Item Identification

Title:	Coastal Wetlands
Short Name:	CoastalWetlands
Status:	Completed
Publication Date:	2017-12-14
Abstract:	This data set represents the extent, approximate location and type of estuarine and marine wetland habitats in the United States and its Territories. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and surface waters as defined by the National Wetland Inventory (NWI) and includes the equivalent Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) units. Certain wetland habitats are excluded from the NWI program because of the limitations of aerial imagery as the primary data source used to detect wetlands. This data set is neither designed nor intended to represent legal or regulatory products. For wetland information visit www.fws.gov/wetlands/.
Purpose:	To support coastal and ocean planning and other activities pursuant to the Energy Policy Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Rivers and Harbors Act and the Submerged Lands Act.
Supplemental Information:	The native coordinate system for this layer is Geographic Coordinate System North American 1983 (NAD 83). GCS_North_American_1983 WKID: 4269 Authority: EPSG Angular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433) Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0) Datum: D_North_American_1983 Spheroid: GRS_1980 Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0 Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356 Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101 Please note: all MarineCadastre.gov data served by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management and hosted through Esri REST services are in the Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (Geographic Coordinate System WGS 1984) projection.

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus

Keyword

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords

Earth Science > Biosphere > Ecosystems > Aquatic Ecosystems > Wetlands > Estuarine Wetlands

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords

Earth Science > Biosphere > Ecosystems > Aquatic Ecosystems > Wetlands > Marine

ISO 19115 Topic Category

oceans

None

aquatic bed

None

CMECS

None

DOI

None

emergent

None

estuarine

None

forested

None

habitat

None

marine

None

reef

None

rocky shore

None

scrub-shrub

None

streambed

None

unconsolidated shore

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus

Keyword

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords

Continent > North America > United States Of America

None

East Coast

None

Gulf of Mexico

None

National

None

U.S. territories

None

United States

None

West Coast

Physical Location

Organization:	Office for Coastal Management
City:	Charleston
State/Province:	SC

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code:	Data Set
Maintenance Frequency:	As Needed
Data Presentation Form:	Map (digital)
Distribution Liability:	NOAA makes no warranties or representations whatsoever regarding the availability, quality, accuracy, content, completeness or suitability for the user's needs of such information. The services, information, and data made available on the Marine Cadastre web site are provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. These data are intended for coastal and ocean use planning. Not for navigation. http://www.marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 706207

Date Effective From:	2017-12-14
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization):	NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address:	2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address:	coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone:	(843) 740-1202
URL:	https://coast.noaa.gov
Contact Instructions:	coastal.info@noaa.gov

Distributor

CC ID: 698202

Date Effective From:	2017-11-29
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization):	NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address:	2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address:	coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone:	(843) 740-1202
URL:	https://coast.noaa.gov

Distributor

CC ID: 698203

Date Effective From:	2017-11-29
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization):	Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
Address:	2234 South Hobson Avenue Charleston, SC 29405-2413
URL:	https://www.coast.noaa.gov/

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 698200

Date Effective From:	2017-11-29
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization):	NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address:	2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address:	coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone:	(843) 740-1202
URL:	https://coast.noaa.gov

Originator

CC ID: 698204

Date Effective From:	2017-11-29
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization):	Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
Address:	2234 South Hobson Avenue Charleston, SC 29405-2413
URL:	https://www.coast.noaa.gov/

Point of Contact

CC ID: 698201

Date Effective From:	2017-11-29
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization):	NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address:	2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address:	coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone:	(843) 740-1202
URL:	https://coast.noaa.gov

Extents

Currentness Reference:	Publication Date

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 698199

W° Bound:	-170.847065
E° Bound:	145.830768
N° Bound:	71.390922
S° Bound:	-14.373719

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 698198

Time Frame Type:	Discrete
Start:	2017-12

Spatial Information

Spatial Representation

Representations Used

Vector:	Yes

Access Information

Security Class:	Unclassified
Data Access Procedure:	zip download and REST map service
Data Access Constraints:	None
Data Use Constraints:	These data are intended for coastal and ocean use planning. Not for navigation. https://marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 698207

Download URL:	ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/CoastalWetlands.zip
Distributor:	NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM) (2017-11-29 - Present)
File Name:	CoastalWetlands
Description:	File geodatabase feature class with layer file and metadata.
File Type:	Arc Geodatabase
Compression:	Zip

Distribution 2

CC ID: 698209

Download URL:	https://coast.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/MarineCadastre/CoastalWetlands/MapServer
Distributor:	NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM) (2017-11-29 - Present)
File Name:	CoastalWetlands
Description:	Esri REST tile cached map service for layer in web mercator projection.
File Type:	REST Service

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 698210

URL:	https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
URL Type:	Online Resource

URL 2

CC ID: 698212

URL:	https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
URL Type:	Online Resource

Data Quality

Accuracy:	The attributes in this dataset are believed to be accurate.
Completeness Report:	Spatial and attribute properties are believed to be complete, although attribute information has been simplified. Geometric thresholds from original data are preserved. No tests have been completed for exhaustiveness.
Conceptual Consistency:	These data are believed to be logically consistent. Geometry is topologically clean.

Lineage

Sources

Wetlands

CC ID: 698215

Contact Name:	US Fish and Wildlife Service
Publish Date:	2017-07-01
Extent Type:	Discrete
Extent Start Date/Time:	2017-07
Citation URL:	https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 698216

Description:

Go to https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Data/State-Downloads.html and download all geodatabase zip files

Unzip files and in each geodatabase, add the _Wetlands feature class to ArcMap

For each, Select by Attributes where WETLAND_TYPE = Estuarine and Marine Wetland and export into a new feature class

Merge the exported feature classes into a single feature class

Union the single feature class and Intersect to find overlapping features

Delete/Merge any overlapping features based on state and ATTRIBUTE

Crosswalk CMECS info into attribute field using table found at https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/documents/NWI_Wetlands_and_Deepwater_Map_Code_Diagram.pdf

Delete all superfluous fields

Check geometry and project data into WGS 1984 Auxiliary Sphere

Process Date/Time:

2017-10-01 00:00:00

Child Items

Rubric scores updated every 15m

Type

Title

Entity (ENT)

Coastal Wetlands

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID:	50447
Metadata Record Created By:	Anna Verrill
Metadata Record Created:	2017-11-29 15:26+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By:	SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified:	2019-07-02 15:17+0000
Metadata Record Published:	2017-12-07
Owner Org:	OCM
Metadata Publication Status:	Published Externally
Do Not Publish?:	N
Metadata Next Review Date:	2018-12-08