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Scale0 vector polygon of the Antarctic coastline - VERSION 5.0

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).

Simple

Alternate title

Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01884

Date (Publication)
2024-11-25
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01884
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

Cooper, P., Fox, A., & Cook, A.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Topography

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Topography > Contours

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Shorelines

BAS Free-text keywords

  • Antarctic Digital Database

  • Antarctica

  • Coastline

  • Grounding line

  • Land Cover

  • Land Use

  • Topographic mapping

Use limitation

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/

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other 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/

Language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1956-01-01
End date
2007-12-31
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

    GET DATA

    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

    Scale0 is the highest resolution that was produced.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01884 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2024-11-25
    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/01884

     
     

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