Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Boundary

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• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Publication_Date: 2001

Title: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Boundary

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL

Publisher: FWC, FWRI

Online_Linkage: <http://research.myfwc.com/>

Description:

Abstract:

These GIS data represent the boundary of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) in polygon format. These data were generated from latitude and longitude coordinates in degrees, minutes, and seconds as given in the Federal Register. The first version of this data set was created at FWRI in 1998. The current version includes the January 2001 changes, including the Tortugas Ecological Reserve North and South areas as part of the FKNMS, in the boundary description. This version of the file does not include the shoreline.
Because the FKNMS shares boundaries with other existing managed areas, every effort was made to use the most precise coordinates available for these boundaries. However, due to precision differences in the definitions, these shared boundaries may appear different in GIS layers that were created based on definitions of the other managed areas. This edition was created using the most precise coordinates available.
The following sources were used to make these data: 1) boundary of FKNMS, Federal Register 2) boundary of Everglades National Park, National Park Service (based on 1:24k USGS Quads) 3) boundary of Biscayne Bay National Park, National Park Service (based on 1:24k USGS Quads).

Purpose:

These data were created to represent the boundary of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Supplemental_Information:

Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information.
NOTE: These data, depending on scale, may not match up with other boundary data sets in the region of the FKNMS. Each managed area's bounding point locations are not necessarily defined at the same precision.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2001

Time_of_Day: unknown

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.151882

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.063692

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.698725

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.246533

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRItheme

Theme_Keyword: boundaries

Theme_Keyword: GIS

Theme_Keyword: marine

Theme_Keyword: shoreline

Theme_Keyword: mapping

Theme_Keyword: managed areas

Theme_Keyword: bounds

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: boundaries

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRIplace

Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean

Place_Keyword: Biscayne Bay

Place_Keyword: Dry Tortugas National Park

Place_Keyword: Everglades National Park

Place_Keyword: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Place_Keyword: Florida Bay

Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico

Place_Keyword: Florida Straits

Place_Keyword: Florida Keys

Place_Keyword: Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge

Place_Keyword: National Key Deer Wildlife Refuge

Place_Keyword: Florida

Place_Keyword: Dry Tortugas

Place_Keyword: Biscayne National Park

Place_Keyword: south Florida

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Florida Counties

Place_Keyword: Monroe

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Water Management Districts

Place_Keyword: South Florida Water Management District

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWC Region

Place_Keyword: FWC Region-South

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Florida Waterbodies

Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico

Place_Keyword: Florida Bay

Access_Constraints:

Available without restriction. All data must be verified by Principal 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:

FWC-FWRI must be credited.
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. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: FWRI-DC

Security_Classification: Available without restriction

Security_Handling_Description: Available without restriction

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.2 (Build 3790) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

All entities and attributes have been identified and documented.

Logical_Consistency_Report: unknown

Completeness_Report: unknown

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Positional accuracy is accurate to the precision of the source coordinates.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Federal Register

Publication_Date: 20010117

Publication_Time: Unknown

Title: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Regulations; Final Rule

Edition: 15 CFR Part 922

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: latitude and longitude coordinates

Other_Citation_Details:

Prior version of rule dated June 12, 1997 does not include Tortugas Ecological Reserve.

Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20010117

Time_of_Day: unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Federal Register

Source_Contribution:

The Federal Register provided latitude and longitude coordinates used to generate boundary.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Center for Spatial Analysis

Publication_Date: Unknown

Publication_Time: Unknown

Title: camra_mrgis_fl_40k_H

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, Florida

Publisher: FWC, FWRI

Source_Scale_Denominator: 40000

Type_of_Source_Media: NOAA Nautical Charts, USGS Quads

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: Unknown

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: fl_40

Source_Contribution:

This data set contributed the shoreline for the Florida Keys. While the "FMRI.fl_40k_poly_H" source data was digitized from both NOAA Nautical Charts and USGS Quads, the shoreline of the Florida Keys used herein was digitized solely from NOAA Nautical Charts.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Latitude and longitude coordinates for the FKNMS boundary were obtained from the Federal Register. The points were then used to generate a boundary. Not all coordinates were explicitly given in the Federal Register. The description states that the FKNMS boundary "follows the boundary of Everglades National Park" along the portion of the Boundary that is shared with ENP. There is a similar statement for the boundary that is shared with Biscayne National Park. Therefore, boundaries for Everglades and Biscayne National Parks were extracted from existing data sets from the National Parks Service ftp site. The bounding coordinates for the Dry Tortugas National Park were obtained from the park map. The new boundaries replaced those used in the 1998 generation of the boundary.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Federal Register

Process_Date: 2001

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Person: Anderson, Chris

Contact_Position: Marine Research Associate

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The boundary of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve South was added after FWRI learned that it was part of the 2001 sanctuary expansion.

Process_Date: 2002

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Person: Anderson, Chris

Contact_Position: Marine Research Associate

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

A version of this file, minus the shoreline, was loaded into ArcSDE.

Process_Date: 20081204

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Metadata imported.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:

G:\Groups\GIS\gis_data_mgt_team\forSDE\fknms_noland\fknms_2001_noland_poly.shp.xml

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Dataset copied.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:

Server=Gleason; Service=5153; User=fmri; Version=KNUDSEN_R.RyanEdits

Process_Date: 20100928

Process_Time: 12363800

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: NAD 1983 2011 Florida GDL Albers

Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:

Standard_Parallel: 24.0

Standard_Parallel: 31.5

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -84.0

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 24.0

False_Easting: 400000.0

False_Northing: 0.0

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.0001

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.0001

Planar_Distance_Units: meter

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D NAD 1983 2011

Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: GIS.FWC.fknms_2001_noland_poly

Entity_Type_Definition:

Polygons representing the boundaries for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Dry Tortugas National Park.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: A_CODE

Attribute_Definition: Acronym of Managed area name can be DTNP, FKNMS, or blank.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Acronym of Managed area name can be DTNP, FKNMS, or blank.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FKNMS

Attribute_Definition:

Indicates whether a polygon is part of the FKNMS. Values can be Y(es) or N(o).

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: Yes

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Yes

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: No

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal ID used by SDE.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Internal ID used by SDE.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE.area

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE.len

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The attributes of these data show a description of the name of the area, whether the area is land or water, and whether or not the area is part of the FKNMS.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

The attributes of these data show a description of the name of the area, whether the area is land or water, and whether or not the area is part of the FKNMS.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

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-FWRI 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.

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20100928

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: No restrictions on metadata.

Metadata_Use_Constraints: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

Metadata_Security_Information:

Metadata_Security_Classification_System: FWRI-MC

Metadata_Security_Classification: Available

Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.