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Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) Active

By Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC) August 19, 2020

In the early 2000s, USGS developed the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) to provide water-level data for scientists, decision-makers, and managers to help monitor and assess Everglades restoration. EDEN is a real-time integrated network of 275 water-level gages, water-surface models, and applications that provides 400 x 400 meter gridded daily water-level data across the freshwater part of the Greater Everglades landscape. Combined with a digital elevation model, EDEN’s continuous water-level surfaces are used to calculate water depth, recession rates, hydroperiod, and a count of dry/wet days, among other derived hydrologic data.  

The primary purpose of EDEN is to provide consistent, documented, and readily available hydrologic and ground-elevation data for the Everglades. EDEN includes additional data sets and tools, including rainfall and evapotranspiration data, hindcast datasets, benchmark data, statistical analyses, and data visualization tools. Additional applications have been developed based on the needs of the research and management community: 

Picture of field water-level monitoring gage EDEN 13
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Field water-level monitoring gage EDEN 13. ​​​​​​​(Credit: Michael Oliver, U.S. Geological Survey. Public domain.)
  • The Explore and View EDEN (EVE) application (https://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/eve/) allows users to view and download water-level, rainfall, and potential evapotranspiration data at EDEN gages in graphical or tabular formats. 
  • The EDEN Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (CSSS) Viewer application (https://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/csss/) evaluates water depths and other important metrics in CSSS habitat on a historical and real-time basis.
  • The Coastal Salinity Index (CSI) and Coastal EDEN application (https://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/coastal/) provide access to real-time data along the coastal fringe of the southern Everglades. The CSI indicates potential drought conditions based on the statistics of salinity measured at coastal stations and can be viewed online along with other real-time environmental parameters and statistics.
  • The Everglades Restoration Transition Plan (ERTP) water-level alert map and notification system (https://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/ertp/) allows stakeholders to monitor extreme water-level conditions at gages and tree islands in Everglades National Park (ENP) and Water Conservation Areas 3A and 3B. 
EDEN Bottle Creek Gage
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Bottle Creek gage in Everglades National Park.​​​​​​​(Public domain.)

The original version of EDEN was first developed in 2007 using radial-basis functions to interpolate a continuous water-level surface from discrete gage data. This method continued in 2014 with version 2, which involved an expansion of the EDEN domain to include an additional portion of southern Big Cypress National Preserve and northwestern ENP upstream of the marsh mangrove wetlands. Version 3 was developed in 2019 and included incorporation of below-ground water-level representation and a conversion to the R programming language to create more efficient and portable code.

To access these data or applications, please visit the EDEN website: https://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/

 

Below are publications associated with this project.

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The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) surface-water interpolation model, version 3

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) is an integrated network of water-level gages, interpolation models that estimate daily water-level data at ungaged locations, and applications that generate derived hydrologic data across the freshwater part of the Greater Everglades landscape. Version 3 (V3) of the EDEN interpolation surface-water model is the most recent update, replacing the versi
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Saira Haider, Eric Swain, James Beerens, Matthew D. Petkewich, Bryan McCloskey, Heather Henkel
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC), Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN)—A decade of serving hydrologic information to scientists and resource managers

IntroductionThe Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) provides scientists and resource managers with regional maps of daily water levels and depths in the freshwater part of the Greater Everglades landscape. The EDEN domain includes all or parts of five Water Conservation Areas, Big Cypress National Preserve, Pennsuco Wetlands, and Everglades National Park. Daily water-level maps are interpol
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Eduardo Patino, Paul Conrads, Eric D. Swain, James M. Beerens
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Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC), Wildland Fire Science

User’s manual for the Automated Data Assurance and Management application developed for quality control of Everglades Depth Estimation Network water-level data

The generation of Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) daily water-level and water-depth maps is dependent on high quality real-time data from over 240 water-level stations. To increase the accuracy of the daily water-surface maps, the Automated Data Assurance and Management (ADAM) tool was created by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystems Science. The A
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Matthew D. Petkewich, Ruby C. Daamen, Edwin A. Roehl, Paul Conrads
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Using inferential sensors for quality control of Everglades Depth Estimation Network water-level data

