FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2003, RELEASED NOVEMBER, 2002.
TITLE: AMBIENT AIR MONITORING SITES
Geodataset Name: AMBAIR Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POINT
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains locations of ambient air monitoring sites.
DATA SOURCE(S): Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: N/A DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: 11/26/97 GEODATASET EXTENT: State of Florida
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:
Datafile Name: AMBAIR.DBF ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE PRECISION SHAPE 6 SHAPEPOINT 0 OFFICECODE 19 DECIMAL 0 SITE_ID 19 DECIMAL 0 AGENCY 1 CHARACTER - ADDRESS 64 CHARACTER - PARAM1 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM2 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM3 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM4 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM5 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM6 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM7 19 DECIMAL 0 PARAM8 19 DECIMAL 0 NAME 32 CHARACTER - FGDLCODE 32 CHARACTER -
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
ITEM ITEM DESCRIPTION
SHAPE Data attribute inherent to the ESRI shapefile format,
which defines the data as a point, polyline, or polygon.
OFFICECODE 05 Northwest District
10 Northeast District
15 Central District
17 Volusia County
20 Southwest District
21 Polk County
22 Pasco County
23 Hernando County
25 Southeast District
30 South District
35 Northeast Branch Office
40 Jacksonville
45 Pinellas County
50 Hillsborough County
55 Manatee County
60 Sarasota County
65 Palm Beach County
70 Broward County
75 Dade County
80 Martin County
85 Private Industry
90 Orange County
95 Brevard County
SITE_ID Undefined by source.
AGENCY
F State
G County
H City
J Private
N Federal
ADDRESS Address of monitoring site.
PARAM1-10 The parameter fields contain codes for pollutants and related information.
Each parameter code is composed of six numerals. The first five are an
EPA Pollutant Code, while the last is a Monitor Type Code. For example,
in the code 424012, the 42401 signifies that the pollutant is Silicon Dioxide
and the 2 signifies that the station is a state or local air monitoring
station (See monitor type code descriptions below).
EPA Pollutant Codes
11101 Total Suspended Particles
12128 Lead
42101 Carbon Monoxide
42401 Silicon Dioxide
42601 Nitrogen Oxide
42602 Nitrogen Dioxide
42603 Other Oxides of Nitrogen
44201 Ozone
61101 Wind Speed
61102 Wind Direction
61103 Vector Wind Speed
61104 Vector Wind Direction
81102 Particulate Matter < 10 microns
Monitor Type Code
1 NAMS National Air Monitoring Station
2 SLAMS State and Local Air Monitoring Station
3 Special Purpose
NAME County name corresponding to FGDLCODE
FGDLCODE 1 Alachua
2 Baker
3 Bay
5 Brevard
6 Broward
8 Charlotte
9 Citrus
10 Clay
11 Collier
13 Dade
16 Duval
17 Escambia
20 Gadsden
23 Gulf
24 Hamilton
25 Hardee
26 Hendry
27 Hernando
28 Highlands
29 Hillsborough
30 Homles
31 Indian River
32 Jackson
35 Lake
36 Lee
37 Leon
38 Levy
41 Manatee
42 Marion
43 Martin
44 Monroe
45 Nassau
46 Okaloosa
47 Okeechobee
48 Orange
50 Palm Beach
51 Pasco
52 Pinellas
53 Polk
54 Putnam
55 St. Johns
56 St. Lucie
57 Santa Rosa
58 Sarasota
59 Seminole
62 Taylor
64 Volusia
USER NOTES:
LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA / WARNINGS TO THE USER : Site locations were derived using two different methods and most of the sites were derived through interpolation from 1 : 24,000 USGS 7.5' Quad Sheets. See "Data Lineage Summary" description below. A note concerning data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modelling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:250000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at: http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
-Removed items X and Y. -Altered precision of Decimal Items to 0, since there were no fractional values. (All values contained in decimal fields were whole numbers). -Dropped items w/ no values: PARAM9, PARAM10 -COUNTY item was dropped, and FGDLCODE and NAME items were added to correspond to old COUNTY item
REFERENCES:
Florida DEP website: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gis/dataspec.htm
DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Dataset was downloaded by GeoPlan in shapefile format from FDEP
(http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gis/datadir.asp) Converted the
field COUNTY to FGDLCODE equivilent attribute labels, then deleated COUNTY field.
Added the field NAME to define the attributes of the FGDLCODE field.
The dataset's prior history is below.
LINEAGE (as obtained from FDEP)
Description of Source Materials:
SOURCE TITLE : Air Quality System
SCALE : N/A
DATUM : NAD1927
MAP PROJECTION : UTM Zones 16 and 17
MEDIA OF SOURCE : Spreadsheet on diskette
DATE OF SOURCE MATERIAL : August 1997
UPDATE SCHEDULE : Annual
Creator of Source or Data Layer:
AGENCY/ORGANIZATION : Air Resources Management
UNIT/SECTION : Bureau of Air Monitoring and Mobile Sources
CONTACT PERSON : Brian Kerckhoff
TITLE : Environmental Manager
PHONE NUMBER : 850/488-6140
Derivation Method(s) for Data:
COMPUTER HARDWARE USED : HP Workstation
OPERATING SYSTEM : UNIX
GIS/MAPPING SOFTWARE AND VERSION USED : ArcView 3.0a + ARC/INFO 7.1.1
Explanation of Procedures Used to Transform the Data:
Locational data was obtained by two methods. Sites in Broward and
Hillsborough Counties were obtained using a Trimble PRO/XL GPS unit with
differential correction. The rest of the sites were derived through
interpolation from 1 : 24,000 USGS 7.5' Quad Sheets.
Original spreadsheet of Ambient Air Monitoring Sites contained sites in
both UTM Zone 16 and UTM Zone 17, so records were separated into two tables. In
ArcView 3.0a, the tables were used to create event themes which were converted
to shape files. In ARC/INFO 7.1.1, the shape files were converted to coverages
using the SHAPEARC command, each were projected from their respective UTM Zones
into DEP's Albers projection. Now in a common projection, the two coverages
were merged using the APPEND command.
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:
Projection ALBERS Units METERS Datum HPGN Spheroid GRS1980 1st standard parallel 24 0 0.000 2nd standard parallel 31 30 0.000 central meridian -84 0 0.000 latitude of projection's origin 24 0 0.000 false easting (meters) 400000.00000 false northing (meters) 0.00000
DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Abbr.name: FDEP
Contact Person: GIS Section/GIS Help Desk
Phone: 850/921-9745
Web site: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gis/
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: Florida Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name: FGDL
Address: Florida Geographic Data Library
431 Architecture
PO Box 115706
Gainesville, FL 32611-5706
Web site: http://www.fgdl.org
Contact FGDL:
Technical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html
FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html
FGDL Mailing Lists: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html
For FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.html