Abstract:
High resolution (Scale0) polygon dataset of the Antarctic Coastline. A compilation of source data from eleven national mapping agencies at data scales no larger than 1:200,000/1:250:000. Polygon dataset was originally published in tiled Coverage format. Data has since been converted and merged to a single dataset and exported to shapefile and geopackage formats. Scale0 is the highest resolution that was produced.
Each polygon has a surface attribute (CST00SRF) indicating the type of feature it represents, ie. ice shelf, ice tongue, land, ocean and rumple.
For information on the source of the polygon delineations, refer to coincident features in the polyline dataset, Scale0 vector polylines of the Antarctic coastline v5.0.
Revisions for version 5.0 were carried out and managed by the British Antarctic Survey and funded by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Keywords:
Antarctic Digital Database, Antarctica, Coastline, Grounding line, Land Cover, Land Use, Topographic mapping
Cooper, P., Fox, A., & Cook, A. (2010). Scale0 vector polygon of the Antarctic coastline - VERSION 5.0 (Version 5.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/ea6d7641-82c0-4d0e-94d8-110c397fa988
| Access Constraints: | None |
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| Use Constraints: | This information is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). To view this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Creation Date: | 2024-09-16 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Planned |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | PDC BAS |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Paul Cooper |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Adrian J Fox |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Alison J Cook |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
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| Quality: | Scale0 is the highest resolution that was produced. | |
| Lineage: | Compiled using data from eleven national mapping agencies at data scales no larger than 1:200,000/1:250:000. Dataset was originally published in tiled Coverage format. Data has now been merged to a single dataset using ArcMap v10.8 and exported to shapefile and geopackage formats. A number of slithers were removed from the merged data where source tiles were adjacent. Each polygon has a surface attribute (CST00SRF) indicating the type of feature it represents, ie. ice shelf, ice tongue. Data sources are dated between 1956-2007. | |
| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 1956-01-01 |
| End Date | 2007-12-31 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -90 |
| Northernmost | -60 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -180 |
| Easternmost | 180 |
| Altitude | |
| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | N/A |
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| Distribution: | |
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| Distribution Media | Online Internet (HTTP) |
| Distribution Size | 35 MB |
| Distribution Format | SHP |
| Fees | N/A |
| Data Storage: | This dataset contains 2 files: - GeoPackage ~24 MB - Shapefile ~11 MB |