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Polygons of Global Undersea Features for Geographic Searches

By Stephen R. Hartwell, Dana K. Wingfield, Alan O. Allwardt, Frances L. Lightsom, and Florence L. Wong

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A shapefile of 311 undersea features from all major oceans and seas has been created as an aid for retrieving georeferenced information resources. Geospatial information systems with the capability to search user-defined, polygonal geographic areas will be able to utilize this shapefile or secondary products derived from it, such as linked data based on well-known text representations of the individual polygons within the shapefile. Version 1.1 of this report also includes a linked data representation of 299 of these features and their spatial extents.

First posted March 24, 2014

Revised June 25, 2018

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Suggested citation:

Hartwell, S.R., Wingfield, D.K., Allwardt, A.O., Lightsom, F.L., and Wong, F.L., 2018, Polygons of global undersea features for geographic searches (ver. 1.1, June 2018): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1040, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141040.

 

ISSN 2331–1258 (online)


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