NOS80K_NORTHEAST.SHP: National Ocean Service Coastline for a Part of the Northeastern United States (clipped to the region of the U.S. Geological Field Actiivity 2010-006-FA)

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey, and the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA)
Publication_Date: 1994
Title:
NOS80K_NORTHEAST.SHP: National Ocean Service Coastline for a Part of the Northeastern United States (clipped to the region of the U.S. Geological Field Actiivity 2010-006-FA)
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2011-1039
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage: <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/noaamrdvs.html>
Online_Linkage:
<http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1039/data/basemap/nos80k_northeast.zip>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: V.A. Cross
Originator: J.F. Bratton
Originator: H.A. Michael
Originator: K.D. Kroeger
Originator: A. Green
Originator: E. Bergeron
Publication_Date: 2013
Title:
Continuous Resistivity Profiling and Seismic_Reflection Data Collected in April 2010 from Indian River Bay, Delaware
Edition: 1
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2011-1039
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Other_Citation_Details: 1 DVD
Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1039/>
Description:
Abstract:
NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline is a high-quality, Geographic Information System-ready, general-use digital vector data set containing the coastline of the contiguous United States of America. The shoreline was created from data captured (digitized from scanned images of the master separates of the NOS Charts) from over 270 National Ocean Service Navigation Charts and spans some 80,000 nautical miles at an average map scale of 1:70,000.
This product created by the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of NOAA's Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment comprises over 75,000 nautical miles of coastline (nearly 2.5 million vertices), representing the entire conterminous United States of America. Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and all other interests and territories of the United States are not included in the collection.
The data set is designed for a broad target audience ranging from governmental agencies, universities and other research institutions, to the private sector, and students, as well as any other concern requiring a general purpose digital shoreline layer for GIS and cartographic projects.
Purpose:
The purpose of this dataset is to provide a clipped version of the NOAA medium-resolution shoreline as a basemap data layer for the area of interest.
Supplemental_Information:
Generally, 1:80,000 NOAA coast charts took precedence and were used when available. For areas where 1:80,000 charts were not readily available, charts with the next closest higher scale (e.g., 1:60,000) were used down to the highest scale available. Alternately, if higher scale charts were not available, charts of the closest lower scale (e.g., 1:100,000) were used down to the lowest scale. The digital shoreline for Florida was obtained from the state. This digital file was originally created from NOAA nautical charts and was not recreated by SEA. Generally, for these shoreline sections (EC80_06, GC80_05, and GC80_06), the highest scale charts available were used to digitize the shoreline. The resultant average mapping scale for the entire Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline is approximately 1:70,000. See NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline website for more details on this product: <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/noaamrdvs.html> >
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 1994
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -77.877236
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66.791978
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.459808
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.069236
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Theme_Keyword: NOAA
Theme_Keyword: National Ocean Service
Theme_Keyword: NOS
Theme_Keyword: digital vector shoreline
Theme_Keyword: polygon shapefile
Theme_Keyword: shore
Theme_Keyword: shoreline
Theme_Keyword: coast
Theme_Keyword: coastal features
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries
Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Place_Keyword: North America
Place_Keyword: North Atlantic
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: U.S. East Coast
Place_Keyword: North Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints:
These data are not to be used for navigation purposes. Mariners should refer to the appropriate nautical chart. Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann
Contact_Organization: NOAA/NOS/SEA/ORCA
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: NOAA
Address: N/ORCA1
Address: 9th Floor
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
City: Silver Spring
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20910
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: srohmann@seamail.nos.noaa.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
<http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1039/data/basemap/nos80k_northeast.gif>
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
Thumbnail image of the NOAA medium-resolution coast in the study area.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
Data_Set_Credit:
Please credit National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey, and the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA) as the originator of the dataset.
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4095
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The original NOAA shoreline was clipped to the area of interest. No additional checks on shoreline accuracy were performed.
Completeness_Report:
This dataset supplies the complete shoreline in the area of interest.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
According to NOAA, the data supplied here are a compilation of information collected from some 270+ current or pre-release National Ocean Service (NOS) Navigation Charts. In compiling this product we made no attempt to ascertain the congruency between the charted data and the real world. Our objective was to simply capture the representative coastline as provided to us via the NOS Chart. Every effort was made to capture the shoreline on these charts as faithfully as our skills and technology allowed, and there is every indication that we were successful. In doing so, however, we automatically conveyed the character (all aspects, both good and bad) of those data to our digital product. Because this character may or may not be in agreement with the real world, the user is advised to exercise caution in making any assumptions about the fallibility, or infallibility, of the spatial information supplied here, especially when circumstances warrant a high degree of absolute positional accuracy. Spatial data were derived directly from NOS Navigation Charts, which meet or exceed National Map Accuracy standards (hard copy); the digital data supplied in this compilation, when plotted at scale, should meet or exceed these same cartographic standards.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Scale_Denominator: 80000
Type_of_Source_Media: paper
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Within ArcMap 9.2, a polygon graphic was converted to a polygon shapefile using XToolsPro v. 5.2 using the Feature Conversion - Graphics to Feature tool. This new polygon will be used to clip the original NOAA 80K shoreline.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: graphic
Process_Date: 2010
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: temprect.shp
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Within ArcMap 9.2 - ArcToolbox - Analysis Tools - Extract - Clip. The original NOAA polygon coastline shapefile was clipped with the new polygon shapefile. No XY tolerance was set. (The original NOAA polygon coastline was downloaded from the internet in 2002.)
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: temprect.shp
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: mergefinal.shp
Process_Date: 2010
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: clipnoaashore.shp
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 8543
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001
Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Altitude_System_Definition:
Altitude_Datum_Name: National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
Altitude_Encoding_Method:
Horizontal positions of the shoreline are based on a vertical tidal datum. This is typically Mean Lower Low Water but can vary. Consult the appropriate charts for additional information.
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: nos80k_northeast
Entity_Type_Definition: shapefile attribute table.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
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_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ID
Attribute_Definition:
Attribute included in the original dataset without a definition.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Unknown.
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Unknown definition or units.
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Steve Rohm
Contact_Organization: NOAA, N/ORCA1
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: NOAA
Address: N/ORCA1
Address: 9th Floor
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
City: Silver Spring
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20910
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rohmann@seamail.nos.noaa.gov
Resource_Description:
Downloadable Data: Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline [OL 72 18.7 -66.5 -168]
Distribution_Liability:
Although this data has been processed successfully on a computer system at NOAA, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by NOAA regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. NOAA warrants the delivery of this product in computer-readable format, and will offer a replacement copy of the product when the product is determined unreadable by computer input peripherals, or when the physical medium is delivered in damaged condition.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: WinZip
Format_Version_Number: 9.0
Format_Information_Content:
This zip file contains the polygon shapefile as well as the associated metadata files.
Transfer_Size: 6.1 MB
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
<http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1039/data/basemap/nos80k_northeast.zip>
Fees: None.
Technical_Prerequisites:
This zip file contains data available in Esri polygon shapefile format. The user must have software capable of uncompressing the zip file and reading/displaying the shapefile.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20130619
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Extensions:
Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile
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