U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT 02-327 Historical Aerial Photography for the Greater Everglades of South Florida: The 1940, 1:40,000 Photoset By: Thomas J. Smith III(1), Ann M. Foster(2), Peter R. Briere(3), Alisa W. Coffin(4), John W. Jones(5), Carson Van Arsdall(5) and Laurinda J. Frye(6) (1) USGS, Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies, 600 Fourth St. South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 Tom_J_Smith@usgs.gov (2) USGS, Florida Caribbean Science Center, 412 NE 16th Ave., Gainesville, Florida 32601 Ann_Foster@usgs.gov  (3) DynCorp/DynTel, 412 NE 16th Ave., Gainesville, Florida 32601 Peter_Briere@usgs.gov (4) University of Florida, 412 NE 16th Ave., Gainesville, Florida 32601 Alisa_Coffin@usgs.gov (5) USGS, 521 National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192 jwjones@usgs.gov, cvanars@usgs.gov (6) Eckerd College, 4200 54th Ave. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Gale A. Norton, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Charles G. Groat, Director For sale by the U. S. Geological Survey Information Services Box 25286, Federal Center Denver, CO 80255 TABLE OF CONTENTS Disclaimer System Requirements Project Summary CD Organization Getting Started Contacts Credits and Acknowledgements References DISCLAIMER This report was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Although the data published herein has been reviewed by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and related material. Publication and distribution of these data should not be construed to constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favor by the United States Government or any agency thereof. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This DVD can be accessed by any computer system that has the appropriate hardware and software to read DVD discs. The discs are intended for use with Windows, Macintosh and UNIX systems. PROJECT SUMMARY The Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC), a center of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Biological Resources Discipline (BRD), in collaboration with the Mapping Applications Center (MAC) of the National Mapping Discipline (NMD) has created digital files of existing 1940 (1:40,000) aerial photography for the South Florida region. These digital files are available on this DVD in a manner designed to facilitate access to the product by those intending to integrate the data with other spatial data, particularly those interested in the impacts of global climate change and land use change on coastal ecosystems. This product is a precursor to a second publication containing higher- resolution, rectified versions of the photos. The photos are archived in the 300dpi_images subdirectory of this report as 300 dpi (dots per inch) jpeg files. DVD ORGANIZATION The files on the DVD are organized by directory. The 'htm', 'sheet_jpgs', 'mos_jpg' and 'misc' directories contain all the necessary HTML and image files to run the web pages. The 'sheet_jpgs' directory contains individual ungeoreferenced digital photos while the 'mos_jpg' directory contains mosaics 1-36 linked to individual frames via *.htm files. The 'metadata' directory contains metadata and GIS files corresponding to archived and missing photographs from the 1940 USDA/SCS 1:40,000 Photography. The '300dpi_images' directory contains the jpeg images at 300 dpi for printing purposes. GETTING STARTED Insert the DVD into a computer DVD drive and access the index.htm file in the root directory either by opening it through a web browser or by double-clicking on the file icon. CONTACTS T. J. Smith III USGS, Center for Coastal and Regional Marine Studies 600 Fourth St. South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 Tom_J_Smith@usgs.gov A. M. Foster USGS, Florida Caribbean Science Center 412 NE 16th Ave. Gainesville, Florida 32601 Ann_Foster@usgs.gov  P. R. Briere DynCorp/DynTel 412 NE 16th Ave. Gainesville, Florida 32601 Peter_Briere@usgs.gov A.W. Coffin University of Florida 412 NE 16th Ave. Gainesville, Florida 32601 Alisa_Coffin@usgs.gov J. W. Jones USGS, 521 National Center Reston, Virginia 20192 jwjones@usgs.gov C. Van Arsdall USGS, 521 National Center Reston, Virginia 20192 cvanars@usgs.gov L. J. Frye Eckerd College 4200 54th Ave. South St. Petersburg, FL 33711 CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Funding from the USGS Place-Based Studies program to the senior author under the project "Interrelation of Everglades hydrology and Florida Bay dynamics to ecosystem processes and restoration in south Florida" helped make the report possible. Additional funding came from the BRD Global Climate Change Program for the project "Understanding and predicting global climate change impacts on the vegetation and fauna of mangrove forested ecosystems in Florida" and is gratefully acknowledged. R. Johnson, W. Perry, D. Buker, and T. Mullins of the South Florida Natural Resources Center at Everglades National Park provided access to the Park's aerial photographic archives. L. Brandt (Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge), T. Polizos (Collier County office of the Natural Resources Conservation Service) and C. Coffin (Miami- Dade Co., NRCS) generously assisted by providing the photos of their respective geographic regions of south Florida. K. Rutchey provided access to the archives of the South Florida Water Management District. REFERENCES Blake, N.M. 1980. Land into water - water into land. University Presses of Florida. Tallahassee, FL. 344pp. Davis, J.H. 1943. The natural features of southern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Bulletin, 25: 1-311. Davis, S.M., L.H. Gunderson, W.A. Park, J.R. Richardson, and J.E. Mattson. 1994. Landscape dimension, composition, and function in a changing Everglades landscape. Pgs 419-443 In Davis, S.M. and J.C. Ogden. Everglades: The ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, FL. Fennema, R.J., C.J. Neidrauer, R.A. Johnson, T.K. MacVicar and W.A. Perkins. 1994. A computer model to simulate natural Everglades hydrology. Pgs. 249-290 In Davis, S.M. and J.C. Ogden. Everglades: The ecosystem and its restoration. 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