National Wetlands Inventory
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For the past three years, the Center for Geographic Studies and the Geography Department have been working with the National Wetlands Inventory to update and inventory wetlands throughout southern California. Working with Dr. Shawna Dark, graduate students and faculty have developed highly specialized expertise in National Wetland Inventory mapping procedures. This expertise will be important as the state of California continues its long range plan to inventory wetlands.
We have mapped wetlands throughout coastal southern California and are presently mapping the San Gabriel River Watershed. As the process of mapping wetlands continues, our goal is to utilize customized GIS applications to create a standardized approach to mapping wetlands. Wetlands mapping is highly subjective in many senses. However, new technology such as, the use of ArcScene to view landscapes in three-dimensional space and the use of digital terrain models can reduce this subjectivity while improving the overall scale at which maps are created. As we continue to improve and standardized our mapping techniques, we hope to produce wetland maps that will facilitate resource management, watershed planning, endangered species modeling and other related needs of educational institutions as well as local and regional resource agencies.
Our working partners are the National Wetlands Inventory, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, and the San Francisco Estuary Institute.
Downloads
SGR Watershed Final Geodatabase
Posted: September 21, 2007.SGR Watershed Final Report (.pdf)
Posted: January 9, 2008.* right click on the links above and select the "save target as" option to download the files.