CDFW BIOS GIS Dataset, Contact: Joel Dudas, Description: The original topographic maps containing the drawn delta border were scanned from the Department of Water Resources. Images were registered to 1:24,000 USGS DRG's in ArcView (ESRI) utilizing imagewarp extension. The Delta boundary was digitized from the registered images. Accuracy within acceptable 7.5 Minute USGS map accuracy standards (1:24000 scale). Delineates the legal Delta established under the Delta Protection Act (Section 12220 of the Water Code) passed in 1959.

This applications hosts an interactive map developed by the Delta Stewardship Council, a California state agency, as a reference for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta). It illustrates select boundaries, reference layers, and Delta Stewardship Council regulatory policies with a geographic component. The Delta Plan policies shown here are provided for reference only, are not survey grade, and do not replace approved regulatory text in the Water Code, California Code of Regulations, or Public Resources Code. For more information, please contact the Delta Stewardship Council.Some layers shown on this map are maintained by other entities.

Delta Primary Zone Boundary The history of the primary zone boundary is as follows: the Primary Zone was defined in the 1992 Delta Flood Protection Act by referring to a map attached to the legislation, on file with the Secretary of State. See Public Resources Code section 29728. The map was submitted by the Delta Protection Commission. It is a large extent (small scale) map, with no real controls, little or no reference marks or guides of any kind, and no legal description. As such, from a mapping point of view, it leaves much to be desired. Nevertheless, by law, this map defines the Primary Zone boundary. Sometime shortly after the law was passed, DWR Land & Right of Way drew the boundary on 24k topo maps which also had the precise, agreed-upon legal Delta boundary. There are some significant differences between the DWR version and the official version. In asking current DWR Land & Right of Way staff (Carrol Leong & Fred Mau), there was no readily-available explanation, and the person who originally conducted it is no longer there. That is unfortunate, because not only are these maps much more "accuracy friendly", but there may have been good reasons why the boundary was drawn as such. This is the Delta primary zone boundary. It was drawn by Joel Dudas on November 27, 2002, as described below. It was drawn at the request of Margit Arambru, Delta Protection Commission. The legal Delta/primary zone effort conducted by Chico State had raised questions about the primary zone boundary, and upon inspection of the issue it has been determined that there is no precise solution available at this time. Lori Clamurro & Margit Arambru indicated that this delineation was acceptable to them upon review (12/8/2002). METHOD: There were significant errors in the paper base map, as evidenced by errors in the locations of roads, watercourses, and the legal Delta boundary itself. Due to these significant problems posed by the errors inherent in the paper base map, the base map was used as a guide, rather than as a literal translation, to locate the primary zone boundary. Furthermore, a second significant assumption was made, namely that the intent of the Primary Zone map was to indicate that the legal boundary and the primary zone boundary are one and the same in many places, but that mapping this would not result in distinguishable lines if they were literally drawn atop each other, and they therefore were lined up adjacent to one another (on the source paper map!), with the gap being as small as possible but also being far enough apart to clearly distinguish the two lines. Therefore, for GIS purposes, the shapefile was created by tracing the legal boundary line wherever this was felt to be appropriate. The third major assumption was that, in places where the primary zone and the legal boundary are separated, the primary zone boundary was equivalent to the primary zone boundary drawn by DWR Land & Right of Way on the higher accuracy 24k maps in all places except where significant deviations obviously occurred as indicated by the official paper base map. The rationale for this is that the 24k map does a better job delineating the boundary according to actual features (watercourses, rec district boundaries, etc.) where the intended boundary was clearly the same, but where the paper map simply cannot represent this intent accurately. However, in places where the intent clearly shows a discrepancy from the "higher accuracy" line, the boundary on the paper base map was literally traced. Delta Secondary Zone Boundary The parent of this file was one of the Delta Vision Status & Trends shapefiles. Published in 4/2007. The change to the boundary near Van Sickle was made subsequent to delivery to DWR on 10/8/2009. Also, offsets versus the legal Delta boundary were corrected by DWR on 10/22/2009. At this time, unless better information becomes available, it is therefore felt that these are the best boundaries available.

