4D1D7B9D-EEA4-47E2-9AE2-84BFBB6FF4FE eng utf8 dataset dataset U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) originator U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) - Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) Research Triangle Park, NC publisher 2025-07-23 ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification 2007 2 column 462780 10.000000 row 290662 10.000000 area false false -2364000.352845 270821.034355 -2364000.352845 3177441.034355 2263799.647155 3177441.034355 2263799.647155 270821.034355 -50100.352845 1724131.034355 center 4326 Esri 8.1.2 EnviroAtlas – Potential Wetland Area for the Conterminous United States 2024-07-30 publication U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) originator U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) - Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) Research Triangle Park, NC publisher mapDigital The Potential Wetland Area (PWA) layer shows areas where conditions may be suitable for wetland habitat at a 10-m resolution. Since the 1600's, an estimated 53% of wetlands in the Conterminous United States have been lost, with many areas being converted for agricultural or urban use. The ecosystems services provided by wetlands are extremely valuable, providing flood attenuation, water filtration, nutrient sequestration, vital habitat, and many others. Wetland restoration or creation can help restore these benefits for the surrounding community. There are several government and community projects that can utilize these data to assist in site selection for wetland restoration projects. This layer was created using the Random Forest (RF) machine learning algorithm in Google Earth Engine (GEE). The RF model utilized 17 data inputs to identify areas where attributes on the landscape are similar to the attributes found in existing wetlands. The input data for this layer fall into three categories: topographic variables, soils, and satellite imagery. Topographic - DEM's sourced from USGS 3D Elevation Program (10-m) -Elevation -Aspect -Slope -Compound Topographic Index (CTI) -Vertical Overland Flow Distance (VOFD) -Horizontal Overland Flow Distance (HOFD) -Pythagoras Overland Flow Distance (POFD) -Soils - Natural Resource Conservation Service's gNATSGO and gSSURGO products · Potential Wetland Soils (PWS) -European Space Agency's Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (10-m) Using these variables, the Random Forest model was run for each 2 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) in Google Earth Engine. The model used wetlands from the National Wetland Inventory (NWI) to create training data, masking out deep water areas such as the centers of lakes and rivers, and excluding estuarine and marine wetlands. For each HUC an equal number of wetland and non-wetland training points proportional to the size of the HUC were generated, with 30% of those points being reserved for accuracy assessment. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets). This data layer summarizes areas on the contiguous United States that have biophysical characteristics that may support wetland habitat. The overall goal of EnviroAtlas is to employ and develop the best available science to map indicators of ecosystem services production, demand, and drivers for the nation. completed Anne Neale U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, Nation Atlas for Sustainability Geospatial Data Owner (919) 541-3832 (919) 541-4329 109 T.W. 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EPA Public Domain License licenseUnrestricted https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html unclassified https://project-open-data.github.io/schema/#accessLevel grid eng utf8 Microsoft Windows 10 Version 10.0 (Build 22631) ; Esri ArcGIS 13.3.2.52636 true -128.007364 -65.254783 22.868609 51.649644 2016-01-01T00:00:00 2021-12-31T00:00:00 Areas that may support wetland habitat based on biophysical characteristics. thematicClassification 1 1 Band_1 1 0 Unified Code of Units of Measure [arb'U] false false false false false File Geodatabase Raster Dataset https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/download/EnviroAtlas_Potential_Wetland_Areas_CONUS_2024.zip download download https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Rasters/PWA_v2/ImageServer ESRI:ArcGIS offlineAccess https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-data information information https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas information information https://enviroatlas-epa.