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Directory of Web Mapping Providers
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- Written by charlie
- Category: GIS & Mapping
Check out the directory of 107,000+ Spatial Web services, at https://directory.spatineo.com/ - with 25 pages specific to wetlands data! It also offers a webpage for each service pulled from the getcapabilities metadata in addition to uptime and downtime statistics for the past year.
NOAA Nautical Raster Maps and Grass GIS
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- Written by charlie
- Category: GIS & Mapping
After having some difficulty loading raster NOAA Nautical Charts into Grass Gis, I came across this page Converting NOAA raster charts to GeoTIFF for TileMill
I was not able to load the .KSP files for the NOAA rastermap (#12363- Long island Sound) into Grass GIS, with r.in.gldal despite its ability to handle .KSP files, but converting the files to GeoTIFFs first and then reprojecting worked perfectly. Determining the ESPG number was not readily apparent- as a workaround- I loaded the projection data (.prj) of an existing shapefile already existing in the Grass location into Prj2Epsg which returned a ESPG number of 4267.
1) Covert BSB to GeoTIFF
gdal_translate -of GTiff 12363.KAP 12363rectified.tif
2) Reproject GeoTIFF into final file (12363rectified-reprojected.tif) using gdalwarp and the EPSG number
gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:4267 12363rectified.tif 12363rectified-reprojected.tif
3) Load final file via Grass GUI as you normally would.
The result is below- a NOAA rastermap overlain with vector bathymetric data (blue lines)
Everglades and Pythons
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- Written by Super User
- Category: Wetlands
A bright point in the well publicized everglade python infestation is a new technique used to find the always difficult to find python- affix a tracking beacon to a male python, and let him lead you to a female. Go figure. Using this method- an 18 foot female python, with over 70 eggs was discovered. Go figure. If I recall correctly , in previous years there were well publicized hunts that failed to find many pythons- it seems the techniques and hauls have been refined and improved considerably, since the first Python hunt in 2013- with over 1,600 entrants and fewer than 70 pythons captured.
Wetlands in the News
07 May 2024
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Colorado legislature: Lawmakers pass bill to restore wetlands protections for half of state’s waters
The Colorado House and Senate convened for the penultimate day of the 2024 session Tuesday as they rushed to wrap up legislation on property taxes, gun regulations, housing, land-use policy,...
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Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center overwhelmed by number of starving brown pelicans found in past month
Scores of emaciated brown pelicans, too weak to fly, have been found on Southern California beaches in the last month...
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Roberts, Dems Strike Deal on Regulating Critical Wetlands as Kirkmeyer ‘Lets Water Bill Go’
For state Sen. Dylan Roberts (D-Frisco) “protecting and securing our water future is the most important issue and biggest challenge facing our state for the next several decades.” So...
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Wild turtle painted in what may be a senior prank. It’s no joke to Port Royal wetlands group
A not-for-profit that advocates for Cypress Wetlands and its wildlife notes it is against the law to harass wildlife...
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One goal of the $500K wetlands project is to curb the flooding of the Killbuck Creek
Benefits of H2Ohio project include harnessing the power of the regular flooding of the Killbuck Creek into feeding the wetlands.