Department of Water Resources (DWR), Geodetic Branch, Cadastral Surveys reviewed this boundary in July, 2009, and agreed with the linework along with the description below as produced by Joel Dudas in 2002. This boundary was originally produced under the direction of Ray Irving, LS 3278 in August, 1993 (then Chief of the Geodetic Branch) at the request of Margit Aramburu with the Delta Protection Commission. The boundary, at that time, was paper form. The details of how it was prepared are described in the Memorandum dated July 29, 1994, along with additional correspondence between Ray Irving and Margit Aramburu on comments, changes & revisions during the process and are on file at Cadastral Surveys, DWR. (End 2009)***

Delta boundary version 2002.4 Delineates the legal Delta established under the Delta Protection Act (Section 12220 of the Water Code) passed in 1959. This boundary file has been reviewed by a variety of relevant professionals and is considered to be accurate. The exact accuracy is somewhat uncertain, but can be considered acceptable for mapping at 1:24000. The original topographic maps containing the drawn delta border were scanned from the Department of Water Resources. Images were registered to 1:24,000 USGS DRG's in ArcView (ESRI) utilizing imagewarp extension. The Delta boundary was digitized from the registered images. Accuracy within acceptable 7.5 Minute USGS map accuracy standards (1:24000 scale). The original legal boundary maps obtained from the Delta Protection Commission were compiled by DWR Land & Right of Way sometime in the early 1980's. They were based from the legal description in section 12220 of the Water Code, with ambiguities in the Code addressed by the individuals involved in the mapping project at that time. One revision was made to the original maps in the vicinity of Point Pleasant, and is the only difference between this and the 4.2001 version of the legal Delta boundary Arc/INFO coverage.

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) to achieve more effective governance while providing for the sustainable management of the Delta ecosystem and a more reliable water supply, using an adaptive management framework. Vegetation and land use are mapped for the 737,621 acres constituting the Legal Delta portion of the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta area. The current effort produced a digital map covering 737,621 acres considered to be the Legal Delta Area. 2016 National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery was used to delineate line work and attribute polygons. The 2019 map is a re-map of the 2007 effort. This map retained the line work and attributes of the 2007 mapping when static and was amended in areas where change occurred. Change detection was done comparing 723,426 acres, which were identical in the 2007 (2005 base imagery) and 2019 (2016 base imagery) efforts. GIC utilized the key produced for the 2007 mapping effort, in conjunction with the 2009 Central Valley key, as well as the CNPS membership rules online to determine classification levels and vegetation communities. Vegetation mapping is to alliance level when possible, otherwise it is left at group level (based on the National Vegetation Classification Standard, see http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/nvcs.html); land use is mapped to Anderson Level 2 classification (see https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0964/report.pdf). The map classification is based on a vegetation classification derived from field data collected in summer and fall of 2005 produced by the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP) of the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Membership rules for each alliance can be found at http://vegetation.cnps.org/. 2016 National Agricultural Inventory Program (NAIP) one meter orthoimagery was the baseline imagery used. Google Earth imagery was used as supplemental imagery. Natural vegetation comprises approximately 17% of the Delta study area, 65% is agriculture and pasture, 10% is urban/other and 8% is open water. The minimum mapping unit was 250 acres (100 ha). Link to download report: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=174866.

These data were automated to provide an accurate high-resolution historical shoreline of Mississippi River Delta, LA suitable as a geographic information system (GIS) data layer. These data are derived from shoreline maps that were produced by the NOAA National Ocean Service including its predecessor agencies which were based on an office interpretation of imagery and/or field survey. The N...

Soil-geomorphological mapping is a reliable tool for analyzing the patterns of soil distribution in various parts of Earth’s surface. Cryogenic and watershed areas are the most dynamic landscapes with relatively rapid transformation under the influence of climate change and river activity. The soil-geomorphological map obtained by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging, classical soil sections, geomorphological observation, and determination of the main chemical parameters of soils are presented. Mapping of the spatial distribution was performed using QGIS 3.22, SAGA GIS 7.9.1, and ArcGIS 10.6 software. The investigation of soil cover was performed according to WRB soil classification. From the obtained data, four types of soils were identified due to their position in the relief and chemical parameters. The dominant soil type is Folic Cryosol (Siltic) (41.1%) which is formed on the periglacial landscape of wet polygons on Samoylov Island. The application of high-resolution UAV imaging to construct soil-geomorphological maps is the most relevant method for analyzing soils formed in cryogenic, watershed, and mountainous landscapes. Based on SOC distribution, it was found that the highest SOC content corresponds to Holocene terrace (Cryosol and Histosol soil types), in areas that are not subject to the flooding process. According to the analysis of the chemical composition of soils, it was found that the main elements accumulating in the soil are SiO2, Al2O3, CaO, and K2O, which have a river origin. The soil-geomorphological maps can be used to analyze the reserves and contents of organic and inorganic components with high accuracy.

