Global Digital Elevation Model (ETOPO2)

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Originator: ESRI
Publication_Date: 20061001
Title:
Global Digital Elevation Model (ETOPO2)
Edition: 2006
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: ESRIr Data & Maps
Issue_Identification: 2006 World, Europe, United States, Canada, and Mexico
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Redlands, California, USA
Publisher: ESRI
Other_Citation_Details:
Location: Elevation and Image Data - World DVD \world_elevation
Description:
Abstract:
Global Digital Elevation Model (ETOPO2) represents gridded (2 minute by 2 minute) elevation and bathymetry for the world. These data were derived from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations data set from September 2001.
Purpose:
Global Digital Elevation Model (ETOPO2) provides a base map layer displaying global elevation information for geographic analysis on global, regional, and national scales.
Supplemental_Information:
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:14,000,000.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 200110
Currentness_Reference:
publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Annually
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.000000
East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.000000
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.000000
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.000000
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: image
Theme_Keyword: bathymetry
Theme_Keyword: elevation
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: World
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal_Keyword: 2001
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Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.509
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Data_Quality_Information:
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Publication_Date: 200110
Title:
ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Publisher: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Other_Citation_Details:
1. The seafloor data between latitudes 64ø North and 72ø South are from the work of Smith and Sandwell (1997). These data were derived from satellite altimetry observations combined with carefully, quality-assured shipboard echo-sounding measurements, by Dr. Walter H.F. Smith, of the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry and Dr. David T. Sandwell, of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Data version 8.2 is used here. For reference on generation of these data, consult: W.H.F. Smith and D.T. Sandwell, 1997, Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings, Science 277 (5334), p.1956-1962. 2. Seafloor data southward of 72ø South are from the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office's (NAVOCEANO) Digital Bathymetric Data Base Variable Resolution (DBDBV), version 4.1, gridded at 5 minute spacing; some data in this region are from the older DBDB5 (these data were also used in ETOPO5). Seafloor data northward from 64ø North are from the new International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 1. For reference on generation of the IBCAO data, consult: Jakobsson,M., N.Z. Cherkis, J. Woodward, R.Macnab, and B. Coakley. New grid of Arctic bathymetry aids scientists and mapmakers; Eos,Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v.81, no.9, p. 89,93,96. 3. Land topography is from the GLOBE Project, an internationally designed, developed, and independently peer-reviewed global digital elevation model (DEM), at a latitude-longitude grid spacing of 30 arc-seconds (30"). The GLOBE Task Team was established by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). It is part of Focus I of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme - Data and Information System. Primary contributors to the GLOBE database are: o National Imagery and Mapping Agency (formerly Defense Mapping Agency), Fairfax, Virginia, USA o Geographical Survey Institute, Tsukuba, Japan o Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, Canberra, ACT, Australia o Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA o University College London, UK o DLR-German Remote Sensing Data Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany o NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA o USGS EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA Note: The data set was downloaded from the web site in 2003.
Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO2/
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2001
Source_Currentness_Reference:
publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation:
NGDC - ETOPO2
Source_Contribution:
Attribute and geospatial data
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Data Base Assembly

The five major data sources were assembled into the single ETOPO2 2-minute data base without formal edge matching or other methods that alter the data as initially posted. Higher-resolution data take precedence: data derived from GLOBE mask all other data, Smith/Sandwell data come next, followed by IBCAO, with the 5-minute data filling any gaps. 

Five-minute data from DBDBV and ETOPO5 and 30-second data from GLOBE were regridded to 2 minute spacing by bicubic spline interpolation. IBCAO data were originally gridded in a polar stereographic projection; these data were interpolated along lines of constant latitude at 2 minute steps for every 2 minutes of latitude from 72ø North to the pole.
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
NGDC - ETOPO2
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The following steps were performed by ESRI: Downloaded each tile of the data from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO2/, extracted each, and assembled all into a global data set. Insured that the coordinates are in decimal degrees.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
NGDC - ETOPO2
Process_Date: 20040122
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Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster
Raster_Object_Information:
Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell
Row_Count: 5400
Column_Count: 10800
Vertical_Count: 1
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Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984
Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224
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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: etopo2
Entity_Type_Definition:
The ArcInfo grid represents an elevation and bathymetry map for the world.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
ESRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ObjectID
Attribute_Definition:
Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source:
ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Value
Attribute_Definition:
The elevation in meters.
Attribute_Definition_Source:
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Calculated elevations for the pixels.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Count
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Distributor:
Contact_Information:
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Contact_Organization: ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20040318
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