Description: This feature class represents the 2022 wetlands and waterbodies of Orange County, Florida that were digitized using Aerial Photo Interpretation (API) from existing georeferenced aerial imagery obtained from the Government of Orange County, FL for 2022 and previously developed Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) layers that utilized the Florida’s Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS) for 2014-2016 obtained from the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) and for 2017-2019 obtained South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). In 2022, Applied Ecology Inc. (AEI) began the process of creating and updating wetland and waterbody feature classes to reflect historical and current land cover conditions for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2022 in order to analyze change over time and the impacts that population growth has had on the wetlands of Orange County, Florida for Orange Counties Board of County Commissioners (BCC) and the State of the Wetlands report. The feature classes that were created for this project consolidated the FLUCCS data down to eight land cover classifications that include wet prairies, fresh water marshes, mixed scrub-shrub wetlands, hydric pine flatwoods, mixed wetland forests, Cypress wetlands, other wetlands and water. During the API process wetlands that were not initially in the previously existing land cover data from 2014 through 2019 were digitized, wetlands included in the land cover layers that were not present in the aerial imagery were removed, and the boundaries of existing wetlands were modified, if required, to reflect the data provided in the aerial imagery. In addition, any wetlands that were determined to be a different land cover type during the API process were revised to reflect the change in land cover classification.
Feature Type: Polygon
Type: FeatureLayer
Display Field: WETLAND_DESCRIPTION
Primary Key Field: OBJECTID
Show Map Tips: True
Searchable: False
Identifiable: True
Queryable: True
Can Copy Feature: True
Snappable: True
Snapping Enabled: False
Has Attachments: False
Feature Label: OC Wetlands - Class {WETLAND_CLASS}