Water Table Contours - Kent County, Michigan

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Groundwater Inventory and Mapping Project, a cooperative effort between the Water Bureau - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, USGS - Michigan Water Science Center and Michigan State University - Institute of Water Research, RS&GIS and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. This project was mandated by P.A. 148 (Michigan Acts of 2003). Major funding was provided by MDEQ, supplemented with additional funds from the USGS Cooperative Water Program.
Publication_Date: May, 2005
Title: Water Table Contours - Kent County, Michigan
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: East Lansing, MI
Publisher:
Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State University
Online_Linkage: <http://gwmap.rsgis.msu.edu/>
Description:
Abstract:
Individual county first water contour datasets represent the elevation of the first water (water table) in 10-foot intervals across the landscape. Each first water contour dataset was created using the contour function in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, version 8.3.
Purpose:
This dataset is intended to give a general overview of the first water (water table) elevation for the purposes of groundwater management.
Supplemental_Information:
Contours were generated from a generalized first water grid for the purpose of creating smoother contours.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 5/5/2005
Time_of_Day: 14:00
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -85.793542
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -85.302388
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.297008
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.765380
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: First Water
Theme_Keyword: Water Table
Theme_Keyword: contour
Theme_Keyword: interval
Place:
Place_Keyword: Michigan County
Place_Keyword: Michigan
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Access_Constraints: No restrictions on access
Use_Constraints: No restrictions on use
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: David P. Lusch, Ph.D.
Contact_Organization:
Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State University
Contact_Position: Senior Research Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 1405 South Harrison Rd., Room 308
City: East Lansing
State_or_Province: MI
Postal_Code: 48823
Country: United States of America
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 517-355-8497
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 517-353-1821
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lusch@msu.edu
Browse_Graphic:
Data_Set_Credit:
Michigan State University: Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services - Department of Geography; Institute of Water Research; Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
The accuracy of the contours were not tested for accuracy, except by visual inspection. Furthermore, for the purpose of creating smoother contours and removing extraneous data, contours were created from a generalized first water surface. This resulted in less precise, but more readable, contour data.
Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:
Attribute_Accuracy_Value: VALUE
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The water table contours dataset varies in consistency due to the inconsistincies in the data used during processing of the first water (water table) surface.
Completeness_Report:
All county files have been inspected for competeness to ensure that there is no missing information and that the data extend out to a 90-meter buffer around the county.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
The majority of the input data meets 1:24,000 NMAS. In some counties, National Wetland Inventory data were used, which were photointerpreted from unrectified 1:58,000 scale aerial photography.
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Vertical accuracy matches the USGS National Elevation Dataset established accuracy.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Publication_Date: 1992
Title: Michigan MIRIS Rivers and Drains
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: MIRIS
Publication_Information:
Publisher: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Online_Linkage: <http://www.michigan.gov/cgi>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24,000
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: MIRIS Rivers & Drains
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Michigan Center for Geographic Information
Publication_Date: 20010501
Title: Michigan Framework Lakes and Rivers (polygons) v1b
Edition: Version 1b
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Framework version 1b
Publication_Information:
Publisher: Michigan Center for Geographic Information
Online_Linkage: <http://www.michigan.gov/cgi>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24,000
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FW Hydro polys v1b
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Michigan Center for Geographic Information
Publication_Date: 20030908
Title: Michigan Framework Counties 3b
Edition: Version 3b
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Framework version 3b
Publication_Information:
Publisher: Michigan Center for Geographic Information
Online_Linkage: <http://www.michigan.gov/cgi>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24,000
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FW County 3b
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Publication_Date: Various and ongoing
Title: Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database
Edition: versions 1 and 2
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: SSURGO
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Worth, Texas
Publisher:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Online_Linkage: <http://SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov/>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24,000
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: SSURGO Soils
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Publication_Date: 1979-1994
Title: MDNR National Wetlands Inventory
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, Florida
Publisher: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24,000
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: MNFI Wetlands
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Publication_Date: 1999
Title: USGS EDC: National Elevation Dataset
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Sioux Falls, SD USA
Publisher: United States Geological Survey
Source_Scale_Denominator: 30 meter
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USGS NED
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Publication_Time: 1992
Title: Michigan MIRIS Soils
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Lansing, MI
Publisher: Michigan CGI and Michigan DEQ
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24,000
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: MIRIS Soils
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Mchigan Department of Environmental Quality
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: Wellogic Well locations
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details:
Point file created and maintained by MDEQ and availble for download from Michigan Center for Geograghic Information
Online_Linkage: <http://www.michigan.gov/deq>
Online_Linkage: <http://www.michigan.gov/CGI>
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DEQ Wellogic
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Creating contours from First Water grid: Using the Neighborhood Statistics function in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, created a generalized First Water grid using a 5 x 5 filter. Using Spatial Analyst, created 10-foot contours from the generalized grid.
Process_Date: November 2004 - May 2005
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Robert Goodwin
Contact_Organization: Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services
Contact_Position: GIS/Remote Sensing Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 1405 South Harrison Road, Room 308
City: East Lansing
State_or_Province: MI
Postal_Code: 48823
Country: United States of America
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 517-432-0879
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 517-353-1821
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: goodwinr@msu.edu
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Metadata imported.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: C:\DOCUME~1\goodwin\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml7A1.tmp

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1868
Raster_Object_Information:
Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell
Row_Count: 1344
Column_Count: 1655
Vertical_Count: 1

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: Oblique Mercator
Oblique_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Center_Line: 0.999600
Oblique_Line_Azimuth:
Azimuthal_Angle: 337.255560
Azimuth_Measure_Point_Longitude: -86.000000
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 45.309167
False_Easting: 2546731.496000
False_Northing: -4354009.816000
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000128
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000128
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Altitude_System_Definition:
Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Vertical Datum of 1988
Altitude_Distance_Units: feet
Altitude_Encoding_Method:
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: VALUE
Entity_Type_Definition: Elevation of water table in feet
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: RSGIS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ID
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CONTOUR

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: David P. Lusch, Ph.D.
Contact_Organization:
Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State University
Contact_Position: Senior Research Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 1405 South Harrison, Room 308
City: East Lansing
State_or_Province: MI
Postal_Code: 48823
Country: United States of America
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 517-355-8497
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 517-353-1821
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lusch@msu.edu
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
The State of Michigan or the Ground Water Inventory and Mapping Project partnership assumes no liability for results or conclusions drawn from use of this data.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Transfer_Size: 18.956

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20050718
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services
Contact_Person: Robert Goodwin
Contact_Position: GIS/Remote Sensing Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 1405 South Harrison, Room 308
City: East Lansing
State_or_Province: MI
Postal_Code: 48823
Country: United States of America
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 517-432-0879
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 517-353-1821
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: goodwinr@msu.edu
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Extensions:
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Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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