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FCE Redlands Flood Zones, Miami-Dade County, South Florida


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Authors: Jeff Onsted
Time period: to
Package id: knb-lter-fce.1182.4
Dataset id: GIS_HD_Onsted_006

How to cite:
Onsted, J.. 2024. FCE Redlands Flood Zones, Miami-Dade County, South Florida. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/6f271ceb1750be7a0784a2a9d690c159. Dataset accessed 2024-11-21.

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  • Dataset Creator(s)
    • Name: Dr. Jeff Onsted 
    • Position: Assistant Professor
    • Organization: FIU
    • Address: 11200 SW 8th Street
      Miami, FL 33199 USA
    • Phone: 305-348-1693
    • Fax: 305-348-6137
    • Email: jonsted@fiu.edu

  • Dataset Abstract
    Urban growth models have increasingly been used by planners and policy makers to visualize, organize, understand, and predict urban growth. However, these models reveal a wide disparity in their attention to policy factors. Some urban growth models capture few if any specific policy effects (e.g.,as model variables), while others integrate certain policies but not others. Since zoning policies are the most widely used form of land use control in the United States, their conspicuous absence from so many urban growth models is surprising. This research investigated the impacts of zoning on urban growth by calibrating and simulating a cellular automaton urban growth model, SLEUTH, under two conditions in a South Florida location. The first condition integrated restrictive agricultural zoning into SLEUTH, while the other ignored zoning data. Goodness of fit metrics indicate that including the agricultural zoning data improved model performance. The results further suggest that agricultural zoning has been somewhat successful in retarding urban growth in South Florida. Ignoring zoning information is detrimental to SLEUTH performance in particular, and urban growth modeling in general.
  • Geographic Coverage
    Study Extent Description
    Redland Area of Miami-Dade County, South Florida

    Bounding Coordinates
    The Redland area of Miami Dade County
    N: 25.636, S: 25.475, E: -80.334, W: -80.595

    FCE LTER Sites
    FCE Human Dimension Study Area: Redlands

  • Methods
    Sampling Description
    I clipped the floodzone shapefile from the County, which got it from FEMA, to the Redland boundaries. The site boundaries were designed by the author based on a website that describes the boundaries of Redland (an unincorporated area with no official boundaries).

    Method Step

    Description
    I clipped the floodzone shapefile from the County, which got it from FEMA, to the Redland boundaries. The site boundaries were designed by the author based on a website that describes the boundaries of Redland (an unincorporated area with no official boundaries).

    Instrumentation
    Esri GIS software

  • Distribution and Intellectual Rights
    Data Submission Date:  2011-09-16

    Intellectual Rights
    This information is released under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The consumer of these data ("Data User" herein) is required to cite it appropriately in any publication that results from its use. The Data User should realize that these data may be actively used by others for ongoing research and that coordination may be necessary to prevent duplicate publication. The Data User is urged to contact the authors of these data if any questions about methodology or results occur. Where appropriate, the Data User is encouraged to consider collaboration or co-authorship with the authors. The Data User should realize that misinterpretation of data may occur if used out of context of the original study. While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and associated documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed. All data are made available "as is." The Data User should be aware, however, that data are updated periodically and it is the responsibility of the Data User to check for new versions of the data. The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data. Thank you.

  • Keywords
    FCE, Florida Coastal Everglades LTER, ecological research, long-term monitoring, Urban Growth Modeling, SLEUTH, Redlands, Miami-Dade County, GIS, geographical information systems, Cellular Automata, zoning, land use, South Florida, flood zone
  • Dataset Contact
    • Name: Jeff Onsted 
    • Position: project collaborator
    • Organization: FIU
    • Address: 11200 SW 8th Street
      Miami, FL 33199 305-348-1693
    • Phone: 305-348-1693
    • Fax: 305-348-6137
    • Email: jonsted@fiu.edu

    • Position: Information Manager
    • Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER
    • Address: Florida International University
      11200 SW 8th Street, OE 148
      Miami, FL 33199 USA
    • Email: fcelter@fiu.edu
    • URL: https://fcelter.fiu.edu