FFWCC BLACK BEAR ROADKILLS IN FLORIDA 1976-2009

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Publication_Date: 2009

Title: FFWCC BLACK BEAR ROADKILLS IN FLORIDA 1976-2009

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL

Publisher: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Other_Citation_Details: State of Florida

Online_Linkage: <http://research.myfwc.com/>

Description:

Abstract:

This dataset contains the locations of Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) roadkills within the state of Florida, maintained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). In this shapefile, we used only those records maintained by the FWC from which we could obtain a geographic coordinate.

Purpose:

These data display the locations and the associated attributes of black bear roadkills in the state of Florida, from 1976 to 2009.

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: 1976

Beginning_Time: unknown

Ending_Date: 2009

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: biology

Theme_Keyword: census

Theme_Keyword: GIS

Theme_Keyword: mapping

Theme_Keyword: mortality

Theme_Keyword: transportation

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE

Theme_Keyword: uplands

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: biota

Theme_Keyword: transportation

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE

Theme_Keyword: bear

Theme_Keyword: GIS

Theme_Keyword: mortality

Theme_Keyword: roadkill

Theme_Keyword: wildlife

Theme_Keyword: nuisance

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWC Place

Place_Keyword: Florida

Place_Keyword: statewide

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.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

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

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Data_Set_Credit: Brian Beneke, FWC

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: FWRI-DC

Security_Classification: Available without restriction

Security_Handling_Description: Available without restriction

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Other_Citation_Details:

FFWCC Bear Research: <http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/Bear_research.htm>

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:

The GIS analyst overlaid the remaining point locations onto current roads, counties, and imagery layers. Some locations were not aligned with roads; these were removed from the dataset pending closer examination. All positions recorded from a GPS unit; errors vary depending upon precision and accuracy of each unit.

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: FWC Black Bear Management Program

Publication_Date: Unpublished Material

Title: bear_roadkill_1976-2009

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data

Source_Scale_Denominator: Varies

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1976

Ending_Date: 2009

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FFWCC

Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Dataset Preparation: Using the Query tool, we extracted roadkill records, 1976-2009, 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: bear data

Process_Date: 2010

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Program Coordinator

Contact_Organization: FWC

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:

We imported the completed roadkill dataset into ArcGIS (version 9.3, ESRI, Redlands, California) as a shapefile. Then, we assigned North American Datum 1983 as the datum for the latitude/longitude geographic coordinates. In part to evaluate the positional and attribute accuracy of the data, we overlaid the points onto both county and roads layers. Data that was not readily associated with a road was further examined by overlaying the data on top of 2006-2008 DOQQs. This step allowed us to search for unrecorded roads. When a location could not be visually confirmed, the record was eliminated. Some of the records were further eliminated for positional inaccuracies.

Process_Date: 2009

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

GeoPlan received the data in September 2010 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission via CD-ROM. The data was projected in the World Geodetic System (WGS) of 1984. - Reprojected to FGDL Albers HPGN Projection. - Renamed the dataset from Bear_roadkill_1976-2009 to bearrdkill_2009. - Upcased all fields. - Shorten table field lengths. - Added a DESCRIPT field based on SPECIFLOC. If SPECIFLOC was not available, LOCALE was used. - Added FGDLAQDATE based on date FGDL acquired the data.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GeoPlan

Process_Date: 20101004

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: 1983

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: BEARRDKILL_2009

Entity_Type_Definition: BEARRDKILL_2009.DBF

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: FFWCC Bear Management Program

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ID

Attribute_Definition: Unique database identification number (key)

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: TYPE

Attribute_Definition: Type = "CARCASS" for all records

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: RECORDER

Attribute_Definition: FWC employee recording the incident, if known

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: REGION

Attribute_Definition:

Political boundary: 1 of 5 geographic regions in FLFWC Region = Central, NE, NW, S, SW regions

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ADDRESS

Attribute_Definition: Address

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CITY

Attribute_Definition: City

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COUNTY

Attribute_Definition: Political boundary: county in which mortality occurred

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COMMUNITY_

Attribute_Definition: Undefined by source

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DATEKILL

Attribute_Definition: Date (m/d/yyyy) of incident

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LATITUDE

Attribute_Definition: Geographic "y" location in decimal degrees

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE

Attribute_Definition: Geographic "x" location in decimal degrees

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SPECIFLOC

Attribute_Definition: Extended comment about specific location of roadkill

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DEATHCAUSE

Attribute_Definition: cause of death = "roadkill"

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SEX

Attribute_Definition: sex of carcass, if determined

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AGECLASS

Attribute_Definition: general age group

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: age class

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: cub/juvenile/adult

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: WEIGHT

Attribute_Definition: weight of carcass, if determined

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: WEIGHTEST

Attribute_Definition: Precision of Weight

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BSAGE

Attribute_Definition: estimated age, bsAge=0 if not measured

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BSAGEMETH

Attribute_Definition: Method of age estimation, if taken

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: Estimation Method

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: cemm annuli (cemmentum annuli) / estimate / [no data] / unknown

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BG_POSTAL

Attribute_Definition: Undefined by source

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LOCALE

Attribute_Definition: Location of roadkill

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NOTES

Attribute_Definition: Any notes or comments that further define incident

Attribute_Definition_Source: FFWCC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT

Attribute_Definition: Based on SpecifLoc. If SpecifLoc not available, Local is used.

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FGDLAQDATE

Attribute_Definition: FGDL added field based on date acquired from source

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AUTOID

Attribute_Definition: Unique ID added by GeoPlan

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL)

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: 431 Architecture PO Box 115706

City: Gainesville

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 32611-5706

Country: United States

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20101101

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: No restrictions on metadata

Metadata_Use_Constraints: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

Metadata_Security_Information:

Metadata_Security_Classification_System: FWRI-MC

Metadata_Security_Classification: Available

Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

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