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Availability and Use Science Program study of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP), a shapefile representing seven generalized regions of the MAP extent as defined by Painter and Westerman (2018) was compiled. The generalized regions provide a framework for analysis, visualization, and regional comparisons of local data within the MAP. Regions north of the Red River were based on those described by Ackerman (1996). The Grand Prairie region includes the area north and east of the Arkansas River and south and west of the White River within the MAP. The Cache region includes the area north and east of the White River and the area generally west of Crowley’s Ridge, which lies outside of the MAP extent (Painter and Westerman, 2018), bisects the northern part of the MAP, and has elevations 100 to 250 feet (ft) higher than the MAP (Ackerman, 1996). The Delta region, which is roughly equivalent to the Yazoo River drainage, lies predomin ...

This map was developed by the Delta Stewardship Council, a California state agency, as a reference for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta). It illustrates select boundaries, reference layers, and Delta Stewardship Council regulatory policies with a geographic component. The Delta Plan policies shown here are provided for reference only, are not survey grade, and do not replace approved regulatory text in the Water Code, California Code of Regulations, or Public Resources Code. For more information, please contact the Delta Stewardship Council.Some layers shown on this map are maintained by other entities.Disclaimer: The Delta Stewardship Council does not acknowledge any legal responsibility for the use or misuse of this data. Data are not intended to be used for determination of applicability or consistency of a Delta Plan regulatory policy and do not represent survey-grade assessments. Data should be considered for evaluation and contextual information only. For questions related to this data and specific use cases please contact the Delta Stewardship Council at 916-445-5511 or hello@deltacouncil.ca.gov

1977 Delta Habitat Types were made digital by heads up digitizing registered scanned pages from 1979 Delta Environmental Atlas, produced by USACE. "The Habitat Types & Vegetation section delineates on 1 inch to 1000 foot scale aerial photographs the habitat types found in the Delta, described according to the classification system of the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Thirteen habitat types are defined in this Atlas. The system was based on a USFWS for its national wetland mapping program....The system was modified to include those terrestrial habitats, such as upland, agriculture, and urban, which were not included in the USFWS system. In addition, an open water classification was used in place of the USFWS river classification where the bottom type could not be identified." -excerpts from the 1979 USACE Delta Environmental Atlas, 7/1979. Digital images were clipped prior to warping to reduce risk of error during processing due to excess background. Digital clipped images were registered to USGS DOQQ's in ArcView 3.x(ESRI) utilizing Imagewarp 2.x extension. 23 October, 2002. Projection: UTM meters zone 10, nad 83. Accuracy within acceptable 7.5 Minute USGS map accuracy standards (1:24000 scale). For this set, the minimum number of control points used was 6 with an average of 8 to 9 points used. The pixel size for this set is 5.0 feet per pixel. User notes about the accuracy of this dataset (J Dudas, 1/24/2003): The goal of this project was to produce positionally accurate polygons which preserved the polygon areas/shapes as indicated in the Atlas plates. Chico State registered the scans to UTM Zone 10/NAD83, but it was clear that the scans had all sorts of distortions in them for a couple of fundamental reasons. The original Corps Atlas maps appear to have been produced by a fairly rough mosaicking, and as a result do not always correspond particularly well with DOQQs. Furthermore, the warping in the photos appears to get worse near the edges of the source photos, which suggests to me that the original photos were used in their entirety, rather than clipped, in effect a sidelap/overlap of 0%. As a result, the polygons were modified to reflect where some of these areas appeared in the 1993 DOQQs, for example, a channel island or a stretch of forest. In other words, the Corps Atlas polys were used to produce the shape geometry, and then the 1993 DOQQs provided the base for the actual poly locations. This will explain the positional offset seen between these polys and the scanned Atlas photos.

Miscellaneous Publication 172, Bedrock geologic map database of the Caribou Creek area, Big Delta C-4 and D-4 quadrangles, east-central Alaska, presents 1:25,000 scale geologic mapping of the Caribou Creek area in the Big Delta C-4 Quadrangle, east-central Alaska. The Caribou Creek area is known for significant placer gold but no known lode gold source. Additionally, it is one of the few regions in interior Alaska where native bismuth has been reported in placers. During an 11-week field campaign in the summer of 2002, an area of approximately 200 km2 was mapped at a 1:25,000 scale to delineate the area's geologic rock units, identify structural elements and their relative orientation, and collect rock samples for the geochemical and geochronological analysis needed to develop a model for the geological evolution of the area and potential source of the area's abundant placer gold. The resultant bedrock geologic map was published as a component of a University of Alaska master's thesis (Lessard, 2006). This publication release provides a modern compilation of the thesis map's GIS data. The dataset contains geologic, structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic data organized according to the GeMS and AK GeMS mapping schemas. The geodatabase and ESRI fonts and style files are available from the DGGS website: https://doi.org/10.14509/30866.

