San Diego Aquatic Resource Inventory (SDARI) is a detailed base map of the San Diego Regional Water Board aquatic features. SDARI was developed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and semi-automated object based image analysis (OBIA) leveraging both machine learning and rule based classification models. The mapping models use high resolution four band imagery, LiDAR, and a suite of ancillary data sources to consistently map aquatic resources throughout the San Diego region of interest.
The California Wetland Monitoring Workgroup’s (CWMW) State Wetland and Riparian Area Monitoring Plan (WRAMP) requires information consistent with EPA’s Level 1‐2‐3 framework for monitoring and assessment of wetland and stream resources.
The largest brackish marsh on the West Coast, Suisun Marsh is a unique transitional landscape between San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Marsh supports high ecological diversity and has long been managed for recreational hunting and native species support, yet it is threatened by an uncertain future under climate change. Effective adaptation in Suisun will require coordinated, science-based planning by agencies and private landowners.
If you are a community member interested in plastics and California's environment, then this page is for you. We invite you to peruse the information shared below as well as information on the primary project page. What follows is a description of the opportunities, as a community member, to engage in the development of a statewide plastics monitoring plan.
The California Aquatic Resources Inventory (CARI) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of wetlands, streams, and riparian areas consisting of polygon and line features that are standardized to a common wetland classification system. This statewide dataset is hosted online through http://www.EcoAtlas.org, a web application specifically designed to provide wetland information, at variable landscape scales, to environmental scientists, managers and planners in support of the State’s Wetland and Riparian Area Protection Policy
CARI is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of surface waters and their riparian areas consisting of polygon and line features with data-rich attributes that can be used for developing broad- or fine-scale landscape summaries of aquatic features. CARI is a seamless statewide map compiled from multiple data sources and standardized to a common classification system.
This work was completed in 2023 and funded by the California Department of Transportation. Individual vernal pools were mapped within the Carol Witham complex polygons where high resolution lidar data was available, approximately 83% of the complex polygon area. SFEI attempted to map the remaining complex polygons without lidar data, however without lidar and high resolution time series data the results were not compelling enough to include in this final dataset. Data used to map pools included 3DEP high resolution lidar sourced from the years 2007 - 2022, NAIP 2018, and NAIP 2020.
