Gulf Sturgeon Critical Habitat Units 8 to 14 Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: National Coastal Data Development Center
Publication_Date: Unpublished material
Title:: Gulf Sturgeon Critical Habitat Units 8 to 14 Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Online_Linkage: <http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/data/critical.htm>

Description:

Abstract:: These data represent the critical habitat for Gulf Sturgeon as designated by Federal Register Vol. 68, No. 53, Wednesday, March 19, 2003, Rules and Regulations.
Purpose:: The purpose of these data is to visually represent the critical habitat areas for GIS analysis and display.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20031224
Time_of_Day: 1000

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.181045
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.035383
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.618064
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 28.935286

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Gulf Sturgeon
Theme_Keyword: Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi
Theme_Keyword: Critical Habitat
Theme_Keyword: Endangered Species
Theme_Keyword: GIS

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico
Place_Keyword: Louisiana
Place_Keyword: Mississippi
Place_Keyword: Alabama
Place_Keyword: Florida
Place_Keyword: Lake Pontchartrain
Place_Keyword: Lake Borgne
Place_Keyword: Mississippi Sound
Place_Keyword: Pensacola Bay
Place_Keyword: Santa Rosa Sound
Place_Keyword: Near shore Gulf of Mexico
Place_Keyword: Choctawhatchee Bay
Place_Keyword: Apalachicola Bay
Place_Keyword: Suwannee Sound

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

Users be advised that the accuracy of this data set is completely dependent upon the accuracy of the shoreline data used in the creation process. Also be advised that the Colreg Demarcation lines used in the delineation of boundaries are the best estimate possible given the available source data. For more details on this process, see the process description.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC)
Contact_Person: Chris Henton

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst/Metadata Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
City: Stennis Space Center
State_or_Province: MS
Postal_Code: 39529
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 228-688-2354

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 228-688-2968

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: chris.henton@noaa.gov

Hours_of_Service: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Contact_Instructions:

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report: Not Applicable

Completeness_Report: Complete Pending NMFS PRD Review

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The base shoreline data set used in this process was the Coastal Assessment Framework shapefile from NOAA/NOS/SPO. Additional reference data sets included Mr SID CIR Imagery of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway from www.atlas.lsu.edu, TIGER Line shapefiles of roads in Louisiana and Florida from www.geographynetwork.com and road and railroad shapefiles in Mississippi from MARIS. Maptech's Digital Chart Kit, Regions 8 and 17 featuring NOAA Digital Charts and a text description of the 72 COLREGS Demarcation lines from www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/regulations/33CFR080/33CFR80_GCD08.htm were also used. These additional layers were used to designate boundaries on individual units as dictated by the critical habitat designations described in the Federal Register Document. Inland units were created by digitizing a polygon slightly larger than the water body it represented. The new polygons were then "edit clipped" to the shoreline to exactly match the shoreline. In areas where the entire water body was not included, the boundaries were drawn following the feature described in Federal Register document. (Ex. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was digitized from the Mr SID's and used as the western boundary of the polygon. Bays with adjacent rivers or bayous that were excluded had their boundaries created by drawing a straight line across the river's mouth as dictated by the Document.) Every effort was made to exclude features at locations consistent with the descriptions in the Document. Near shore units were created by creating a 1 nautical mile buffer of the coastline (9nm in the case of the Suwannee Sound) or barrier island as indicated by the Document. The seaward side of these buffers was used as the southern boundary of the units. For the passes between islands, line segments were digitized to represent the 72 COLREGS Demarcation lines and 1 nautical mile buffers were created from those lines. Those buffers were merged with the buffers of the islands to complete the southern boundaries of the units. Every effort was made to accurately follow the descriptions of the 72 COLREGS lines. Whenever coordinates were used in the description, those coordinates were used in the creation of the buffers. When no coordinates were given, the lines/buffers were created by following the descriptions in the text. The Maptech software was used primarily as a guide to locate areas by name. The digital charts were also useful for accuracy evaluation in placement of the 72 COLREGS lines, as they were visible on the charts and could be compared to the lines digitized from text descriptions.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of the Interior and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce - Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon, [Docket No.; I.D> 020522156-3051-02]

Process_Date: 20031223

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC)
Contact_Person: Chris Henton

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst/Metadata Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
City: Stennis Space Center
State_or_Province: MS
Postal_Code: 39529
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 228-688-2354

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 228-688-2968

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: chris.henton@noaa.gov

Hours_of_Service: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Contact_Instructions:

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.gulf_sturgeon_chab_u8to14_poly

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Metadata

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI