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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Exclusive Economic Zones for the continental United States
- 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
- United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Coast Survey.
- Originator
- Harvard University. Center for the Environment.
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Title
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Exclusive Economic Zones for the continental United States
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Cambridge, MA
- Publisher
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-noaauseez
- Abstract
- This datalayer is polygon shapefile representing the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the continental United States as defined by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey. It was derived from NOAA polyline datasets representing the EEZ boundary for the East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf of Mexico. The Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 established a fishery conservation zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States, effective March 1, 1977. The outer boundary of the zone is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200-nautical miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. The EEZ was established by Presidential Proclamation, effective March 10, 1983. For information about other U.S. maritime boundaries, please go to http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/mbound.htm.
- Purpose
- This data set was created for use in GIS analyses that require polygonal topology. 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 demographics, urban and rural land use planning and related areas including defining boundaries, managing assets and facilities, integrating attribute databases with geographic features, spatial analysis, and presentation output.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 19830310
- Bounding Box
- West
- -129.163506
- East
- -65.699722
- North
- 48.506111
- South
- 23.817500
- Theme Keyword
- Economic zones (Law of the sea)
- Territorial waters
- Boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- planningCadastre
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only. Users must assume responsibility to determine the appropriate use of this data set. The digital maritime limits are not to be used for a LEGAL definition. The legal definition still remains the depiction on NOAA's nautical charts. Please contact the Chief Geographer for more detailed information if required.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Person
- Jeff Bielicki
- Delivery Point
- HUCE
- Delivery Point
- Harvard University Center for the Environment
- Delivery Point
- Geological Museum, 3rd Floor
- Delivery Point
- 24 Oxford Street
- City
- Cambridge
- State
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- (617) 496-6881
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- jeffrey_bielicki@ksgphd.harvard.edu
- Credit
- Office of Coast Survey, NOAA Harvard University Center for the Environment
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- The points that were generated from the baseline were created by a computer program which doesn't distinguish between East and West longitude. The longitudes in these files are measured West from Greenwich (even past the 180th meridian) unless specifically stated as "E." This is the convention for precise geodetic computations at the National Ocean Service (NOS) and these coordinates were computed on the North American Datum of 1927.
- Logical Consistency Report
- None
- Completeness Report
- This file contains the EEZ for the East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf of Mexico of the Continental US. It does not include information on Alaska, Hawaii or other areas under US jurisdiction.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- Office of Coast Survey
- Publication Date
- 19950823
- Title
- United States Exclusive Economic Zone - East Coast
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Silver Spring, MD
- Publisher
- NOAA, Office of Coast Survey
- Online Linkage
- http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/eez.htm
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19830310
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Contribution
- Source data / East Coast
- Source
- Originator
- Office of Coast Survey, NOAA
- Publication Date
- 19950823
- Title
- United States Exclusive Economic Zone - West Coast
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Silver Spring, MD
- Publisher
- NOAA, Office of Coast Survey
- Online Linkage
- http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/eez.htm
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19830310
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Contribution
- Source data / West Coast
- Source
- Originator
- Office of Coast Survey, NOAA
- Publication Date
- 19950823
- Title
- United States Exclusive Economic Zone - Gulf of Mexico
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Silver Spring, MD
- Publisher
- NOAA, Office of Coast Survey
- Online Linkage
- http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/eez.htm
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19830310
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Source
- Originator
- United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- Publication Date
- 2003
- Title
- Global GIS : Country political boundaries
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Collection Title
- Global GIS : global coverage
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- [Alexandria, VA]
- Publisher
- American Geological Institute
- Source Scale Denominator
- 1000000
- Type of Source Media
- DVD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2003
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- 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
- 2
- 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
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Vertical Coordinate System Definition
- Altitude System Definition
- Altitude Datum Name
- Unknown
- Altitude Resolution
- 1.000000
- Altitude Distance Units
- Unknown
- Altitude Encoding Method
- Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- NOAA EEZ - Continental U.S.
- Entity Type Definition
- Exclusive Economic Zone features for continental U.S.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- None
- Attributes
- SOURCE
- Source of location information (Text.)
- Definition Source
- NOAA
- OBJECTID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.AREA
- Area in units squared (Positive real numbers that are automatically generated)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.LEN
- Length of feature in internal units (Positive real numbers that are automatically generated)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SHAPE
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- http://hgl.harvard.edu/
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20060314
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Position
- 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
