William R. Jones 2016 vector digital data http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F75Q4T70 Hurricane Sandy directly hit the Atlantic shoreline of New Jersey during several astronomical high tide cycles in late October, 2012. The eastern seaboard areas are subject to sea level rise and increased severity and frequency of storm events, prompting habitat and land use planning changes. Wetland Aquatic Research Center (WARC) has conducted detailed mapping of marine and estuarine wetlands and deepwater habitats, including beaches and tide flats, and upland land use/land cover, using specially-acquired aerial imagery flown at 1-meter resolution.These efforts will assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) continuing endeavors to map the barrier islands adhering to Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) guidelines. Mapped areas consist of selected federal lands including, National Park Service areas, USFWS National Wildlife Refuges, and selected CBRA Units, including barrier islands and marshes in New York and New Jersey. These vital wetland areas are important for migratory waterfowl and neotropical bird habitats, wildlife food chain support and nurseries for shellfish and finfish populations. Coastal wetlands also play an important function as storm surge buffers. This project includes mapping of dominant estuarine wetland plant species useful for wetland functional analysis and wildlife evaluation and management concerns. It also aims to integrate with and offer updated databases pertinent to: USFWS NWR and NWI programs, NOAA tide flats and beaches data, FEMA flood zone data, Natural Heritage Endangered and Threated Species, watershed management, and state and local land use planning. This project serves as a comprehensive and detailed mapping of natural and developed areas in the New York-New Jersey coastal zones,including wetland, deepwater and upland habitats together. Mapping focuses on 1) Hydrologic connectivity, which allows for water flow as well as passages for fish and aquatic sea life; 2) Identifying areas of habitat change due to a catastrophic storm event; 3) Assessing barrier beach damage and provide data to assist in developing mitigation plans; 4) Assess barrier beach and coastal wetland landward migration, which may affect shorebird/turtle environments as nesting sites, 5) Provide marsh species mapping and spatial data on the fragmentation of marsh; 6) document areas of saltwater intrusion; 7) Provide information on the distribution of marsh and other wetland communities (fresh, brackish and saline); 8) Assist with assessing economic impacts (commercial fishing and seafood, recreation); 9) Address data connectivity and utility by varied government and non-profit agencies, planners and partners. The goal of this analysis is to produce a detailed inventory of the barrier beaches, bays and coastal lagoons along the New York and New Jersey Atlantic coastline. Primarily, the barrier beaches, bays, and lagoons associated wetlands support critical aquatic, fish and wildlife habitats and are nurseries for fin- and shellfisheries. This map data will serve as a vital and versatile tool to managers of these resources and concerns, which will be easily integrated with numerous other data bases for quick and accurate planning and assessment. Barrier beaches and their coastal wetland lagoons function critically to mitigate flooding and erosion and buffer storm surges associated with increasingly frequent and severe storms. These storms present a heightened need for natural resource restoration, mitigation and protection; for storm management and emergency operations; and for best practices in natural resource and land use planning. This metadata contains information for the 2013 Photointerpretation of 52 Hurricane Sandy impact areas along the New York (Long Island) and New Jersey coastlines. This project uses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory Classification Scheme to delineate and identify wetlands in these highy effected areas. There are a total of 52 individual project areas located on federal lands (USFWS-NWR, USFWS-CBRA and NPS) that are higlighted for this project. The following are the specific project areas that are related to this metadata: National Park Service: Fire Island National Seashore and Gateway National Recreation Area. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-National Wildlife Refuges: Amagansett, Cape May, Conscience Point, Edwin B. Forsythe, Edwin B. Forsythe-Brigantine Division, Elizabeth A. Morton, Lido Beach, Seatuck and Wertheim. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Coastal Barrier Resource Act New Jersey Project Areas: Sandy Hook, Seidler Beach, Cliffwood Beach, Conaskonk Point, Navesink Shrewsbury, Metedeconk Neck, Metedeconk Neck NJ04BP, Island Beach, Cedar Bonnet Island, Cedar Bonnet Island NJ06P, Brigantine, Corson Inlet, Stone Harbor, Stone Harbor NJ09P, Cape May, Higbee Beach, Dell Haven, Dell Haven NJ12P, Kimbles Beach, Moores Beach and Moores Beach NJ14P. