This project will generate updated national wetlands inventory (NWI) spatial data for the tampa BAY region of florida

The current NWI spatial inventory for the tampa BAY region was completed in 2010 and does not accurately represent currently existing wetland habitat, making IT obsolete in terms of value for resource managers performing planning and analysis.coincident with NWI data production described above, ducks unlimited, INC. (DU) will assess the feasibility and benefits of incorporating NOAA c-cap data into the NWI data production workflow. NWI data have historically been used to support the production of c-cap wetlands data. This project will help determine whether c-cap data can be used to improve the efficiency or cost-effectiveness of the NWI data production process. The methods and analyses developed to use c-cap to support NWI data creation in puget sound will be applied to the tampa BAY area. They will be used to determine if the most recent c-cap data will improve NWI data production whilst performing a complete update of the area.