Name: Marine_Regions_web_services
URL: http://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/MarineRegions/wms
Abstract: A compliant implementation of OGC WMS.
Keywords:
Contact: gridanode
This Service contains the following layers
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Marineregions: the intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO areas | The maritime boundaries provide a useful tool to limit national marine areas, but do not include information on marine regional and sub regional seas. This hampers the usage of these boundaries for implementing nature conservation strategies or analyzing marine biogeographic patterns. For example, a species occurring in the German EEZ can live in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea or Kattegat area. Each of these different marine areas has very distinct hydrological, oceanographic and ecological conditions. Therefore, by combining the information on regional seas and national maritime boundaries, we can include both a environmental and managerial factor. We propose to overlay the information from the maritime boundaries (the Exclusive Economic Zones) with the IHO Sea Areas (IHO, 1953). This map including the global oceans and seas, has been drafted for hydrographic purposes, but also gives an unequivocal and acceptable distinction of the regional seas and oceans from an oceanographic point of view. The combination of these two boundaries allows us for example to create national regional sea areas for the global ocean. |
| Marineregions: the intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO areas (v3) | The maritime boundaries provide a useful tool to limit national marine areas, but do not include information on marine regional and sub regional seas. This hampers the usage of these boundaries for implementing nature conservation strategies or analyzing marine biogeographic patterns. For example, a species occurring in the German EEZ can live in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea or Kattegat area. Each of these different marine areas has very distinct hydrological, oceanographic and ecological conditions. Therefore, by combining the information on regional seas and national maritime boundaries, we can include both a environmental and managerial factor. We propose to overlay the information from the maritime boundaries (the Exclusive Economic Zones) with the IHO Sea Areas (IHO, 1953). This map including the global oceans and seas, has been drafted for hydrographic purposes, but also gives an unequivocal and acceptable distinction of the regional seas and oceans from an oceanographic point of view. The combination of these two boundaries allows us for example to create national regional sea areas for the global ocean. |
| Maritime boundaries V10 | Version 10 of the Maritime Boundaries from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Boundariess have been built using information about treaties between coastal countries. When treaties are not available, median lines have been calculated. This dataset also contains delimitation of disputed boundaries and joint regimes. |
| Archipelagic Waters (V2) | Version 2 of the Archipelagic Waters from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Archipelagic Waters are waters falling within archipelagic baselines. |
| Contiguous Zones (24 NM) V2 | Version 2 of the Contiguous Zones from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. The Contiguous Zone is a band of water extending from the outer edge of the territorial sea to up to 24 nautical miles (44.4 km; 27.6 mi) from the baseline. |
| Territorial Seas (12 NM) V2 | Version 2 of the Territorial Seas from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Territorial seas are a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. |
| Exclusive Economic Zones (200 NM) V10 | Version 10 of the Exclusive Economic Zones from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone extending from a state's coast or baseline over which the state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. Generally a state's EEZ extends 200 nautical miles out from its coast, except where resulting points would be closer to another country. This dataset also contains delimitation of disputed areas and joint regimes. |
| Cross dateline features (polygons) | Not provided |
| Continental margins between 140m and 3500m depth (IFREMER - COMARGE, 2009) | This shapefile has been prepared in the framework of COMARGE, one of the field project of the Census of Marine Life. It is intended to represent continental margins worldwide, with the exclusion of the continental shelf. The continental margins have been defined based on bathymetry and expert opinion. The upper margin of the boundary has been set at 140 m depth, which is the average depth of the shelf break, except in Antarctica where the shelf break goes deeper and the upper boundary has been set up at 500 m. The lower boundary has been set at 3500 m depth. Both isobaths were extracted from S2004 Bathymetry (a global bathymetry at 1 arc-minute resolution). The upper and lower boundaries were manually edited to follow the contour of continental margins in particular cases. |
| Coasts Subnational Level (20150814) | Created by VLIZ, based on countries, GADM, NUTS, Wikipedia, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Topographic map, ... |
| Coasts per ocean (20150814) | Not provided |
| Bras d'Or Lake Biosphere Reserve | What is the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere Reserve? It is a UNESCO designated area defined by the watershed of the Bras d'Or lake. It is Canada's 16th biosphere. Biosphere reserves are special places around the world where people are trying to live more sustainably – that means 4 things: a healthy environment a healthy economy a healthy society a healthy culture The Bras d'Or Lake Biosphere Reserve Association is a group of volunteers who have worked to have the Bras d’Or Lake and its watershed designated as a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve. We now oversee the activities of the Biosphere Reserve. We are a registered society in the province of Nova Scotia. 532 Chebucto St. P.O. Box 711 Baddeck, NS B0E 1B0 Email: contact@blbra.ca Tel: (902) 674-2578 Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association |
| Arctic Marine Areas | There are many ways to divide the Arctic marine region—by ecosystem/ecological characteristics, by administrative criteria, or by some combination of the two. However, effective monitoring of biodiversity requires that an ecosystem-based approach be used for choosing areas. http://geo.abds.is/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/dcd5c12f-3acb-4101-8e1a-bba0aec50582 |
| ETOPO1 global relief model (ice surface) | Not provided |
| ETOPO1 global relief model (bedrock) | Not provided |
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