Black Bayou Hydrologic Restoration CS-27 2010 Project Area Land-Water Data

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create, and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The restoration plans developed persuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetland restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetland loss. This data set consists of digital data describing wetland land-water classification for the Black Bayou Hydrologic Restoration for the year 2010. The land-water data were derived from interpretation of color infrared photography flown at 1:12000. All areas characterized by emergent vegetation, wetland forest, scrub-shrub, or uplands are classified as land, while open water, aquatics, and mud flats were classified as water.