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National Aquatic Resource Surveys

LakeCat Updates


October 30, 2018 - Update Wetness Index

The Composite Topographic Index (CTI) generated by EnviroAtlas used to generate the Wetness Index in LakeCat was recently updated. The Wetness Index in LakeCatCat was re-calculated using this updated, corrected CTI raster from EnviroAtlas.


April 9, 2018 - LakeCat article and dataset published online