Crops is a specific subtype of the 2100 Crop and pasture land subtype. Further, 2153 (Level iV) is a specific subtype of the 2150 class. Very few level 4 classifications have been chosen. This is so because discernment of the keys to classification for these classes typically require imagery of a higher resolution than our source imagery. The Level 4 designation is indicated in either the Land Use Code or Secondary Code Fields of the attribute table. 6. A few classification types were added to accommodate needs that were specific to the Water Management districts. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Land Use Descriptions: 1000 Urban and Built-up 1100 Residential, low density 1120 Mobile home units, low density 1200 Residential, medium density 1220 Mobile home units, medium density 1300 Residential, high density 1320 Mobile home units, high density 1400 Commercial and services 1420 Junk Yards 1440 Cultural and entertainment 1460 Tourist services 1480 Cemeteries 1500 Industrial 1560 Other Heavy Industrial 1600 Extractive 1610 Strip Mines 1620 Sand and gravel pits 1630 Rock quarries 1640 Oil and gas fields 1660 Holding ponds 1700 Institutional 1710 Educational facilities 1720 Religious 1730 Military 1740 Medical and Health care 1750 Governmental 1760 Correctional 1790 Institutional under construction 1800 Recreational 1810 Swimming beach 1820 Golf Courses 1830 Race Tracks 1840 marinas and fish camps 1850 Parks and zoos 1860 Community recreational facilities 1870 Stadiums 1880 Historic sites 1890 Other recreational 1900 Open land (Urban) 2000 Agriculture 2100 Cropland and pastureland 2200 Tree crops 2300 Feeding operations 2400 Nurseries and vineyards 2500 Specialty farms 2540 Aquaculture 2600 Other open land (Rural) 3000 Rangeland 3200 Shrub and brushland 3220 Coastal scrub 3300 Mixed rangeland 4000 Upland Forests 4100 Upland coniferous forests 4130 Sand pines 4200 Upland hardwood forests 4340 Mixed coniferous/hardwood 4350 Dead trees 4400 Tree plantations 4410 Coniferous plantations 4430 Forest regeneration areas 5000 Water 5100 Streams and waterways 5200 Lakes 5300 Reservoirs 5400 Bays and estuaries 5410 Embayments opening directly into the Gulf 5420 Embayments not opening directly into the Gulf 5600 Slough waters 5700 Oceans, Seas, and Gulf's 6000 Wetlands 6100 Wetland hardwood forests 6110 Bay swamps 6120 Mangrove swamps 6130 Gum swamps 6150 Stream and lake swamps 6160 Inland ponds and sloughs 6200 Wetland coniferous forests 6210 Cypress 6230 Atlantic cedar 6300 Wetland forested mixed 6400 Vegetated non-forested wetlands 6410 Freshwater marshes 6420 Saltwater marshes 6440 Emergent aquatic vegetation 6500 Non-vegetated 6510 Tidal flats 6530 Intermittent ponds 6900 Wetland shrub 7000 Barren land 7100 Beaches 7200 Sand other than beaches 7300 Exposed rocks 7400 Disturbed land 7420 Borrow areas 7450 Burned areas 7500 Riverine sandbars 8000 Transportation, communications, and utilities 8100 Transportation 8110 Airports 8120 Railroads 8140 Roads and highways 8150 Port facilities 8160 Canals and docks 8170 Oil, water, or gas transmission lines 8180 Auto parking facilities 8200 Communications 8210 Transmissions towers 8220 Communication facilities 8300 Utilities 8310 Electrical power facilities 8320 Electrical power transmission lines 8330 Water supply plants 8340 Sewage treatment 8350 Solid waste disposal Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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