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN), with over 240 real-time gaging stations, provides hydrologic data for freshwater and tidal areas of the Everglades. These data are used to generate daily water-level and water-depth maps of the Everglades that are used to assess biotic responses to hydrologic change resulting from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
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Matthew D. Petkewich, Ruby C. Daamen, Edwin A. Roehl, Paul Conrads
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) surface-water model, version 2

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) is an integrated network of water-level gages, interpolation models that generate daily water-level and water-depth data, and applications that compute derived hydrologic data across the freshwater part of the greater Everglades landscape. The U.S. Geological Survey Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystems Science provides support for EDEN in order for
Authors
Pamela A. Telis, Zhixiao Xie, Zhongwei Liu, Yingru Li, Paul Conrads
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Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC)

Hydrologic record extension of water-level data in the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN), 1991-99

The real-time Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) has been established to support a variety of scientific and water management purposes. The expansiveness of the Everglades, limited number of gaging stations, and extreme sensitivity of the ecosystem to small changes in water depth have created a need for accurate water-level and water-depth maps. The EDEN water-surface elevation model uses
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Paul Conrads, Matthew D. Petkewich, Andrew M. O'Reilly, Pamela A. Telis
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Estimation of missing water-level data for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN), 2013 update

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network is an integrated network of real-time water-level gaging stations, a ground-elevation model, and a water-surface elevation model designed to provide scientists, engineers, and water-resource managers with water-level and water-depth information (1991-2013) for the entire freshwater portion of the Greater Everglades. The U.S. Geological Survey Greater Ev
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Matthew D. Petkewich, Paul Conrads
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Analysis of changes in water-level dynamics at selected sites in the Florida Everglades

The historical modification and regulation of the hydrologic patterns in the Florida Everglades have resulted in changes in the ecosystem of South Florida and the Florida Everglades. Since the 1970s, substantial focus has been given to the restoration of the Everglades ecosystem. The U.S. Geological Survey through its Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystem Science and National Water-Quality Assessm
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Paul Conrads, Stephen T. Benedict
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

An approach to regional wetland digital elevation model development using a differential global positioning system and a custom-built helicopter-based surveying system

Accurate topographic data are critical to restoration science and planning for the Everglades region of South Florida, USA. They are needed to monitor and simulate water level, water depth and hydroperiod and are used in scientific research on hydrologic and biologic processes. Because large wetland environments and data acquisition challenge conventional ground-based and remotely sensed data coll
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J. W. Jones, G.B. Desmond, C. Henkle, R. Glover

Landscape unit based digital elevation model development for the freshwater wetlands within the Arthur C. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Southeastern Florida

The hydrologic regime is a critical limiting factor in the delicate ecosystem of the greater Everglades freshwater wetlands in south Florida that has been severely altered by management activities in the past several decades. "Getting the water right" is regarded as the key to successful restoration of this unique wetland ecosystem. An essential component to represent and model its hydrologic regi
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Zhixiao Xie, Zhongwei Liu, John Jones, Aaron L. Higer, Pamela A. Telis

Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) Applications: Tools to View, Extract, Plot, and Manipulate EDEN Data

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) is an integrated system of real-time water-level monitoring, ground-elevation data, and water-surface elevation modeling to provide scientists and water managers with current on-line water-depth information for the entire freshwater part of the greater Everglades. To assist users in applying the EDEN data to their particular needs, a series of five ED
Authors
Pamela A. Telis, Heather Henkel
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Estimation of Missing Water-Level Data for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN)

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) is an integrated network of real-time water-level gaging stations, ground-elevation models, and water-surface elevation models designed to provide scientists, engineers, and water-resource managers with current (2000-2009) water-depth information for the entire freshwater portion of the greater Everglades. The U.S. Geological Survey Greater Everglades
Authors
Paul Conrads, Matthew D. Petkewich

Below are software products associated with this project.

EDEN

This package provides a set of functions for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN). 

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Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC)