Ocean, Coast, and Great Lakes Planning Data
Explore, discover and access a variety of rich spatial and non‐spatial data. We’ve identified a few data sources that we want to highlight. We’ve identified other data sources you may want to access in your search and we are providing a link to geo.data.gov where you can search all of the Federal geospatial data available through data.gov. We are just getting started, so if you can’t find the data you are looking for, please tell us!
Featured Data
U.S. Geological Survey
Several bureaus within the Department of Interior compiled available information from seabird observation datasets from the Atlantic Outer...
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources
Critical habitat (CH) is designated for the survival and recovery of species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA...
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Habitat Conservation
Designated Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) areas where fishing or the use of fishing gears has been restricted or modified in order to minimize the...
NOAA's Ocean Service, Special Projects (SP)
These Bathymetric Digital Elevation Models (DEM) were generated from original point soundings collected during hydrographic surveys conducted by the...
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Habitat Conservation
The purpose of HAPCs is to focus conservation, management, and research efforts on subsets of EFH that are vulnerable to degradation or are...
NOAA/NGDC
U.S. IOOS delivers the data and information needed to increase understanding of our coastal waters, so that decision-makers can take action to...
NOAA's Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
NOAA is responsible for depicting on its nautical charts the limits of the 12 nautical mile Territorial Sea, 24 nautical mile Contiguous Zone, and...
DISDI
The dataset depicts the authoritative boundaries of the most commonly known Department of Defense (DoD) sites, installations, ranges, and training...
NOAA's Ocean Service, Special Projects (SP)
The NOAA Seamless Raster Chart Server provides a seamless collarless mosaic of the NOAA Raster Navigational Charts (RNC). The RNC are a collection...
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart...
OBIS-USA
OBIS-USA provides aggregated, interoperable biogeographic data collected primarily from U.S. waters and oceanic regions--the Arctic, the Atlantic and...
NASA
A comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data.
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), began a program to map the areas of the U.S. Exclusive...
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), began a program to map the areas of the U.S. Exclusive...
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), began a program to map the areas of the U.S. Exclusive...
DOI/FWS
This data layer depicts lands and waters administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in North America, U.S. Trust Territories and...
US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
The Expert Query Tool is a web-based reporting tool using the EPA’s WATERS database.There are just three steps to using Expert Query:1. View...
