RTK GPS Soil Elevation Survey for Mangroves in Sanibel, Florida

RTK GPS soil surface elevation measurements for impounded and natural regeneration mangroves in Sanibel, Florida. The data was collected from 23-26 September 2025 by Charles F. McKenzie to inform a restoration plan involving tidal reconnection and dredged sediments. The dataset is 1.7 MB in size and includes CSV, XML, and HTML files.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil elevation changes in mangrove ecosystems based on GPS survey data.
• Planning tidal reconnection restoration projects based on precise elevation measurements.
• Assessing the potential for using dredged sediments to raise soil surface elevation in wetlands.
• Comparing elevation profiles between impounded and naturally regenerating mangrove areas.

Strengths

• High-precision RTK GPS measurements with minimum horizontal precision of 0.01 meters and vertical precision of 0.03 meters.
• Data is referenced to the NAVD88 vertical datum using the Geoid 18 model.
• Dataset is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single-site study in Sanibel, Florida.

Provenance

Source

Charles F. McKenzie, associated with a project linked to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).

Collection Method

Field survey using RTK GPS equipment.

Time Range

23-26 September 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 19:53:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sanibel, Florida, USA