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MarineRegions.org
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (yyyy): MarineRegions.org. Available online at www.marineregions.org. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.5164e7
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
Geographic Information Systems have become indispensable tools in managing and displaying marine data and information. The purpose of Marine Regions is to create a standard, relational list of geographic names, coupled with information and maps of the geographic location of these features. The objectives are to capture all geographic marine names worldwide, including ocean basins, seas, seamounts, sandbanks, ridges, bays and other marine geographical place names and attributes, and to display univocally the boundaries of marine biogeographic or other managed marine areas in order to facilitate marine data management, marine (bio)geographic research and the management of marine areas. Marine Regions is freely available at MarineRegions.org . more
Marine Regions is managed by Flanders Marine Institute. The Marine Regions database builds further on an integration of the VLIMAR Gazetteer (place names) and the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase (polygons for sea areas). Funding for the creation of the VLIMAR gazetteer was provided initially through the EU Network of Excellence MarBEF, funding for the further development and maintenance of Marine Regions is provided by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Marine Regions is managed by Flanders Marine Institute. The Marine Regions database builds further on an integration of the VLIMAR Gazetteer (place names) and the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase (polygons for sea areas). Funding for the creation of the VLIMAR gazetteer was provided initially through the EU Network of Excellence MarBEF, funding for the further development and maintenance of Marine Regions is provided by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Scope
Themes:
Boundaries, Geography
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Biogeography, Contiguous zones, Exclusive economic zone, GIS, International boundaries, Law of the sea, Marine, Territorial waters, World Oceans, World Waters
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager, database developer, data creator
Lonneville, Britt
Schepers, Lennert
Oset Garcia, Paula
Claus, Simon
Souza Dias, Francisco
De Hauwere, Nathalie
Deckers, Pieter
Houthoofdt, Robin
Declerck, Joram
Vanhoorne, Bart
Tyberghein, Lennert
Hernandez, Francisco
Mees, Jan
Fernández Bejarano, Salvador Jesús
Schepers, Lennert
Oset Garcia, Paula
Claus, Simon
Souza Dias, Francisco
De Hauwere, Nathalie
Deckers, Pieter
Houthoofdt, Robin
Declerck, Joram
Vanhoorne, Bart
Tyberghein, Lennert
Hernandez, Francisco
Mees, Jan
Fernández Bejarano, Salvador Jesús
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Source datasets:
Marine Regions gazetteer
MARBOUND: VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase
Project
MRG: Marine Regions, towards a standard for georeferenced marine names
Publication
Describing this dataset
Claus, S. et al. (2014). Marine Regions: towards a global standard for georeferenced marine names and boundaries. Mar. Geod. 37(2): 99-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2014.902881
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Metadatarecord created: 2019-06-24
Information last updated: 2022-03-31
