Name: Manatee Carcass Recovery locations in Florida
Display Field: FIELDID
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint
Description: GIS shapefile of recovered or verified manatee carcass locations within Florida from April 1974 through to the latest available spatially verified data. Locations are based both on coordinates provided by field staff (gathered either by GPS or by using navigation charts to ascertain latitudes and longitudes) and maps provided by the field staff. FWRI GIS staff in the Marine Mammal subsection verify that the provided coordinates match the intent of the plotted location. Points representing carcass locations were entered into a GIS using a digital shoreline basemap taken largely from NOAA navigation charts (1:40,000) and from USGS quadrangles (1:24,000) or in reference to the latest available NAIP aerial imagery when the data were processed. The scale is considered to be 1:40,000.