CARIB_WVS_GEO_WGS84 - World Vector Shoreline of the Caribbean Sea region

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Defense Mapping Agency

Publication_Date: Unknown

Title:

CARIB_WVS_GEO_WGS84 - World Vector Shoreline of the Caribbean Sea region

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Online_Linkage:

<http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/carib/wvs/carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip>

Description:

Abstract:

The World Vector Shoreline (WVS) dataset was developed by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (formerly the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency - DMA) as a digital data file, at a nominal scale of 1:250,000 and referenced to the World Geodetic System (WGS-84) datum. The WVS is divided into ten ocean basin area files. This data layer is a subset of the North America region and provides a shapefile of the islands of the Caribbean Sea region.

Purpose:

This ArcView shapefile may be used as a general basemap data layer to illustrate the islands of the Caribbean Sea region and may be utilized in any Geographic Information System (GIS).

Supplemental_Information:

This version of the data set does not include all the features (such as lakes, rivers, breakwaters, glaciers, international boundaries, country names, etc.) that DMA has in their original data set (WDBII).

Shoreline based on Mean High Water (MHW).

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: unknown

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.732369

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -59.420692

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 27.274625

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 10.041227

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General

Theme_Keyword: World Vector Shoreline

Theme_Keyword: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Theme_Keyword: National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Theme_Keyword: Defense Mapping Agency

Theme_Keyword: coastlines

Theme_Keyword: digital vector data

Theme_Keyword: ArcView

Theme_Keyword: shapefile

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General

Place_Keyword: Caribbean Sea

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints:

These data are NOT to be used for navigation purposes.

Public domain data from the U.S. government is freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the United States Geological Survey as the originator of this dataset.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84

Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Overview showing the extent and coverage of the data layer.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF

Data_Set_Credit:

Please recognize the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) as the originator of the source data.

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.2.0.700

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Attributes were labelled by visual identification. Country name, sovereign and island name were identified from various map sources. The island attribute is incomplete.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Completeness_Report:

This is a subset of the World Vector Shorline north America coastline. The islands of the Caribbean Sea region were extracted to create an ArcView shapefile format data layer for use in GIS applications.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Feature specification that 90% of all identifiable shoreline features should be located within 500 metres (i.e. 2mm at 1:250,000) of their true geographic position with respect to the WGS-84 datum.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: International Hydrographic Review

Publication_Date: 1990

Publication_Time: Unknown

Title: World Vector Shoreline for North America

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Source_Scale_Denominator: 250000

Type_of_Source_Media: disc

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl

Source_Contribution:

The main source material for the WVS was DMA's Digital Landmass Blanking (DLMB) database which was derived primarily from the Joint Operations Graphics and coastal nautical charts produced by DMA. The DLMB data consisted of a land/water flag file on a 3 by 3 arc-second interval geographic grid. This raster database was converted into vector form to create WVS and explains the 3 arc-second stepping interval apparent in the coastline when plotted out at high scale. For areas of the world not covered by the DLMB database, the shoreline was taken from the best available hard copy sources at a preferred scale of 1:250,000 (or up to 1:125,000 where the source data allowed).

The DMA WVS datasets were compiled into separate 'coast' format data files for use with the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program cartographic plotting program MAPGEN during the 1980's. These 'coast' format files were the source to retrieve the WVS datasets and is the result of what is presented here.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Program 'getcoast' was used to extract the vector coastline information

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl.cdr

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl.cdt

Process_Date: 20011128

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_natl.txt

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Computer Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The vector text file was imported into a vector segment in the PCI database and verified

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl.txt

Process_Date: 20011128

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: na.pix

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Computer Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The WVS data for the Caribbean region was extracted from the North America region and stored in a new vector segment of the PCI file. The working file was copied and renamed for better identification.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: na.pix

Process_Date: 20040322

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib.pix

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Computer Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The vector data was checked to insure closed polygons for all the islands. Attribute fields were added. The final vector segment was exported from the PCI file.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: carib.pix

Process_Date: 20040323

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.dbf

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Computer Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Created a 'prj' file for the data layer. The data layer was visually checked in ArcView and ArcGIS. Polygons were processed to remove dangles and to insure closure. Attributes were checked and corrected for misspellings.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.dbf

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx

Process_Date: 20040328

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.dbf

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.prj

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.

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: 5736

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: WGS_1984

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224

Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Depth_System_Definition:

Depth_Datum_Name: Mean high water

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: carib_wvs_geo_wgs84

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: COUNTRY

Attribute_Definition: Country Name

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SOVEREIGN

Attribute_Definition: Governing Country

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ISLAND

Attribute_Definition: Island name

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Overview_Description:

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

Resource_Description:

Downloadable Data: World Vector Shoreline (WVS) for the Caribbean Sea region - carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip

Distribution_Liability:

Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials.

Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Shapefile

Format_Version_Number: ArcView 3.2

File_Decompression_Technique: zip

Transfer_Size: 5.088

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/carib/wvs/carib_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip>

Fees: none

Technical_Prerequisites:

The data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS® or ArcView® 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, is available from ESRI at www.esri.com.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20040419

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich

Contact_Position: Computer Specialist, GIS Coordinator

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

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