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The coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland available as a shapefile and geopackage, covering the main land and islands, with glacier fronts updated as of 2017

A coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland covering all land and islands, produced in 2017 for the BAS map ''Greenland and the European Arctic''. The dataset was produced by extracting the land mask from the Greenland BedMachine dataset and manually editing anomalous data. Some missing islands were added and glacier fronts were updated using 2017 satellite imagery. The dataset can be used for cartography, analysis and as a mask, amongst other uses. At very large scales, the data will appear angular due to the nature of being extracted from a raster with 150 m cell size, but the dataset should be suitable for use at most scales and can be edited by the user to exclude very small islands if required. The projection of the dataset is WGS 84 NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North, EPSG 3413. The dataset does not promise to cover every island and coastlines were digitised using the data creator''s interpretation of the landforms from the images.

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Alternate title

Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01439

Date (Publication)
2020-12-02
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01439
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation

Gerrish, L.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Shorelines

BAS Free-text keywords

  • Coastline

  • Greenland

  • Land cover

  • Topography

Use limitation

Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.



Please cite as follows: Gerrish, L. (2020). The coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland available as a shapefile and geopackage, covering the main land and islands, with glacier fronts updated as of 2017. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/8CECDE06-8474-4B58-A9CB-B820FA4C9429

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.



Please cite as follows: Gerrish, L. (2020). The coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland available as a shapefile and geopackage, covering the main land and islands, with glacier fronts updated as of 2017. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/8CECDE06-8474-4B58-A9CB-B820FA4C9429

Language
English
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2017-06-24
End date
2017-10-06
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    Distributor
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name

    http

    https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=8cecde06-8474-4b58-a9cb-b820fa4c9429

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    Hierarchy level
    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification

    Pass
    No
    Statement

    We cannot comprehensively say that this dataset covers every island or is completely accurate for all sections of the coastline. It is possible to interpret satellite imagery in different ways, especially in snowy images or regions with sea-ice close to the coast, but the dataset was produced to the best available standard available with the creator''s knowledge.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01439 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2020-12-02
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003

    Metadata standard version

    1.0

    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01439

     
     

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