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Mapping and Oceanographic Data

• TABS (Texas Automated Buoy System

• ARDB (Arctic Runoff Data Base)
• Arctic Rivers GIS Dataset
• Water Balance in Rivers
• USGS Real-Time Water Data

• Digital Bathymetry for the Gulf of Maine
  "The objective here was to construct a 15 arc second (~0.5 km) and 30 arc second (~1.0 km) bathymetric grids for the Gulf of Maine (Longitude = 71.5 - 63 W, Latitude = 39.5 - 46 N). In addition to the grids themselves, valuable ancillary products such as sounding data with obvious bad points removed, digital bathymetric contour lines and shaded-relief maps were generated."

• NOS Mapfinder
  "The NOS MapFinder service provides "one stop shopping" for images and data from a number of National Ocean Service (NOS) offices. The cornerstone of NOS MapFinder is a robust set of products available directly from the Web. These products arexi offered by theme (e.g., coastal aerial photography, low resolution nautical charts,xi coastal survey maps, environmental sensitivity index atlases, hydrographic survey outlines, historical maps, water level station data, geodetic control points, and estuarine bathymetry data). Products are accessed through a spatial inventory that locates and describes all data that NOS possesses for each theme."
  • Coastal Photography
    "NOS MapFinder contains a detailed index of every photo shot in recent years. Because the photographs were shot as stereo pairs, which have a high degree of overlap betweenxi adjacent photographs, only every other photo is necessary to create a seamless photographic coverage within each survey. ... Although the original images can support scanning at much greater resolutions, NOS MapFinder photographs are scanned directly from the negatives at 100 dots per inch. Photos will be one of the four types of photography shot by NOAA. Photography types are color, color infrared, black & white, and black & white infrared. ... The index will be expanded regularly in reverse temporal order moving through the 90's and 80's. About 10,000 on-line photographs will be added to NOS MapFinder every year."
  • Coastal Survey Maps
    "1,500 Coastal Survey maps for the East and Gulf Coasts are available as raster GIF images (100 dpi). Approximately 1,500 additional surveys which cover the U.S. Great Lakes, Pacific Coast, and its possessions, except Alaska for which surveys never existed, will be added to MapFinder as they become available in digital form."
  • Environmental Sensitivity Index Maps
    "ESI maps will be available through NOS MapFinder as completed ESI atlases. Atlases available in NOS MapFinder cover a majority of the East Coast, California, and a few in the Gulf of Mexico. Other state atlases are will be added as they are converted to electronic format."
  • Estuarine Bathymetry
    "Five individual product types are available from MapFinder's Estuarine Bathymetry site for 71 selected estuaries: (1) 30m and 3 arc second DEM bathymetry data sets; (2) sounding capture images; (3) DEM index maps; (4) metadata; and (5) supporting information."
  • Historic Maps and Charts
    "In NOS MapFinder, users can access the entire Historical Map & Chart Collection through a geo-spatial index; do specialized searches by geographic coordinates, date, and scale; and access a 100 dpi thumbnail file (gif) and a 300 dpi (tiff) high resolution files for each historical document. Historical maps and charts are available for most coastal areas of the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Antarctica. The Great Lakes are excluded."

• CEDRS (Coastal Engineering Data Retrieval System)
  "The CEDRS database for the coastline of the United States assists the coastal engineer with the following data: winds, waves and water levels. Data are organized as files in directories linked to locations. The hierarchy is by water body, data type and station. There may be various types of data within a water body."

• CDIP (Coastal Data Information Program)
• NOAA Digital Shoreline of the United States
• NGDC Bathymetry, Topography and Relief
• NOAA Charting and Navigation
  • Electronic Navigational Charts
• Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB)
  • Gulf of Maine
• Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project
  "GLOBE is an internationally designed, developed, and independently peer-reviewed global digital elevation model (DEM), at a latitude-longitude grid spacing of 30 arc-seconds (30")."
• GTOPO30
  "GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)."
• HYDRO1k
  "HYDRO1k is a geographic database developed to provide comprehensive and consistent global coverage of topographically derived data sets, including streams, drainage basins and ancillary layers derived from the USGS' 30 arc-second digital elevation model of the world (GTOPO30)."
• SRTM
  "The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data products result from a collaborative mission by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the German space agency (DLR) and Italian space agency (ASI), to generate a near-global digital elevation model (DEM) of the Earth using radar interferometry. The SRTM-1 (1 arc-second) and SRTM-3 (3 arc-second) digital elevation models are being developed from the SRTM C-band radar observations for selected regions."
• GSHHS - A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database
  "GSHHS is a high-resolution shoreline data set amalgamated from two data bases in the public domain. The data have undergone extensive processing and are free of internal inconsistencies such as erratic points and crossing segments. The shorelines are constructed entirely from hierarchically arranged closed polygons. The data can be used to simplify data searches and data selections, or to study the statistical characteristics of shorelines and land-masses. It comes with access software and routines to facilitate decimation based on a standard line-reduction algorithm."
• NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline
  "Compiled from hundreds of NOAA coast charts, this product 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."
• Digital Shoreline of the United States
• Coastline Extractor

• NOAA Shoreline Terms
• WES Glossary of Coastal Terminology
• SWCES Glossary of Coastal Terminology
• Glossary of Coastal Engineering Terms

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