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Baghdad Airports, Polygons
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- LeadDog Consulting, LLC.
- Publication Date
- [2003]
- Title
- Baghdad Airports, Polygons
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-bagh-airprt
- Abstract
- This polygon layer depicts two airports or airfields adjacent to Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq: Baghdad International Airport and the Rasheed Airbase. Baghdad International Airport (BIA), formerly known as Saddam International Airport is located approximately 16 kilometers west of Baghdad. The airfield is a joint civil-military airport, with a civil international terminal on one side and a smaller military ramp on the other. The airport is served by a Class I runway 13,000 feet long and a second runway on the military side of the airfield measuring 8,800 feet. The BIA was extensively damaged by bombing and active military engagements during the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq and Baghdad during March and April, 2003. On April 4, 2003 the airport was captured and renamed 'Baghdad International Airport' by the U.S. Central Command. Military flights resumed in July, 2003. In June, 2004, control of the airport's 35 acres of land as well as its 40 service buildings was transferred from U.S. led military forces to the newly-constituted Iraqi authorities. Small portions of the airport area and environs continue to be occupied by coalition forces under an agreement reached with the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation to allow access for military aircraft. Rasheed Airbase / Al-Rashid Military Camp is located approximately 11 kilometers southeast of downtown Baghdad. The airbase is served by a 8,300 foot long runway.
- Purpose
- This layer is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production. This layer will provide a basemap for layers related to socio-economic and political anaylsis, statistical enumeration and analysis, or to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. More advanced user applications may focus on urban and rural land use planning, infrastructure or economic analysis and related areas including defining boundaries, managing assets and facilities, integrating attribute databases with geographic features, spatial analysis, and presentation output. The dataset originator (LeadDog Consulting, LLC.) states that their product is designed, "...for the vehicle tracking and routing industry. Designed to help post-war companies track their assets."
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 20030429
- Bounding Box
- West
- 44.211879
- East
- 44.504183
- North
- 33.290010
- South
- 33.238912
- ISO Topic Category
- transportation
- Theme Keyword
- Municipal
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- HGL Category Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
- Airports
- Air bases
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Place Keyword
- Baghdad
- Iraq
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GNS
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- Access is granted to licensee (Harvard University) only. Available only to Harvard University affiliates. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational non-commercial use only. Harvard University makes no claims, no representations, and no warranties, express or implied, concerning the validity (express or implied), the reliability or the accuracy of the GIS data and GIS data products furnished, including the implied validity of any uses of such data.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- LeadDog Consulting, LLC
- Delivery Point
- 1462 Center Rd.
- City
- Corinth
- State
- VT
- Postal Code
- 05039
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 888-750-0309
- Contact Telephone
- 802-439-5284 (International callers)
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 888-750-0309
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Source
- Title
- United States and Russian military maps.
- Source Scale Denominator
- 40,000
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Source Currentness Reference
- Unknown (pre-2003)
- Contribution
- Vector data derived from maps
- Source
- Title
- United States and Russian military maps
- Source Scale Denominator
- 25,000
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Source Currentness Reference
- Unknown (pre-2003)
- Contribution
- Vector data derived from maps
- 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
- 29
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- WGS84
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- Baghdad Aiports
- Entity Type Definition
- Polygons represent airport features
- Entity Type Definition Source
- HGL
- Attributes
- ADMAPKEY
- Feature identifier
- Definition Source
- Assigned
- NAME
- Feature Name
- Definition Source
- LeadDog
- CITY
- Name of city where feature is located in or near.
- Definition Source
- LeadDog
- COUNTRY
- Name of country where feature is located
- Definition Source
- LeadDog
- SHAPE
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.AREA
- Feature area measured in square coverage units
- Definition Source
- Computed
- SHAPE.LEN
- Polyline length measured in coverage units
- Definition Source
- Computed
- SHAPE.FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20041213
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Person
- Geospatial Resources Cataloger
- Contact Address
- Address
- Harvard University Library
- Address
- Office For Information Systems
- Address
- 1280 Massachusetts Avenue
- City
- Cambridge
- State or Province
- MA.
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 617-495-2417
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 617-496-0440
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
- Hours of Service
- Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile
