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1. Continental Shelf Area [geodata_1085]
According to the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, the Continental Shelf is the area of the seabed and subsoil which extends beyond the territorial sea to a distance of 200 nautical miles from ...


2. Mangroves Forest Extent - Protected Area [geodata_1256]
The World Mangrove Atlas is the first significant attempt to provide an overview of the distribution of mangroves worldwide. Mapped data showing the extent of mangroves in over 100 countries have ...


3. Mangroves Forest Extent - Total Area [geodata_1253]
Mangroves are commonly found along sheltered coastlines in the tropics and subtropics where they fulfil important socio-economic and environmental functions. These include the provision of a large ...


4. Length of Coastline [geodata_1088]
The measurement of an irregular and curving feature such as a nation's coastal length is scale-dependent and very difficult to measure. Maps of individual islands for example, frequently show great ...


5. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Elevation Data for the Island Nation of Sri Lanka [Tsunami_122604_SRTM]   PARENT DIF
The topography of the island nation of Sri Lanka is well shown in this color-coded shaded relief map generated with digital elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Two visualization ...


6. Hurricane Rita Disaster Response from the USGS [USGS_EROS_HDDS_RITA]
USGS EROS supported first responders and emergency services working in response to Hurricane Rita. EROS channeled vital imagery to state and local governments, FEMA, and other federal agencies. These ...


7. Hurricane Sandy Pre and Post Storm Data and Imagery from the USGS [USGS_EROS_HDDS_SANDY]
As Hurricane Sandy moved northward along the U.S. Atlantic coast in October 2012, U.S. Geological Survey scientists worked to determine where and how the storm's waves and surge might dramatically ...


8. Hurricane Wilma Disaster Response from the USGS [USGS_EROS_HDDS_WILMA]
USGS EROS supported first responders and emergency services working in response to Hurricane Wilma. EROS channeled vital imagery to state and local governments, FEMA, and other federal agencies. ...


9. Marine Ecosystems Response in the Mediterranean Experiment [MERMEX]
MerMex focus on the understanding of the effects of key natural and anthropogenic forcings on ecosystems (from coastal zones to open-ocean, from pelagos to benthos) and organisms (from viruses to ...


10. United States Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline [ORCA_digital_shore]
NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline is a high-quality, Geographic Information System-ready, general-use digital vector data set originally created by the Strategic Environmental ...


11. Threats to Reefs [geodata_0383]
The Reefs at Risk Indicator of estimated threat to the world?s coral reefs is available as a geographically- referenced data set. The Reefs at Risk Indicator was developed at The World Resources ...


12. GEACEP-ISODYN: Icehouse Earth: Stability Or DYNamism? [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00518]
GEACEP will investigate the relationship between the evolution of Antarctic ice and the changing global environment over the last ~30 million years (My). We will do so through collecting and combining ...


13. GRADES-QWAD: Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciations [GB-NERC-BAS-AEDC-00521]
Current predictions of sea level rise do not correctly quantify contributions from Antarctica. Some sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet are showing considerable rates of change; are these changes a ...


14. Rates of depletion of lubricant and fuel contaminants from Antarctic regions during natural attenuation and remediation procedures [ASAC_2915]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Metadata record for data expected from ASAC Project 2915 See the link below for public details on this project. Petroleum contamination poses a major threat to Antarctic and subantarctic ecosystems ...


15. DISCOVERY-OEM: Ocean Ecosystems and Management [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00513]
Maintaining long-term food security in a changing environment is one of the greatest challenges to the sustainable exploitation of the Earth System, including its oceans. The well publicised collapses ...


16. South Atlantic Climate Change Consortium [SACC]
On 22-24 March 2009 we occupied two hydrographic sections across the eastern mouth of the Magellan Strait and the Le Maire Strait. These data were collected to establish the water mass properties ...


17. Mangroves [geodata_0181]
The World Mangrove Atlas is the first significant attempt to provide an overview of the distribution of mangroves worldwide. Mapped data showing the extent of mangroves in over 100 countries have ...


18. Last of the Wild Project, Version 2, 2005 (LWP-2): Last of the Wild Dataset (Geographic) [CIESIN_SEDAC_LWP2_LW_GEOG]
The Last of the Wild Dataset of the Last of the Wild Project, Version 2, 2005 (LWP-2) is derived from the LWP-2 Human Footprint Dataset. The gridded data are classified according to their raster value ...


19. Indicators of Coastal Water Quality: Change in Chlorophyll-a Concentration 1998-2007 [CIESIN_SEDAC_ICWQ_CCHLOA]
The Change in Chlorophyll-a Concentrations 1998-2007 component of the Indicators of Coastal Water Quality Collection represents a tabular time series of the chlorophyll-a concentrations for each grid ...


20. Low Elevation Coast Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population Estimates, Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP), Alpha Version [CIESIN_SEDAC_GRUMP_LECZ]
The Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Estimates consists of country-level estimates of urban, rural and total population and land area country-wide and in the LECZ, if applicable. Additionally, ...


21. National Aggregates of Geospatial Data Collection: Population, Landscape, And Climate Estimates, Version 2 (PLACE II) [CIESIN_SEDAC_NAGDC_PLACEII]
The Population, Landscape, And Climate Estimates, Version 2 (PLACE II) dataset contains estimates of national-level aggregations of territorial extent and population size by biome, climate zone, coastal ...


22. National Aggregates of Geospatial Data Collection: Population, Landscape, And Climate Estimates, Version 3 (PLACE III) [CIESIN_SEDAC_NAGDC_PLACEIII]
The Population, Landscape, And Climate Estimates, Version 3 (PLACE III) data set contains estimates of national-level aggregations in urban, rural, and total designations of territorial extent and ...


23. Canadian Communities Gallery - Educational Project Showcase [Canada_CCRS_CdnCommAtlas]
The Canadian Communities Gallery (CCGallery) is a service of the Atlas of Canada that provides access to the best and broadest collections of on-line educational ...


24. 1996 Atlantic Tropical Storms: Views from the NOAA Satellites [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00498]
1996 Atlantic Tropical Storms: Views from the NOAA Satellites is a technical report available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Geographic coverage is the north Atlantic Ocean tropical ...


25. American Weather Stories [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00349]
American Weather Stories is a historical publication available at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Stories consist of American weather experinces from the hurricane that threatened Columbus ...


26. Extreme Weather and Climate Events [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00508]
Extreme Weather and Climate Events is a web page at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Extreme Weather and Climate Events web site links to some of the more interesting NCDC web pages. Links ...


27. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Sentinels Mission [ESA_SENTINEL_PLACEHOLDER]
[Text Source: ESA's Earth Observing Missions, http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMTOMASS2G_index_0_m.html ] Based on over 30 years of experience developing and implementing Earth observation satellites, ...


28. Maps Showing the Stratigraphic Framework of South Carolina's Long Bay from Little River to Winyah Bay [USGS_OFR_2004_1013]
South Carolina's Grand Strand is a heavily populated coastal region that supports a large tourism industry. Like most densely developed coastal communities, the potential for property damage and lost ...


29. Northwestern Panhandle of Florida Coastal Classification Maps - St. Andrew Bay Entrance Channel to Perdido Pass [USGS_OFR_2004_1217]
One purpose of the USGS National Assessment of Coastal Change Project is to provide accurate representations of pre-storm ground conditions for areas that are designated high-priority because they ...


30. Weather Data, Forecasts, and Satellite Imagery from the University of Hawaii Meteorology Department [UH_SOEST_METO]
The University of Hawaii School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology Department of Meteorology (UH/SOEST/METO) The UH/SOEST/METO Server provides weather data and forecasts, satellite imagery, and ...


31. NOAA PFEL Global 1-degree Upwelling Index 48N 125W [PFEL_Global1-degreeUpwellingIndex48N125W]
PFEL Coastal Upwelling Indices The frictional stress of equatorward wind on the ocean's surface, in concert with the effect of the earth's rotation, causes water in the surface layer to move away ...


32. UNEP: Estimated contributions to sea-level rise (1993-2003) [UNEP_EstimatedContributionsSeaLevelRise1993-2003]
Estimated contributions to sea-level rise (1993-2003). The two main reasons for sea-level rise are thermal expansion of ocean waters as they warm, and increase in the ocean mass, principally from ...


33. NODC Standard Format NOS Coastal Wave Program (F182) Data (1979-1983) [NODC_f182]
This data type was designed for analyzed wave data originating from the National Ocean Service (NOS) Coastal Wave Program. The data are organized into 3 record types: record type A describes basic ...


34. 1998 Hurricane Mitch Honduras Habitat Data for the Gulf of Fonseca [usgs_nwrc_gulfoffoneseca]
This data set consists of digital data describing wetland and upland habitats in the southern coastal areas of Honduras affected by Hurricane Mitch in October 1998. The data set includes specifically ...


35. 1998 Hurricane Mitch Honduras Habitat Data for the Islas de la Bahia and Northern coastal region. [usgs_nwrc_islasdelabahia]
This data set consists of digital data describing wetland (including seagrass habitat) and upland habitats in the northern coastal areas of Honduras affected by Hurricane Mitch in October 1998. The ...


36. Assessment of Historical Phytoplankton Characteristics and Bloom Phenomena in the New York Harbor Estuarine and New York Bight Ecosystems [HRF_phytoplanktonchar]
The purpose of this study is to compile existing data sets so as to characterize normal and excessive (blooms) phytoplankton conditions and to determine the location, extent, ...


37. Assessment of Historical Phytoplankton Characteristics and Bloom Phenomena in the New York Harbor Estuarine and New York Bight Ecosystems [NYNJHEP_phytoplanktonchar]
The purpose of this study is to compile existing data sets so as to characterize normal and excessive (blooms) phytoplankton conditions and to determine the location, extent, ...


38. Atlas of the Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [ocean_atlas]
Released by the Remote Sensing Team (part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), these detailed maps released in February 2003 focus on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. ...


39. Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Scenario Output Database [CBP_WSM43]
The Watershed model is an application of HSPF (Hydrologic Simulation Program - Fortran ) run on a unix workstation. The model divides the 64,000 square mile Chesapeake Bay drainage basin into 87 model ...


40. Coastal Aerial Photography from the National Ocean Service (NOS) National Geodetic Survey (NGS) available through NOS MapFinder [NOS_MAPFINDER_COASTAL_PHOTO]
Precision aerial photography is collected by the National Ocean Service (NOS) National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Remote Sensing Division for the production of coastal survey maps. The georeferenced, ...


41. Galveston Bay, Texas Habitat Data from NWRC [usgs_nwrc_texaswetlands]
This data set consists of digital data describing wetland and upland habitats in the Galveston Bay and surrounding areas of Texas, in 1979. The data set includes 42 7.5' quadrangles which were digitized ...


42. Gulf of Mexico Coastal Louisiana Habitat Data from NWRC [usgs_nwrc_coastallouisiana]
This data set consists of digital data describing wetland and upland habitats in the coastal or near Gulf Coast areas of Louisiana, in 1988. The data set includes 343 7.5' quadrangles which were digitized ...


43. Hydrographic Surveys [CGS_NCD_HYDROGR_SURV]
Hydrographic surveys are conducted by the National Ocean Service (NOS) to measure water depth. The measurements are used in the production of nautical charts. NOS nautical charts are compiled and ...


44. NWRC Wetlands Habitat Data for Gulf of Mexico Coast [usgs_nwrc_coastalalabama]
This data set consists of digital data describing wetland and upland habitats in the coastal Mobile Bay and nearby Gulf Coast areas of Alabama, in 1956, 1979 and 1988. The data set includes 30 7.5' ...


45. National Wetlands Research Center Habitat Data for Tampa Bay, Florida [usgs_nwrc_tampabay]
This data set consists of digital data describing wetland and upland habitats in Tampa Bay FL., in 1972. The data set includes 27 7.5 quadrangles which were digitized at the U.S. Geological Survey, ...


46. Spatial Extent of Massachusetts Executive Order 181: Barrier Beaches [barb]
This data layer represents the spatial extent of Massachusetts Executive Order 181: Barrier Beaches. An existing spatial data layer that had been created by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst ...


47. The Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics Program and the Coastal Trends Series;Socieoeconomic Data; NOAA/NOS [NOS00040]
The Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics Program was developed to assist decision-makers in assessing the value of recreational resources in the Nation's coastal and ocean areas. The program develops ...


48. 1968 Louisiana Coastal Marsh Vegetative Type Transect Point Dataset [usgs_nwrc_louisianatransect]
This dataset contains a point coverage with an associated database file. The original dataset was collected through visual field observation by Robert Chabreck (Louisiana Cooperative Wildlife Research ...


49. Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act Habitat Data [usgs_nwrc_cwphab]
The Louisiana State Legislature created CWPPRA in order to conserve, restore, create, and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The restoration plans developed persuant to these acts specifically ...


50. Vegetative Transect Lines 1997 [usgs_nwrc_vegtransect]
This data set consists of the vegetative transect lines used in the 1997 Vegetative Type Marsh Map. The data deplicts the length of the marsh type by parish and stewardship. The original data set ...


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