Playas and Wetlands of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Data Released

I haven’t had a chance to explore this myself, but it looks like it might be a good data resource for those working in this region. Check it out!

Spatial Reserves

A new web resource from Texas Tech University of playas and wetlands for the southern High Plains region of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico offers a wide variety of spatial data on this key resource and region. The playa and wetlands GIS data are available for download here, including shapefile, geodatabase, and layer package formats. The data include 64,726 wetland features, of which 21,893 are identified as playas and another 14,455 as unclassified wetlands; in other words, they appear to be a playa but have no evidence of a hydric soil. The remaining features include impoundments, riparian features lakes, and other wetlands.

As we discuss in our book, (1) Many spatial data depositories seem to have been created without the GIS user in mind. Not this one. Careful attention has been paid to the data analyst. That’s good news! (2) Resources such as this don’t appear without…

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