All About the Wetland Image Gallery

The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. This nationwide data publishing effort is known as the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI is a physical, organizational, and virtual network designed to enable the development and sharing of this nation's digital geographic information resources. FGDC activities are administered through the FGDC Secretariat, hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Wetland Image Gallery.

The Wetland Image Gallery is a compilation of wetland images and corresponding information for the FGDC Wetland Classification System. The Gallery provides an image framework of the various and multitude of potential wetlands habitats.  The intent is to support, update, and add new images as examples to compliment the classification scheme within the Classification of Wetlands and Deep Water Habitats of the United States.
Images are in color and represent ten basic wetland categories:

• forested wetlands
• wetland scrub-shrub
• mosses - lichens
• fresh marsh
• salt marsh
• open water
• submerged & floating aquatics
• flats & beaches
• reefs
• streambed

The general public, government personnel, wetland scientists, geographers, environmentalists, and other interested parties can contribute to the Wetland Image Gallery. Civic groups, schools, and college programs and departments are encouraged to organize a group effort or project to collect images and information for addition to the Gallery.
All submissions are reviewed before inclusion in the wetland gallery. Please refer to Image Specifications in the Submission Guide and Review Process for requirements.  Contributors of accepted images will receive credit in the acknowledgements section of the image data.