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General Category => Using SLAMM => Topic started by: gary on March 22, 2010, 03:12:19 AM

Title: the meaning of NWI
Post by: gary on March 22, 2010, 03:12:19 AM
Hi,Jonathan:
     Would you please tell me how i can find the meaning of the categories of NWI ? I need a link to know all of these stuffs, you know i dont have any background of this field,  thank you very much
Title: Re: the meaning of NWI
Post by: Jonathan S. Clough on March 23, 2010, 02:35:52 PM
Please start with the technical documentation, especially table 5, and the reference shown below that table.

Other resources include:

http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Data/WetlandCodes.html

http://wetlandsfws.er.usgs.gov/nwi/decoder/decoder.aspx

http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/_documents/gNSDI/ClassificationWetlandsDeepwaterHabitatsUS.pdf

Good luck!  -- J