Additional information about the field activities from which this data set was derived are available online at
Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in ArcInfo format, this metadata file may include some ArcInfo-specific terminology.
Waltenberger, Ben, 2001, Polygon coverage SCAMPA, boundaries of Proposed marine reserves in the area of the northern Channel Islands:.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
- <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1170/catalog.html>
- <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1170/basemaps/scampa.tgz>
Cochrane, Guy R. , Conrad, James E. , Reid, Jane A. , Fangman, Sarah, and Golden, Nadine, 2005, Nearshore Benthic Habitat GIS for the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Southern California State Fisheries Reserves, Volume II Edition: 1.0: Open-File Report USGS OFR 2005-1170, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Western Coastal and Marine Geology, Santa Cruz, CA.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
The map projection used is NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N.
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest .000256
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest .000256
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983.
The ellipsoid used is Geodetic ReferenceSystem 80.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.2572222.
SCAMPA.PAT:
COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME
1 AREA 4 12 F 3
5 PERIMETER 4 12 F 3
9 SCAMPA# 4 5 B -
13 SCAMPA-ID 4 5 B -
SCAMPA.AAT:
COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME
1 FNODE# 4 5 B -
5 TNODE# 4 5 B -
9 LPOLY# 4 5 B -
13 RPOLY# 4 5 B -
17 LENGTH 4 12 F 3
21 SCAMPA# 4 5 B -
25 SCAMPA-ID 4 5 B -
29 ID 8 8 F 0
37 NAME 16 16 C -
53 CLASS 20 20 C -
73 COMMERCIAL 20 20 C -
93 RECREATION 20 20 C -
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These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software to display geologic and oceanographic information. Supplemental_Information: Additional information about the field activities from which this data set was derived are available online at area of the northern Channel Islands by Ben Waltenberger. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in ArcInfo format, this metadata file may include some ArcInfo-specific terminology.
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Polygon and chain-node topology present.
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- Use_Constraints: None
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