FLORIDA BLACK BEAR NUISANCE REPORTS 1980 - 2013

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Spatial_Reference_Information
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Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Publication_Date: 2014

Title: FLORIDA BLACK BEAR NUISANCE REPORTS 1980 - 2013

Edition: shapefile name: Bear_Calls_1980-2013.shp

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL
Publisher:: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Other_Citation_Details: State of Florida

Online_Linkage:

<http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm>

Description:

Abstract:: This shapefile contains the locations of calls from the public regarding human-black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) interactions in the state of Florida. This dataset includes only those reports that are associated with concurrent bear observations in the general vicinity of the caller. The data also were limited to those records obtained from the black bear database maintained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and that were associated with a geographic coordinate. This is an update to the FGDL layer BEARNUISANCE_2012.
Purpose:: These data are available for all people interested in the locations of human-black bear interactions in the state of Florida.
Supplemental_Information:: Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19800101
Ending_Date: 20131231

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.429040
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.872251
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.983191
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.492815

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE
Theme_Keyword: wildlife
Theme_Keyword: nuisance
Theme_Keyword: bear
Theme_Keyword: uplands

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE
Theme_Keyword: biology
Theme_Keyword: mapping
Theme_Keyword: GIS
Theme_Keyword: census

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: biota

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GNIS
Place_Keyword: Florida

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword: 2013

Access_Constraints:

Available without restriction. All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes.

Use_Constraints:

Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation.
Users are encouraged to read and fully comprehend the metadata record prior to using these data.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Contact_Person: GIS Librarian

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 620 S. Meridian St 5B6
City: Tallahassee
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 32399
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 850-488-0588

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 850-410-5269

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISRequests@MyFWC.com

Data_Set_Credit: Sarah Barrett, FWC

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: FWRI-DC
Security_Handling_Description: Available without restriction

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Other_Citation_Details:: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Terrestrial Resources GIS Data <http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm>
FFWCC Florida Black Bear Management: <http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/bear/>

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:: GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values

Completeness_Report:

Visually inspected for completeness to ensure all values fell within specified ranges.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:: All positions recorded from an address location and converted to Latitude and Longitude; errors vary depending upon precision and accuracy of geocoding service.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:: This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Florida Department of Revenue
Publication_Date: 20120101
Title: Digital Orthographic Quarter Quadrangles
Edition: Scale 7920
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Other_Citation_Details:: This dataset consists of the best available DOQs for the state of Florida. Counties are flown at 3 year intervals. For the most part these DOQs are 1 foot resolution, in some counties they are 6 inch.

Source_Scale_Denominator: Varies

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20080101
Ending_Date: 2014

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FFWCC - FWRI

Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: FWC Black Bear Management Program
Publication_Date: Unpublished material
Title: bear_calls_1980-2013
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data

Type_of_Source_Media:

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19800101
Ending_Date: 20131231

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: bear data

Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information

Process_Step:

Process_Description:: We imported the completed nuisance dataset into ArcGIS (version 10.x, ESRI, Redlands, California) as a shapefile. Then, we assigned North American Datum 1983 HARN as the datum with a Modified Albers projection. In part to evaluate the positional and attribute accuracy of the data, we overlaid the points onto both county and state layers.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FFWCC - FWRI
Process_Date: 2014

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Dataset Preparation: Using the Query tool, we extracted nuisance records, 1980-2013, from a Microsoft Access database maintained by FWC's Black Bear Management Program. The dataset was visually inspected for attribute errors by college interns with the Program.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FFWCC - FWRI

Process_Date: 2014

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: FWC
Contact_Person: Program Coordinator

Contact_Position: Black Bear Management Program Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 620 S. Meridian St.
City: Tallahassee
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 32399-1600

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 850-922-4330

Process_Step:

Process_Description:: GeoPlan downloaded the data on February 23rd, 2015 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute TRGIS website: <http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm>
Black_Bear_nuisance_reports_pnt.zip Black_Bear_nuisance_reports_pnt.shp
The data was originally projected to: PCS_Albers GCS_North_American_1983
During the QA/QC process, GeoPlan performed the following tasks:
- Reprojected the dataset to FGDL Albers using the following transformation: NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida - Upcased all fields. - Added a DESCRIPT field based on the field [NatureofRe]. - Added FGDLAQDATE based on the date FGDL acquired the data. - Renamed the dataset to bearnuisance_2013.shp
Please Note: Previous TRGIS data layers were misidentified in the metadata as being in Albers HARN. FFWCC-FWRI said all TRGIS data is PCS Albers (Not HARN). The data now has a HARN transformation and so all of the data is shifted now (<1m) from the previous FGDL version.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GeoPlan
Process_Date: 20150223

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 34179

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area

Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:

Standard_Parallel: 24.000000
Standard_Parallel: 31.500000
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -84.000000
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 24.000000
False_Easting: 400000.000000
False_Northing: 0.000000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.002048
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.002048

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_North_American_1983_HARN
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Altitude_System_Definition:

Altitude_Resolution: 1.000000
Altitude_Encoding_Method:: Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: BEARNUISANCE_2013
Entity_Type_Definition: BEARNUISANCE_2013.DBF
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: FFWCC - FWRI

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI