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 Publication_Time: Unknown Title: NOS80K: National Ocean Service Coastline of the Northeastern United States Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Silver Spring, MD Publisher: NOAA/NOS/ORCA/SEA Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1004/data/basemaps/nos80k/nos80k.zip Online_Linkage: http://coastalgeospatial.noaa.gov/shoreline.html Online_Linkage: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/coastlines/nos80k/allus80k.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: L.J. Poppe Originator: K.Y. McMullen Originator: D.S. Foster Originator: D.S. Blackwood Originator: S.J. Williams Originator: S.D. Ackerman Originator: S.R. Barnum Originator: R.T. Brennan Publication_Date: 2008 Title: Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processes in the Vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2008-1004 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Other_Citation_Details: 1 DVD-ROM Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1004/ 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: Because the ALLUS80K provides a higher detail of coastal inlets and waterways, this data layer was added to the GIS as a basemap for overlaying the surficial sediment data archived in this report. This data layer is a subset of the complete ALLUS80k coastline and shapefile and has been clipped to a portion of the east coast. 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., 1:60,0000) 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: 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: NOAA Theme_Keyword: Digital Vector Shoreline Theme_Keyword: ESRI shapefile Theme_Keyword: Digital Geographic Boundaries Theme_Keyword: shore Theme_Keyword: shoreline Theme_Keyword: coast Theme_Keyword: coastal features Theme_Keyword: OFR 2008-1004 Theme_Keyword: NOAA Survey H11077 Theme_Keyword: H11077 Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Theme_Keyword: Open-File Report 2008-1004 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal Theme_Keyword: oceans Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: continental US Place_Keyword: conterminous US 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/2008/1004/data/basemaps/nos80k/nos80k.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Overview showing the extent of the clipped ALLUS80K shapefile (NOS80k) for the GIS project 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: Digital files are available in two general formats (.BNA, and .GEN). There is 100% redundancy between these two formats. The digital files contain no point, polygon, regional, or thematic associations. Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: L.J. Poppe Originator: V.F. Paskevich Originator: S.J. Williams Originator: M.E. Hastings Originator: J.T. Kelley Originator: D.F. Belknap Originator: L.G. Ward Originator: D.M. FitzGerald Originator: P.F. Larsen Publication_Date: 2003 Title: Surficial Sediment Data from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Vicinity: a GIS Compilation Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 03-001 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Other_Citation_Details: 1 CD-ROM Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: 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 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 to this end. However, in doing so, we automatically conveyed the character (all aspects, both good and bad) of those data to our digital product. A character which may or may not be in agreement with the real world. Because of this, 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 National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. The NOS Chart Products meet or exceed National Map Accuracy standards (hard copy); the digital data supplied in this compilation should, when plotted at scale, meet or exceed these same cartographic standards. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Scale_Denominator: 80000 Type_of_Source_Media: paper Process_Step: Process_Description: The complete ALLUS80K shapefile was clipped to the GIS project extent. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: allus80k.dbf Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: allus80k.shp Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: allus80k.shx Process_Date: 20021106 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nos80k.dbf Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nos80k.shp Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nos80k.shx Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@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: 0.000000 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000 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: Mean Lower Low Water Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: nos80k.dbf Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute Table Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None 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 Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann 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: ESRI Shapefile Format_Version_Number: ArcView 3.2 Format_Specification: ESRI polygon shapefile Format_Information_Content: The three files (nos80k.dbf, nos80k.shp, nos80k.shx) that comprise the ESRI shapefile, 'prj' and 'avl' files, browse graphic and four versions of the metadata. File_Decompression_Technique: zip Transfer_Size: 38.544 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1004/data/basemaps/nos80k/nos80k.zip Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1004/html/catalog.html Access_Instructions: Data are downloadable via the World Wide Web (WWW). Offline_Option: Offline_Media: DVD-ROM Recording_Capacity: Recording_Density: 4.7 Recording_Density_Units: Gbyte Recording_Format: UDF Technical_Prerequisites: The data is available in ArcView shapefile format. The user must have ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20080331 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Larry Poppe Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2314 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lpoppe@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_Access_Constraints: None Metadata_Use_Constraints: None Metadata_Extensions: Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile