Biscayne Bay Shipwrecks - Part 1

This week begins with the first of a three-part lab involving GIS and shipwrecks!  I am super excited about this lab as this is exactly the reason I signed up for the GIS Certificate program at UWF in the first place.  The first part of this lab is about collecting the data we'll need for later stages of the lab.  We were provided a modern-day nautical chart (left) of Biscayne Bay National Park and the locations of five shipwrecks along the Maritime Heritage Trail (an underwater trail!).  We then had to locate an historical map (center) and the bathymetry data (right, in the form of a digital elevation model) for the park. From this maps, we get a sense of the conditions that led to these ships coming to grief in this particular part of the Florida Keys.