Protected Areas GIS
Contents: Overview | Data Layers | Availability | Online Mapping | CD-ROM Access | Documentation
North Carolina Estuarine Reserve Areas
Overview
The Protected Areas GIS collection, available from the NOAA Coastal Services Center, consists of a collection of data, assembled in a common projection (UTM, zone appropriate to each area), covering National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR) and National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS). Data are released on CD-ROM by reserve or, in some cases, by state.
Data Layers
Shapefiles
Reserve boundaries are available as shapefiles.
MrSID Images:
For North Carolina, Digital Raster Graphics are available for the areas indicated below:
For North Carolina, Digital Orthophotos (one meter 1993 black & white) are available for the areas indicated below:
TIFF Images:
For North Carolina, Digital Nautical Charts are available for the entire coast (mostly at 1:80,000 scale), areas indicated below:
Availability
PAGIS data is available for 25 reserve sites in the U.S. (see map). NCSU Libraries owns the CD-ROMs for all of the sites on the southeastern U.S. coast from Virginia to Florida, including:
- Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
- North Carolina
- ACE Basin, South Carolina
- North Inlet/Winyah Bay,S.Carolina
- Sapelo Island, Georgia
- Apalachicola Bay, Florida
- Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas, Florida (not currently available)
- Rookery Bay, Florida
Online Mapping
The reserve boundary data for several reserves may be viewed interactively, online at http://www.csc.noaa.gov/pagis/html/online.htm
CD-ROM Access
The PAGIS CD-ROMs will be available in D. H. Hill Library Reference Area, GIS Cabinet in the near future.
Documentation
Metadata is included on the CD-ROMs. More information may be found at the NOAA CSC PAGIS site at: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/pagis/.
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