WR_MMR_Manatee_Synoptic Surveys_Flightpath
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- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator:
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FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
- Publication_Date: Unpublished material
- Title: WR_MMR_Manatee_Synoptic Surveys_Flightpath
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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Database contains flight routes for the 2009 Synoptic Survey. Manatee
synoptic surveys are used to obtain minimum counts of Florida manatees
statewide. These surveys are conducted over 1 to 3 days in winter
aerial surveys of manatees that cover all of the manatee's wintering
habitats in Florida and Southeast Georgia. Surveys can be conducted up
to 3 times per winter, after cold fronts pass through Florida (December
- March). When it is coldest, manatees aggregate at natural warm
springs and thermal discharges from power and industrial plants.
- Purpose: To obtain a general (minimum) count of manatees statewide.
- Supplemental_Information:
- Related grant: USFWS2305 -Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and
Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine
Research Institute (FMRI). The Institute's name has not been changed in
historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida
Marine Research Institute. The Institute's name has been changed in
references to ongoing research, new research, and contact
information.--
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 200401
- Beginning_Time: Unknown
- Ending_Date: Present
- Ending_Time: Unknown
- Currentness_Reference: Project dates
- Status:
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- Progress: In work
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Annually
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.218014
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.883625
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.7253
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.661581
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRI Theme
- Theme_Keyword: manatees
- Theme_Keyword: marine mammals
- Theme_Keyword: threatened and endangered (turtles, whales, manatees, sturgeon)
- Theme_Keyword: research
- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme_Keyword: biota
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRI Place
- Place_Keyword: Florida
- Place_Keyword: Georgia
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWC Region
- Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Southwest
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Water Management Districts
- Place_Keyword: Southwest Florida Water Management District
- Temporal:
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- Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Temporal_Keyword: winter
- Access_Constraints:
- All data must be verified by Principle 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.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Edwards, Holly
- Contact_Organization:
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FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Contact_Person:
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
- City: St. Petersburg
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33701-5095
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-823-0166
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: metadata@MyFWC.com
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
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https://mermaid.ncddc.noaa.gov/fwc/fwri/wr/mmr/db/fwc_fwri_wr_mmr00058/idinfo/browse/counties_24k_poly_withH2O.jpg
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description: image of study area
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: jpeg
- Data_Set_Credit:
- Various organizations and researchers contributed to the
surveys in various years. Contributing organizations include: FWC/FWRI,
Mote Marine Laboratory, Wildlife Trust, Dynamac Corp./NASA, Dade and
Broward County DERMs, Georgia DEP, Jacksonville University, USFWS,
Everglades National Park. Data verified by observers and by Holly
Edwards. Related grant: USFWS 2305
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
- Each survey team was supplied with a theoretical flight route
as a guideline. The observers were responsible for recording the
aircrafts actual flight route using a GPS. The flight routes were
downloaded as a digital polyline.
- Logical_Consistency_Report: QAQC complete
- Completeness_Report:
- The flight routes for Broward, Charlotte, Miami-Dade, and Palm
Beach Counties and Blue Springs and Warm Mineral Springs were not
recorded and are omitted from this .shp file. The included flight
routes include unsurveyed segments from take-off to the beginning of
the survey and from the end of the survey to landing.
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
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Manatee location and flight routes digized off hand-written maps.
- Lineage:
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- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
- Each survey team supplied a map packet of their county/region.
The maps provided contain the estimated flight paths that where hand
drawn while in route. An observer in the aircraft was responsible for
charting the aircrafts course and recording manatee sightings. Using
ArcMap, heads up digitizing was used to transfer the hand drawn flight
paths to a digital polyline. For QAQC, printed versions of the
digitized flight paths where distributed back to the individuals
responsible for drawing the original path. Corrections where made on
these maps and then returned for digital updating/editing. A second
edited edition of the maps was redistributed for final approval. Some
additional edits where made at this time and then given the final
approval by each surveying team.
- Process_Date: continuous
- Cloud_Cover: Unknown
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
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- SDTS_Terms_Description:
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- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 61
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Planar:
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- Map_Projection:
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- Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
- Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:
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- Standard_Parallel: 24
- Standard_Parallel: 31.5
- Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -84
- Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 24
- False_Easting: 400000
- False_Northing: 0
- Planar_Coordinate_Information:
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- Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Coordinate Pair
- Coordinate_Representation:
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- Abscissa_Resolution: 0.001024
- Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001024
- Planar_Distance_Units: meters
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: ETS_manatee_synoptic_flightpath
- Entity_Type_Definition:
- This database contains the digitized flight path for the 2009
synoptic survey. For point ID, date, species, zone, number of adults,
number of calves, total number, behavior, notes, and X- and
Y-coordinates see ETS_manatee_ synoptic_survey database.
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: MMR data sheet or GPS
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: COMMENTS
- Attribute_Definition:
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Suppplemental information about the flight path. Most power plants where circled numerous times
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FID
- Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain:
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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FLIGHT_ID
- Attribute_Definition: Fields with "4" are 2004 updates
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FLIGHT_NUM
- Attribute_Definition:
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Unique value identifying each flight path. Date and county flown are included in name.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: LABEL
- Attribute_Definition: Provided to label the start of each route
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: Length
- Attribute_Definition: RI tags
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: OBJECTID
- Attribute_Definition: RI tags
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: Shape
- Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: Shape_Leng
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer-defined
- Overview_Description:
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- Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
- This database contains the digitized flight path for the 2004
synoptic survey. For point ID, date, species, zone, number of adults,
number of calves, total number, behavior, notes, and X- and
Y-coordinates see ETS_manatee_ synoptic_survey database.
- Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
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Attributes above are listed on a cover sheet for a each aerial survey.
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Contact_Person:
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
- City: St. Petersburg
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33701-5095
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-823-0166
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: metadata@MyFWC.com
- Resource_Description:
- This metadata documents the digitizing of the flight paths.
The metadata for the ArcGIS database of all manatees sighted during
synoptic surveys from 1991 to 2009 is covered in the
ETS_manatee_synoptic surveys metadata.
- 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-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute produced data
set; 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_Form:
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- Digital_Transfer_Information:
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- Transfer_Size: 0.811
- Fees: none
- Ordering_Instructions: Contact Group Metadata Technician
- Turnaround:
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Approximately ten working days, depending on amount of information requested.
- Standard_Order_Process:
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- Non-digital_Form: paper
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
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- Metadata_Date: 20080116
- Metadata_Review_Date: 20080117
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Contact_Person:
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
- City: St. Petersburg
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33701-5095
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-823-0166
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: metadata@MyFWC.com
- Metadata_Standard_Name:
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FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
- Metadata_Use_Constraints:
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All data must be credited to FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
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- Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
- Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile
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