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FCE Redlands 2001 Zoning, Miami-Dade County, South Florida


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Authors: Jeff Onsted
Time period: to
Package id: knb-lter-fce.1185.3
Dataset id: GIS_HD_Onsted_009

How to cite:
Onsted, J.. 2012. FCE Redlands 2001 Zoning, Miami-Dade County, South Florida . Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/. Dataset accessed 2024-12-21.

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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

    Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Study Area: South Florida, Everglades National Park, and Florida Bay
    N: 25.761, S: 24.913, E: -80.490, W: -81.078

    FCE LTER Sites
    FCE Human Dimension Study Area: Redlands

    All Sites
    Geographic Description
    Bounding Coordinates
    Redland Area of Miami-Dade County, South Florida
    N: 25.636, S: 25.475, E: -80.334, W: -80.595
  • Methods
    Sampling Description
    I clipped the zoning shapefile from the County 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 zoning shapefile from the County 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
    Online distribution
    http://fcelter.fiu.edu/perl/public_data_download.pl?datasetid=GIS_HD_Onsted_009.zip
    Data Submission Date:  2011-09-16

    Intellectual Rights
    These data are classified as 'Type II' whereby original FCE LTER experimental data collected by individual FCE researchers to be released to restricted audiences according to terms specified by the owners of the data. Type II data are considered to be exceptional and should be rare in occurrence. The justification for exceptions must be well documented and approved by the lead PI and Site Data Manager. Some examples of Type II data restrictions may include: locations of rare or endangered species, data that are covered under prior licensing or copyright (e.g., SPOT satellite data), or covered by the Human Subjects Act, Student Dissertation data and those data related to the FCE LTER Program but not funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under LTER grants #DEB-9910514, and # DBI-0620409. Researchers that make use of Type II Data may be subject to additional restrictions to protect any applicable commercial or confidentiality interests. All publications based on this dataset must cite the data Contributor, the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program and that this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under Cooperative Agreements #DEB-1237517, #DBI-0620409, and #DEB-9910514. Additionally, two copies of the manuscript must be submitted to the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program Office, LTER Program Manager, Florida International University, Southeast Environmental Research Center, OE 148, University Park, Miami, Florida 33199. For a complete description of the FCE LTER Data Access Policy and Data User Agreement, please go to FCE Data Management Policy at http://fcelter.fiu.edu/data/DataMgmt.pdf and LTER Network Data Access Policy at http://fcelter.fiu.edu/data/core/data_user_agreement/distribution_policy.html.

  • 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
  • Dataset Contact
    • Position: Information Manager
    • Organization: LTER Network Office
    • Address: UNM Biology Department, MSC03-2020
      1 University of New Mexico
      Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 USA
    • Phone: 505 277-2535
    • Fax: 505 277-2541
    • Email: tech-support@lternet.edu
    • URL: http://www.lternet.edu

    • Name: Jeff Onsted 
    • Position: Project Collaborator
    • Organization: FIU
    • Address: 11200 SW 8th Street
      Miami, FL 33199 USA
    • Phone: 305-348-1693
    • Fax: 305-348-6137
    • Email: jonsted@fiu.edu

    • Position: Information Manager
    • Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
    • Address: Florida International University
      University Park
      OE 148
      Miami, FL 33199 USA
    • Phone: 305-348-6054
    • Fax: 305-348-4096
    • Email: fcelter@fiu.edu
    • URL: http://fcelter.fiu.edu