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/EPA::potential-wetland-area/about information information dataset Tests for integrity have not been performed. EPA National Geospatial Data Policy Features have been reviewed by U.S. EPA EnviroAtlas Project Managers for public release. true Features represented have not been tested for completeness EPA National Geospatial Data Policy Features have been reviewed by U.S. EPA EnviroAtlas Project Managers for public release. true Nationwide digital elevation model (DEM) data were sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at 1/3 arc-second resolution from the agency’s 3D Elevation Program (3DEP). This product has an overall vertical accuracy of 0.82 m (root mean square error), with variance across the dataset (Stoker and Miller 2022). Missing data (‘NoData’) in DEM tiles were interpolated using the GDAL fillnodata Python script with a max distance of 15 pixels (GDAL/OGR contributors 2022). DEM tiles were mosaicked, projected to Albers Equal Area Projection at 10-m resolution, and clipped to a modified version of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 U.S. state boundaries to include all available DEM data. The modified DEM data were used to calculate the Compound Topographic Index (CTI), the vertical component of the overland flow distance to channel (VOFD), the horizontal component of the overland flow distance to channel (HOFD) to channel, and the Pythagoras (i.e., straight line) component of the overland flow distance to channel (POFD) using Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models (TauDEM 5.3.7) Toolbox (Tarboton 2005). 2021-09-01T00:00:00 USGS 3DEP 10m National Map Download all states gSSURGO and gNATSGO files. Merge Component tables for all states to create CONUS product. Merge all Valu1 tables for CONUS. Merge all 10-m Mapunit rasters for gNATSGO and gSSURGO. Recode column "drainagecl" to: 1 - "Very poorly drained" and "Poorly Drained", 0 - all other classes. Recode column "hydricrating" to: 1 - "Yes", 0 - "No" or null. Create a new column where either recoded drainagecl or hydricrating are 1, then 1, else 0. Create another new column in which the comppct_r is multiplied by the binary drainagecl/hydricrating column. Summarize the Component table by mukey to Sum the percentage of component coverage (comppct_r) by Mapunit (mukey). Merge the resulting percentage coverage of qualifying drainagecl and hydricrating components by Mapunit Key to the Valu1 added table. Create a new column where if the drainagecl/hydricrating column had 0 but the pwsl1pomu column is greater than 0, input the pwsl1pomu value, else use the drainagecl/hydricrating percent coverage. Join the resulting table with percentage of wetland soils per mapunit to the CONUS 10-m mapunit raster. 2021-10-01T00:00:00 NRCS SSURGO and NATSGO Created Random Forest training dataset from the October 2021 National Wetland Inventory (NWI). Each state was downloaded and merged to produce a NWI product for the whole conterminous United States (CONUS). The following codes were assigned by wetland subclass: 1 - M1, M2, E1, E1; 2 - PE, PS, PR, PM, PF, PE, PA, Pf, L2, R4, Lh, Lc; 5 - R1, R2, R3, R5, L1, L. The feature class was converted to raster using Polygon to Raster, and the cell size was set to 10m. The raster was then reclassified to binary where the aforementioned classes were used - value 1 = non-wetland (0), value 2 = wetland (1), and value 5 = masked (NoData). 2021-10-30T00:00:00 National Wetland Inventory Access USGS 3DEP DEM resource on Google Earth Engine and use built-in tools to calculate elevation, aspect, and slope. 2021-11-30T00:00:00 USGS 3DEP 10m National Map Seamless Sentinel-1 images from January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2021 were composited and 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles of those stacks for the VV, VH, and band ratio (VV/VH) were calculated in Google Earth Engine. 2021-11-30T00:00:00 Sentinel-1 SAR GRD: C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Ground Range Detected Random Forest algorithm applied by 18 regional watersheds in U.S. Training and testing data points were generated randomly in Google Earth Engine, and used to train the Random Forest. The number of training points generated were based on 1 point per 475km2 per HUC-2. Equal number of points for the wetland and non-wetland classes were included. 70% of the training data were used to train the model and 30% were reserved for testing. 2022-01-31T00:00:00 ee.Classifier.smileRandomForest Each HUC-2 Random Forest model results were exported from Google Earth Engine, and loaded into ArcGIS Pro 2.8. The 18 regional watershed models were mosaicked into a single conterminous U.S. 10m product (Potential Wetland Areas, PWA). 2022-06-01T00:00:00 asNeeded