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Coastal Barrier Resource Act New York Project Areas: Northwest Harbor, Hog Creek, Big Reed Pond, Oyster Pond, Montauk Point, Amagansett, Amagansett NY56P, Georgica Wainscott Ponds, Sagaponack Pond, Fire Island, Fire Island NY59P, Jamaica Bay, Sammys Beach, Acabonack Harbor, Gardiners Island, Napeague, Mecox, South Hampton Beach, Tiana 201306 ground condition Complete As needed -74.983661 -71.850313 41.141862 38.922356 ISO 19115 Topic Categories boundaries environment planningCadastre Hurricane Sandy U.S.F.W.S., Coastal Barrier Resources Act U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region U.S. National Park Service USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:5798c169e4b0589fa1c7286f It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from the distributor described above or from another USGS Biological Resources Division server and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. The distributor makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes. Acknowledgement of the U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland Aquatic Research Center as a data source would be appreciated in 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. Sharing new data layers developed directly from these data would also be appreciated by WARC staff. 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. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in this metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. William R. Jones Geographer physical

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Lafayette LA 70506 US 337-266-8581 jonesb@usgs.gov USGS/Wetland Aquatic Reserach Center, Lafayete, LA and Gainsville,FL Offices. The WARC would like to acknowledge the assistance of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.2.3552 Data are inherently polygonal and linear. ArcGIS software is used to create and maintain topological relationships between features. Polygonal features begin and end at the same point, contain no overshoots or undershoots, and contain a single label. Linear features are continuous where appropriate, i.e., dangling arcs are removed if they are not required. For the cartographic process (photointerpretation), habitats were identified and mapped in accordance with nationally accepted mapping standards and conventions. For the digital conversion process, conventions and standard check list methodologies in place for the time period were followed. All habitat photointerpretation adheres to protocols and standards used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife's National Wetland Inventory (NWI) Program. The NWI habitat data classified are outlined in the;Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States (https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Documents/Classification-of-Wetlands-and-Deepwater-Habitats-of-the-United-States.pdf)and (http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Documents/NWI_Wetlands_and_Deepwater_Map_Code_Diagram.pdf); (Cowardin and other 1979, FWS/OBS – 79/31). Uplands are derived from a land use and land cover classification system for use with remote sensor data (Anderson, J.R., Hardy, E.E., Roach J.T., and Witmer R.E., 1976, A land use and land cover classification system for use with remote sensor data: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 964, 28 p.). Depending on project objectives, when mapping broad categories of data, some detail can be lost due to overall project goals. All upland categories, whether vegetated or unvegetated will be classified as Upland. Detailed habitat mapping was made possible using 1-meter pixel resolution, 3 Band (RGB-IR) stereo and orthoimages covering the project area footprints. Imagery was acquired by National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) June-November 2013. The digital mosaic of the high resolution color infrared aerial photography project area is brought into ArcMap Software where photointerpretation begins. Habitat types specific to this project were delineated by overlaying project area boundaries onto the imagery and delineating features. Ancillary data sets with similar resolutions, were utilized to help classify areas that may be difficult to identify. Imagery of the project area is also viewed on screen in stereo which helps determine vegetation height and proper habitat classification. Where available, LIDAR data is utilized for elevation information that help discern habitats from one another especially where floating aquatics may be present. Once the photointerpreter completes their initial interpretation of the project area, the photointerpreter will perfor a quality assurance review of their own work msking corrections or improving their initial interpretation work. After the quality assurance review is complete, the lead photointerpreter will perform the final quality control review. In this review, linework is checked, database is checked for missing labels or inappropriate labels, topology and acreage tables are checked using a USFWS database tool. 2015 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 490 NAD 1983 UTM Zone 16N 0.9996 -87.0 0.0 500000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase mailing and physical

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Lafayette LA 70506 US 337-266-8581 jonesb@usgs.gov FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 Acknowledgement of the U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland Aquatic Research Center (Lafayette , LA and Gainsville, FL Offices)as a data source would be appreciated in 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. Sharing new data layers developed directly from these data would also be appreciated by WARC staff. 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. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in this metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.