United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory Region 5 March 2003 Connecticut Eelgrass Beds 2002 Poly vector digital data http://www.ct.gov/deep Interpretation and identification of Eelgrass beds located in the Long Island Sound Eastern Connecticut shoreline, Fishers Island NYS and the Northshore of Long Island NYS. Generated from 1:20,000 True Color Aerial Photography, 6/18/02. Delineate eelgrass located in the Eastern Long Island Sound and tributaries. 6/18/02 ground condition Complete Unknown -72.476148 -71.874189 41.380502 41.248532 submerged vegetation eelgrass 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 none Ralph Tiner USFWS NWI Regional Coordinator 413-253-8620 http://www.cteco.uconn.edu/metadata/dep/browsegraphic/eelgrassbed2002fullview.gif Full view of 2002 eelgrass beds. GIF http://www.cteco.uconn.edu/metadata/dep/browsegraphic/eelgrassbed2002detailview.gif Detail view of 2002 eelgrass beds. gif 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. Based on field work and photo interpretation of 1:20,000 true color photography Based on 1:20,000 aerial photography Complete, based on field work and interpretation Based on 1:12,000 Connecticut DOQQ's and the positioning of 1:20,000 true color aerial photography using the Digital Transfer Scope (DTS) NA DOQQ 1:12,000 & 1:20,000True Color aerial transparency Digital imagery and hard copy transparency Use of Digital Transfer Scope to create data layer from aerial photo. Geo-reference based on State of CT DOQQ's. Metadata imported. c:\temp\xml1E.tmp Dataset copied. K:\d_ct\ct_eel_12 Dataset copied. D:\gis_projects\eelgrass\2002\ct_eelgrass Dataset copied. D:\gis_projects\CoastalResourcesGISData\ct_eelgrass none Vector G-polygon 161 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 Poly OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. ACRES Area of polygon in arces FIELD_CHECKED Polygon field checked - Y = yes, N = no SITE_NO Site number of polygon DENSITY Estimated density of eelgrass - H = high, M = medium, L = low SIGNATURE Interpretation signature of True Color 1:20,000 photo EELGRASS Eelgrass present - Y= yes, N = No WATERSHED Assigned sub-watershed number HECTARES Area in Hectares ESRI Coordinates defining the features. SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. LOCATION Sub-watershed in proximity to polygon SHAPE.area SHAPE.len Connecticut Eelgrass Beds 2002 Poly Shapefile, Feature Class ArcGIS Zip 0.079 http://www.ct.gov/deep 20120119 USFWS, National Wetlands Inventory Region 5 Staff mailing and physical address
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