This map was digitized using 2010 true-color 1-meter National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial imagery. The minimum mapping unit is 0.25 acre with a 10-foot minimum width. The map classification is the same as used for the Delta Vegetation and Land Use map that was based on 2002 imagery and finalized in 2007. The map [ds292] can be obtained here: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS. The report, which provides the classification detail can be obtained here: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=18211. Because Liberty Island was mapped as part of the Delta mapping effort, changes over the eight year period between imagery dates can be seen, most obviously land accretion and erosion and invasion of the non-native water primrose, Ludwigia. Mappers used reconnaissance-level data to refine and verify the map. The data were collected at 48 points during two field missions: 1) August 9, 2012 by land covering the levee on the western boundary of the area, and 2) August 28 - 29, 2012 by boat. All vegetation samples were marked with GPS units and can serve as long-term monitoring points. Photos taken at these GPS points can be used for future monitoring. A database of field data and the digital photos are archived at the office of the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP) of DFW. This map has not been assessed for accuracy, but over 25% of the polygons were visited during field reconnaissance. Lead staff of the program cross-checked and edited the map attributes and delineations.

This dataset includes aboveground biomass (AGB) and vegetation of herbaceous and forest wetland at 5.4 m resolution across the Wax Lake Delta (WLD) in Southern Louisiana, USA, within the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) floodplain. Vegetation classes were derived from Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) imagery acquired over the Atchafalaya Basin and the Terrebonne Basin in October 2016 in combination with a digital elevation model. The AVIRIS-NG surface reflectance data were also combined with L-band Uninhabited Airborne Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) HV backscatter and scattering component values from coincident vegetation sample sites to develop and test AGB models for emergent herbaceous and forested wetland vegetation. This study used the integrated airborne data from AVIRIS-NG and UAVSAR to assess the instruments' unique capabilities in combination for estimating AGB in coastal deltaic wetlands. The 5.4 m resolution vegetation classification map for the WLD study area was then used to apply the best models to estimate AGB across the WLD.

This data set was developed to provide geologic map GIS of the Coeur d'Alene 1:100,000 quadrangle for use in future spatial analysis by a variety of users. These data can be printed in a variety of ways to display various geologic features or used for digital analysis and modeling. This database is not meant to be used or displayed at any scale larger than 1:100,000 (e.g. 1:62,500 or 1:24,000).

The digital geologic map of the Coeur d'Alene 1:100,000 quadrangle was compiled from preliminary digital datasets [Athol, Coeur d'Alene, Kellogg, Kingston, Lakeview, Lane, and Spirit Lake 15-minute quadrangles] prepared by the Idaho Geological Survey from A. B. Griggs (unpublished field maps), supplemented by Griggs (1973) and by digital data from Bookstrom and others (1999) and Derkey and others (1996). The digital geologic map database can be queried in many ways to produce a variety of derivative geologic maps.

This GIS consists of two major Arc/Info data sets: one line and polygon file (cda100k) containing geologic contacts and structures (lines) and geologic map rock units (polygons), and one point file (cda100kp) containing structural data.

Superseded

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4-1## A more recent version of this product appears here:

This product will continue to be distributed for archival purposes.

Domain and Product

Changes in the current bathymetry release (version 4) are limited to the region east of the Carquinez Strait (starting around Carquinez Bridge). To facilitate compatibility released by us and our partners, DWR distribute the region west as a separate companion tile and delineate the boundary of active revision in the present product in a place where its source data matches that of other Bay elevation models, e.g., the 2m seamless high-resolution bathymetric and topographic DEM of San Francisco Bay by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) (https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/coned/sanfrancisco.php ), the 2010 San Francisco Bay DEM by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metaview/page?xml=NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC/MGG/DEM/iso/xml/741.xml&view=getDataView&header=none ) or the prior (version 3) 10m digital elevation model (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3 ).The 10m DEM for the Bay-Delta is based on the first on the list, i.e. EROS’ 2m DEM for the Bay

New work reported here was done at 2m resolution, although the improvements have been incorporated into the 10m products as much as possible. Relative to the previous DWR release (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3), the 2m DEM product reported here consolidates work at this resolution into a small number of larger surfaces representing approximately one-third of the Delta (link to the Coverage Areas page). Laterally, the 2m models now extend over the levee crest as needed to match well with Delta LiDAR (http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/lidar2009 ), the main terrestrial source of data used in this work. The 10m product (link to the Coverage Areas page) is based on the updated USGS DEM (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/58599681e4b01224f329b484 ). In places where updated 2m models overlap the 10 meters, the 10m base elevation model was updated by resampling the new 2m model and adding levee enforcement. At the border between the 2m and 10m models, the two resolutions were locally edge-matched over a small region to maintain smoothness. For more information, please refer to the article: A Revised Continuous Surface Elevation Model for Modeling (link to Chapter 5 in the 2018 Annual Report).

