Date (Publication)

2003-01-01

Identifier

5c17c6ac-866c-4747-b5b3-9d6287d5c738

Purpose

The global estuary database is the first to be designed at a global scale and the first to include digitized shape cells for each estuary. The dataset was created by Sea Around Us (http://www.seaaroundus.org/).

Credit

University of British Columbia (Canada)

Thèmes Sextant

• /Human Activities/Economic Equipment and On-land Techniques/Wastewater Networks/Discharge points

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Mission Atlantic - Resources

• Data

Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters

• /Cross-discipline/Fluxes

Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)

• Modelling data

Mission Atlantic - Work Package

• WP4 Benthic Mapping
• WP3 Pelagic Mapping

Mission Atlantic - Case Studies

• Atlantic Ocean

Use limitation

UNEP-WCMC General Data License

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Use constraints

Copyright

Other constraints

For commercial use, please contact business-support@unep-wcmc.org.

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

English

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Reference system identifier

EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4

Geometric object type

Surface

Distribution format

• ESRI Shapefile ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource

Access data on Ocean Data Viewer ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

This is a modified version of the 2003 version of the dataset. See 'Creation

methodology' for details.

File identifier

5c17c6ac-866c-4747-b5b3-9d6287d5c738 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-05-15T22:33:16.005257Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0