Terrestrial mapping | coastline | NOAA | NGA World Vector Shoreline

 

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title

NGA World Vector Shoreline

Date
Citation identifier
Terrestrial mapping | coastline | NOAA | NGA World Vector Shoreline

Convention

gshhg-shp-2.3.5

Purpose

The GSHHG is a high-resolution geography data set including coastlines, political borders, and rivers

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address ORCID Role

NOAA Shoreline

NOAA Shoreline

 edmerp

NOAA

wdca.mgg@ngdc.noaa.gov

 edmo

University of Hawaii / Joint Institute for marine and atmospheric research JIMAR

 Originator
Spatial representation type
Vector
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Used by challenges

  • Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Environmental matrix

  • Human activities

Production mode

  • Delayed

Visibility

  • Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

  • There is no information at all on data policy adopted by data providers

Readyness

  • Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

  • Terrestrial mapping

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

Processing level of characteristics

  • High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

  • Online downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

  • coastline

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

  • Terrestrial

Service extent

  • The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

  • Submitted

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Unrestricted

Resource constraints

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Environment description

This dataset will be used for determining the coastal limits across the Atlantic area.

Content Information

Attribute description
observation
Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • ESRI Shapefile

OnLine resource

Shoreline Data

OnLine resource

Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG)

ATLANTIC_CH01_Product_1 / Map of offshore windfarm siting suitability in the geographic area where waters of France, Ireland and UK meet

N
S
E
W
Begin date
2006-01-01
End date
2015-12-31

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
 

ATLANTIC_CH01_Product_2 / Map of windfarm siting suitability in the area where waters of France and Spain meet in Bay of Biscay on 500 m contour

N
S
E
W
Begin date
2006-01-01
End date
2015-12-31

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
 

ATLANTIC_CH01_Product_3 / Map of windfarm siting suitability in the area of Southern border of Portugal and Spain at 20 m depth

N
S
E
W
Begin date
2006-01-01
End date
2015-12-31

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
 

ATLANTIC_CH01_Product_4 / Map of offshore windfarm siting suitability in the area off S. Miguel Island (Azores archipelago)

N
S
E
W
Begin date
2006-01-01
End date
2015-12-31

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
 

Resource lineage

Lineage

http://dnc.nga.mil/DNCSiteContent/StaticFiles/p/shoreline_data.doc

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Spatial representation info

Dimension name
Time
Cell geometry
Transformation parameter availability
true
Check point availability
true

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e6739b31-2805-41b2-91da-d2f6115427f6

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address ORCID Role

Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)

victorh@ipma.pt

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Name

Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Metadata linkage

https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/eng//metadata/e6739b31-2805-41b2-91da-d2f6115427f6

Metadata linkage

https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre//metadata/e6739b31-2805-41b2-91da-d2f6115427f6

Date info (Revision)
2018-03-15T10:43:52Z
Date info (Creation)
2014-10-08T14:35:32

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Edition

1.0

 
 

gshhg-shp-2.3.5


accessData

 

Overviews

Overview

Spatial extent

Keywords

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)
Terrestrial
Data delivery mechanisms
Online downloading services
Environmental matrix
Human activities
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land cover
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)
Terrestrial mapping
Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)
coastline
Policy visibility
There is no information at all on data policy adopted by data providers
Processing level of characteristics
High level analyzed
Production mode
Delayed
Readyness
Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content
Service extent
The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service
Used by challenges
Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting
Validation
Submitted
Visibility
Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics