Global Coastlines ap (FGDC) / Global Coastlines (ISO)
FGDC Metadata
- Identification Information:
- Native Data Set Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800
- Description:
- Language of Dataset: en
- Abstract: The Global Vector Shoreline dataset is a digital data file at a nominal scale of 1:250,000, containing worldwide coverage of shorelines and international boundaries. The World Vector Shoreline is a standard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly Defense Mapping Agency) product. The Pacific Disaster Center performed significant editing on the original dataset to correct numerous topology errors. The international boundaries were also removed, resulting in a dataset of world shorelines and country boundaries.
- Purpose: The World Vector Shoreline dataset was designed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly Defense Mapping Agency) for use in many applications, including GIS systems.
- Supplemental Information: NOAA/NGDC Coastline Extractor: http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html
- Citation:
- Citation Information:
- Originator: 1) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly Defense Mapping Agency)
- Publication Date: 1990
- Title: Global Coastlines ap
- File or Table Name: world_shorelines
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
- Online Linkage: http://www.pdc.org/geodata/world/world_shorelines.zip
- Edition: 6AEC4B81-B88F-4678-BD11-BF6D42FBFFA1
- Originator: 2) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service/ National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC)
- Other Citation Details: Value Added Scale: 1:250,000
- Time Period of Content:
- Currentness Reference: ground condition
- Time Period Information:
- Single Date/Time:
- Calendar Date: 1990
- Status:
- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency: Unknown
- Spatial Domain:
- Bounding Coordinates:
- West Bounding Coordinate: -179.999989
- East Bounding Coordinate: 179.999989
- North Bounding Coordinate: 83.633286
- South Bounding Coordinate: -79.991817
- Local Bounding Coordinates:
- Left Bounding Coordinate: -20039467.999067
- Right Bounding Coordinate: 20039935.999067
- Bottom Bounding Coordinate: -15491327.991952
- Top Bounding Coordinate: 18385573.999766
- Keywords:
- Theme:
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ESRI standard theme codes are used for relating FGDC metadata to the corresponding ISO categories
- Theme Keyword: oceans
- Theme Keyword: boundaries
- Place:
- Place Keyword Thesaurus: ArcIMS Metadata Server gazetteer
- Place Keyword: Global
- Place Keyword: World
- Access Constraints: None
- Use Constraints: None
- Native Dataset Format: Shapefile
- Point of Contact:
- Contact Information:
- Contact Organization Primary:
- Contact Organization: Pacific Disaster Center
- Contact Person: Director
- Contact Position: Data & Information Resources Division
- Contact Address:
- Address Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 1305 North Holopono Street, Suite 2
- City: Kihei
- State or Province: Hawaii
- Postal Code: 96753
- Country: United States
- Contact Voice Telephone: 808-891-0525
- Contact Facsimile Telephone: 808-891-0526
- Contact Electronic Mail Address: data@pdc.org
- Security Information:
- Security Classification: Unclassified
- Security Handling Description: Grant access to all users.
- Cross Reference:
- Citation Information:
- Title: None
- Data Quality Information:
- Lineage:
- Source Information:
- Source Citation:
- Citation Information:
- Originator: 1) Originator: Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Aerospace Center, Attn: PP, 3200 South Second Street, St. Louis, MO., 63118-3399
- Originator: 2) Processor: Peter W. Sloss, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, Mail Code E/GC, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, Peter.W.Sloss@noaa.gov
- Title: Global Vector Shoreline
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
- Online Linkage: http://www.nga.mil
- Online Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
- Process Step:
- Process Description: Defense Mapping Agency processing: The main source material for the WVS was the DMA's Digital Landmass Blanking (DLMB) data which was derived primarily from the Joint Operations Graphics and coastal nautical charts produced by DMA. The DLMB data consists of a land/water flag file on a 3 by 3 arc-second interval grid. This raster data set was converted into vector form to create the WVS. For areas of the world not covered by the DLMB data (e.g. the Arctic and Antarctic), the shoreline was taken from the best available hard copy sources at a preferred scale of 1:250000. The WVS data are stored in chain-node format. Pacific Disaster Center processing: Data were downloaded in an ArcINFO Generate format from the NOAA/NGDC Coastline Extractor in 37 sections. The files were converted to ArcINFO line coverages using the GENERATE command and were appended to make a world-wide coverage. The data were reprojected from Geographic to Mercator with a central meridian of 150 degrees and the WGS 1984 Datum. Significant editing was performed on the original dataset to correct numerous topology errors. The line coverage was cleaned with a fuzzy tolerance of 30 meters and a dangle tolerance of 100 meters. Where dangling nodes occurred, line segments were connected in order to build polygons. The lines were connected only to fix topology errors and may not be geographically correct. The international boundaries were also removed, resulting in a dataset of world shorelines and country boundaries.
- Attribute Value Accuracy Information:
- Attribute Accuracy Report: None
- Logical Consistency Report: None
- Completeness Report: None
- Positional Accuracy:
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy:
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report: Requirement for this data is that 90% of all identifiable shoreline features be located within 500 meters (2.0mm at 1:250,000) cirular error of their true geographic positions with respect to the preferred datum (WGS 84).
- Spatial Data Organization Information:
- Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information:
- ESRI Terms Description:
- ESRI Feature Type: Simple
- ESRI Feature Geometry: Polygon
- ESRI Topology: FALSE
- ESRI Feature Count: 181148
- Spatial Index: FALSE
- Linear Referencing: FALSE
- SDTS Terms Description:
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count: 181148
- Spatial Reference Information:
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition:
- Coordinate System Name:
- Geographic Coordinate System Name: GCS_WGS_1984
- Projected Coordinate System Name: World_Mercator
- Planar:
- Planar Coordinate Information:
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: coordinate pair
- Planar Distance Units: meters
- Coordinate Representation:
- Abscissa Resolution: 0.065536
- Ordinate Resolution: 0.065536
- Map Projection:
- Map Projection Name: Mercator
- Mercator:
- Standard Parallel: 0.000000
- Longitude of Central Meridian: 150.000000
- False Easting: 0.000000
- False Northing: 0.000000
- Geodetic Model:
- Horizontal Datum Name: D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name: WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis: 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257224
- Entity and Attribute Information:
- Detailed Description:
- Entity Type:
- Entity Type Label: world_shorelines
- Entity Type Type: Feature Class
- Entity Type Count: 181148
- Attribute:
- Attribute Label: FID
- Attribute Alias: FID
- Attribute Type: OID
- Attribute Width: 4
- Attribute Precision: 0
- Attribute Scale: 0
- Attribute Definition: Internal feature number.
- Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
- Attribute Domain Values:
- Unrepresentable Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute:
- Attribute Label: Shape
- Attribute Alias: Shape
- Attribute Type: Geometry
- Attribute Width: 0
- Attribute Precision: 0
- Attribute Scale: 0
- Attribute Definition: Feature geometry.
- Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
- Attribute Domain Values:
- Unrepresentable Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
- Attribute:
- Attribute Label: AREA
- Attribute Alias: AREA
- Attribute Type: Number
- Attribute Width: 9
- Attribute Number of Decimals: 3
- Attribute:
- Attribute Label: PERIMETER
- Attribute Alias: PERIMETER
- Attribute Type: Number
- Attribute Width: 9
- Attribute Number of Decimals: 3
- Attribute:
- Attribute Label: WVS_M150_2
- Attribute Alias: WVS_M150_2
- Attribute Type: Number
- Attribute Width: 9
- Attribute:
- Attribute Label: WVS_M15023
- Attribute Alias: WVS_M15023
- Attribute Type: Number
- Attribute Width: 9
- Distribution Information:
- Resource Description: Downloadable Data
- Standard Order Process:
- Digital Form:
- Digital Transfer Information:
- Transfer Size: 166.574
- Dataset Size: 166.574
- Distributor:
- Contact Information:
- Contact Organization Primary:
- Contact Organization: Pacific Disaster Center
- Contact Person: Director
- Contact Position: Data & Information Resources Division
- Contact Address:
- Address Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 1305 North Holopono Street, Suite 2
- City: Kihei
- State or Province: Hawaii
- Postal Code: 96753
- Country: United States
- Contact Voice Telephone: 808-891-0525
- Contact Facsimile Telephone: 808-891-0526
- Contact Electronic Mail Address: data@pdc.org
- Distribution Liability: None
- Metadata Reference Information:
- Language of Metadata: en
- Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Time Convention: local time
- Metadata Contact:
- Contact Information:
- Contact Organization Primary:
- Contact Person: Director
- Contact Organization: Pacific Disaster Center
- Contact Address:
- Address Type: mailing and physical address
- City: Kihei
- State or Province: Hawaii
- Postal Code: 96753
- Address: 1305 North Holopono Street, Suite 2
- Country: United States
- Contact Voice Telephone: 808-891-0525
- Contact Position: Data & Information Resources Division
- Contact Facsimile Telephone: 808-891-0526
- Contact Electronic Mail Address: data@pdc.org
- Metadata Date: 20081113
- Metadata Review Date: 20040212
- Metadata Security Information:
- Metadata Security Classification: Unclassified
- Metadata Security Handling Description: Grant access to all users.
- Metadata Access Constraints: None
- Metadata Use Constraints: None
- Metadata Extensions:
- Online Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name: ESRI Metadata Profile
ISO Metadata
- Metadata identifier: {6AEC4B81-B88F-4678-BD11-BF6D42FBFFA1}
- Metadata language: English
- Metadata character set: utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format
- Scope of the data described by the metadata: dataset
- Scope name: dataset
- Metadata contact:
- Individual's name: Director
- Organization's name: Pacific Disaster Center
- Contact's position: Data & Information Resources Division
- Contact information:
- Address:
- Delivery point: 1305 North Holopono Street, Suite 2
- City: Kihei
- Administrative area: Hawaii
- Postal code: 96753
- e-mail address: data@pdc.org
- Country: us
- Phone:
- Voice: 808-891-0525
- Fax: 808-891-0526
- Contact's role: publisher
- Last update: 20081113
- Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Version of the metadata standard: DIS_ESRI1.0
- Distribution Information:
- Distributor:
- Transfer options:
- Online source:
- Description: Downloadable Data
- Online location (URL): http://www.pdc.org
- Connection protocol: Hypertext Transfer
- Function performed: offline access
- Transfer size: 166.574
- Medium of distribution:
- Medium name: CD-ROM
- Available format:
- Format name: Shapefile
- Format version: Standard ESRI Shapefile format
- Contact information:
- Individual's name: Director
- Organization's name: Pacific Disaster Center
- Contact's position: Data & Information Resources Division
- Contact information:
- Address:
- Delivery point: 1305 North Holopono Street, Suite 2
- City: Kihei
- Administrative area: Hawaii
- Postal code: 96753
- e-mail address: data@pdc.org
- Country: us
- Phone:
- Voice: 808-891-0525
- Fax: 808-891-0526
- Contact's role: distributor
- Identification Information:
- Processing environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800
- Dataset language: English
- Citation:
- Title: Global Coastlines
- Presentation format: digital map
- Edition: 6AEC4B81-B88F-4678-BD11-BF6D42FBFFA1
- Edition date: 1990
- Reference date:
- Date: 1990
- Type of date: creation
- Party responsible for the resource:
- Organization's name: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Contact's role: originator
- Individual's name: Director
- Contact's position: Aerospace Center, Attn: PP
- Contact information:
- Address:
- Delivery point: 3200 South Secont Street
- City: St. Louis
- Administrative area: MO
- Postal code: 63118-3399
- Country: us
- Party responsible for the resource:
- Organization's name: National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA
- Contact's role: processor
- Individual's name: Peter W. Sloss
- Contact information:
- Address:
- Delivery point: Mail Code E/GC, 325 Broadway
- City: Boulder
- Administrative area: Colorado
- Postal code: 80305-3328
- e-mail address: Peter.W.Sloss@noaa.gov
- Country: us
- Party responsible for the resource:
- Individual's name: Director
- Organization's name: Pacific Disaster Center
- Contact's position: Data & Information Resources Division
- Contact information:
- Address:
- Delivery point: 1305 North Holopono Street, Suite 2
- City: Kihei
- Administrative area: Hawaii
- Postal code: 96753
- e-mail address: data@pdc.org
- Country: us
- Phone:
- Voice: 808-891-0525
- Fax: 808-891-0526
- Contact's role: publisher
- Reference date:
- Date: 1990
- Type of date: publication
- Spatial representation type: vector
- Resource constraints:
- Constraints:
- Limitations of use: None
- Legal constraints:
- Other constraints: None
- Access constraints: other restrictions
- Use constraints: other restrictions
- Security constraints:
- Classification: unclassified
- Keyword Information:
- Keyword Type: Place keywords
- Keywords: World
- Thesaurus name:
- Title: ArcIMS Metadata Server gazetteer
- Other extent information:
- Geographic extent:
- Geographic extent:
- West longitude: -20039467.999067
- East longitude: 20039935.999067
- North latitude: 18385573.999766
- South latitude: -15491327.991952
- Extent contains the resource: yes
- Resource's bounding rectangle:
- West longitude: -179.999989
- East longitude: 179.999989
- North latitude: 83.633286
- South latitude: -79.991817
- Extent contains the resource: yes
- Abstract: The Global Vector Shoreline dataset is a digital data file at a nominal scale of 1:250,000, containing worldwide coverage of shorelines and international boundaries. The World Vector Shoreline is a standard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly Defense Mapping Agency) product. The Pacific Disaster Center performed significant editing on the original dataset to correct numerous topology errors. The international boundaries were also removed, resulting in a dataset of world shorelines and country boundaries.
- Spatial resolution:
- Dataset's scale:
- Scale denominator: 250,000
- Resource maintenance:
- Update frequency: unknown
- Themes or categories of the resource: boundaries
- Themes or categories of the resource: oceans
- Data Quality Information:
- Lineage:
- Lineage statement: Defense Mapping Agency processing: The main source material for the WVS was the DMA's Digital Landmass Blanking (DLMB) data which was derived primarily from the Joint Operations Graphics and coastal nautical charts produced by DMA. The DLMB data consists of a land/water flag file on a 3 by 3 arc-second interval grid. This raster data set was converted into vector form to create the WVS. For areas of the world not covered by the DLMB data (e.g. the Arctic and Antarctic), the shoreline was taken from the best available hard copy sources at a preferred scale of 1:250000. The WVS data are stored in chain-node format. Pacific Disaster Center processing: Data were downloaded in an ArcINFO Generate format from the NOAA/NGDC Coastline Extractor in 37 sections. The files were converted to ArcINFO line coverages using the GENERATE command and were appended to make a world-wide coverage. The data were reprojected from Geographic to Mercator with a central meridian of 150 degrees and the WGS 1984 Datum. Significant editing was performed on the original dataset to correct numerous topology errors. The line coverage was cleaned with a fuzzy tolerance of 30 meters and a dangle tolerance of 100 meters. Where dangling nodes occurred, line segments were connected in order to build polygons. The lines were connected only to fix topology errors and may not be geographically correct. The international boundaries were also removed, resulting in a dataset of world shorelines and country boundaries.
- Scope of quality information:
- Level of the data: dataset
- Spatial Representation Information:
- Spatial Representation - Vector:
- Level of topology for this dataset: geometry only
- Geometric objects:
- Object type: complexes
- Object count: 181148
- Reference System Information:
- Reference system identifier:
- Reference system identifier:
- Identity code: World_Mercator
ESRI Metadata
- Esri:
- Creation Date: 20090918
- Creation Time: 11492800
- Synchronize Once: FALSE
- Synchronization Date: 20040406
- Synchronization Time: 11110500
- Modification Date: 20081113
- Modification Time: 16004600
- Metadata ID: {6AEC4B81-B88F-4678-BD11-BF6D42FBFFA1}
- Published Document ID: {32F5F3B8-1CF1-48C5-9B81-57885C0CA448}
- Published Status: Published