Please note that by agreement with our data providers we distribute only our own integrated maps, not the original source point data.

Data Sources

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Coverage Areas

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4/resource/2e3f2b6e-9f0d-4719-b32a-dff449be18af

This dataset includes total suspended solids (TSS) at the water surface across the Atchafalaya and Terrebonne Basins in Southern Louisiana, USA, within the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) floodplain. AVIRIS-NG, the Next Generation Airborne Visible to Infrared Imaging Spectrometer, acquired data over the study area in 2015 and 2016. The remote imageries were combined with coincident field measurements to develop and validate spatially explicit estimates at 3.7-5.4 m resolution of the concentration (mg/L) of TSS.

This dataset provides field observations of thaw depth and dominant vegetation types, a LiDAR-derived elevation map, and permafrost distribution and probability maps for an area on the coastal plain of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), in western Alaska, USA. Field data were collected during July 8-17, 2016 to parameterize and to validate the derived permafrost maps. The YKD is in the sporadic to isolated permafrost zone where permafrost forms extensive elevated plateaus on abandoned floodplains. The region is extremely flat and vulnerable to eustatic sea-level rise and inland storm surges. These high-resolution permafrost maps support landscape change analyses and assessments of the impacts of climate change on permafrost in this region of high biological productivity, critical wildlife habitats, and subsistence-based human economy.

In the Delta Anatomy Mapping Project all levee anatomies were delineated using slope grids built from available LIDAR data points. LIDAR data points were converted to digital elevation models and subsequently into slope grids. Thresholds were identified that capture the levee crown, levee landside, levee waterside, ramps and toe ditches. Visual interpretations of slope thresholds were used in conjunction with heads-up digitizing to maintain smooth boundaries at a scale of 1:550. The delineation thresholds were derived from a combination of mapping scale, slope grid resolution and slope thresholds used for each anatomy classification. All anatomy has gone through an internal quality control process to ensure a minimum locational quality of +/- 3 feet. Anatomy was further reviewed and tested by DWR for compliance with an interpretive mapping standard of 80% accuracy. This data depicts the levee anatomy at the time of the LiDAR survey (2007) and are only accurate for that time. Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was created and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions.

This application was created to support the Mapping Existing Vegetation on Cordova Ranger District Vegetation Story Map. Dominance type, tree canopy cover, tall shrub canopy cover, and tree size maps were developed for Cordova Ranger District. The Cordova Ranger District (including other federal, state, native, and private land inholdings) was mapped through a partnership between the Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC) and the Chugach National Forest. The Chugach National Forest and their partners prepared the AOI classification system, identified the desired map units (map classes) and provided general project management. GTAC provided project support and expertise in vegetation mapping. A combination of reference data was used to inform the classification models that output the final maps. Federal and Private field personnel collected plot data on the ground. Classification models were used to characterize modeling units (mapping polygons) with the following vegetation attributes: 1) dominance type; 2) tree canopy cover; 3) tree size. The minimum map feature depicted on the map is 0.25 acres. All map products were designed according to the Forest Service mid-level vegetation mapping standards in order to be stored in the Forest GIS and National databases. This map product was generated primarily using data acquired prior to or in 2021. The field data used as reference information for this mapping project was primarily collected in the summer of 2021. Therefore, the final map can be considered indicative of the existing vegetation conditions found on the Cordova Ranger District in 2021.

This dataset contains AirSWOT interferogram products collected during the 2021 Delta-X Campaign over the Atchafalaya and Terrebonne Basins of the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA from 2021-03-26 to 2021-04-18 (Spring) and 2021-08-21 to 2021-09-12 (Fall). AirSWOT uses near-nadir wide-swath Ka-band radar interferometry to measure water-surface elevation and produce continuous gridded elevation data. AirSWOT elevation data is useful for calibrating elevation and slopes along the main channels, as well as tying observations to open ocean tidal conditions. The AirSWOT Level 1B (L1B) data products represent interferogram data in the radar coordinate system, not in georeferenced map coordinates. This is an earlier stage of data processing which is used to generate the later Level 2 and Level 3 data products which will contain georeferenced water heights and water height profiles for river channels in each basin. The data are provided in binary and text file formats.