Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) Water Surfaces Data

Surfaces are recorded as elevations in centimeters relative to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). These surfaces are served on the web as GIS data layers.

Spatially explicit hydrologic information can be critical in understanding and predicting changes in biotic communities in wetland ecosystems. Repeated field measurements, the traditional method of collecting water surface information, is labor intensive and doesn't produce spatially continuous data across large areas. For this reason the EDEN project was started to collect data from over 200 real time stage monitoring gages that automatically record and radio-transmit data.