United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory Region 5 Unpublished Material vector digital data http://www.ct.gov/deep Field Verification of Eelgrass beds, located in the Long Island Sound, Eastern shore of Connecticut from Clinton Harbor to the Rhode Island State border, Fishers Island NYS and Eastern portion of the Northshore of Long Island NYS. Verification of eelgrass located in the Eastern Long Island Sound and tributaries. Visual confirmation using underwater video where eelgrass was not visible by the naked eye. Use of photo interpreted 1:20,000 true color aerial photography was used to locate submerged aquatic vegetation prior to field work. 9/29/02 10/28/02 10/22/02 9/18/02 10/18/02 10/15/02 10/10/02 10/08/02 10/04/02 10/04/02 10/03/02 ground condition Complete to date Unknown -72.550140 -71.887851 41.364791 41.017052 submerged vegetation eelgrass SAV U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Connecticut CT U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. United States of America USA none Intended as supplemental information to delineated polygonal data by the USFWS Region 5 NWI Ralph Tiner USFWS NWI Regional Coordinator 413-253-8620 ralph_tiner@fws.gov United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Region 5 National Wetlands Inventory These data are maintained by the State of Connecticut using ArcGIS software developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in a Microsoft Windows operating system environment. Point data accuaracy based in visual field interpretation. Based on visual confirmation of eelgrass beds, Actual sites were based on aerial interpretation of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation SAV from True Color 1:20,000 aerial photography. Complete Base on GPS coordinates NA Transfer of X,Y GPS coordinates into a GIS spatial database. Attribute information was transfered manually. Metadata imported. c:\temp\xml1E.tmp Metadata imported. c:\temp\xmlF.tmp Dataset copied. K:\d_ct\d_eel_grass\fieldpoint04-03 Dataset copied. D:\gis_projects\eelgrass\2002\fieldpoints Dataset copied. D:\gis_projects\CoastalResourcesGISData\fieldpoints none Vector Entity point 246 Lambert Conformal ConicLambert Conformal Conic41.20000041.866667-72.75000040.833333999999.999996499999.999998 coordinate pair 0.000250 0.000250 survey feet North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 1.000000 Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates Connecticut Eelgrass Beds 2002 Field Data OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. SITE_NO Site number given to field verification location DATE_VERIF Date of field verification HIGH_TIDE Time of high tide on the day of field work TIDE_HEIGHT Actual high tide height on day of field work MAP_NAME Quad Name field point is located in ESTUARY_BAY Approximate esturary field point is located in TIME WATER_DEPTH Depth of water at time of field verification EEL_GRASS Eelgrass present or not present ESRI Coordinates defining the features. SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. EST_COVER Estimated cover H- high, M - medium, L - low Connecticut Eelgrass Beds 2002 Field Data Shapefile, Feature Class ArcGIS Zip http://www.ct.gov/deep 20120119 USFWS, National Wetlands Inventory Region 5 Staff mailing address

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