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Precautionary Areas in U.S. Waters

Dataset Summary

Agency	NOAA's Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
Sub-Agency/Organization
Category	Oceans and Estuaries, Transportation Networks
Date Released	2001
Date Updated
Time Period	20010711 - Present
Frequency	Daily
Description	The GIS REST service for "Precautionary Areas in U.S. Waters" provides raster maps of precautionary areas which are defined as A routing measure comprising an area within defined limits where ships must navigate with particular caution and within which the direction of traffic flow may be recommended. These areas are derived from NOAA's Electronic Navigational Charts. This serivce is a cartographic representation of marine source data based on S-57 data format and content specification

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Geodata
Specialized Data Category Designation	Geospatial
Keywords	Tri - Service Spatial Data Standard, hydrography, transportation, marine navigation, coastal and marine spatial planning, ocean coastal mapping, None, Precautionary Area, Regulated Area, ISO 19115 Topic Category, oceans, transportation, None, U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, U.S. territories, U.S. waters
Unique ID	5AE95675-A152-4E18-B7E4-66BBC2EB75DC

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
Agency Program Page
Agency Data Series Page	http://ocs-gis.ncd.noaa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/CMSP/Precautionary_Area...

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis
Granularity
Geographic Coverage	-179.43, 174.61, 65.67, 17.57

Data Description

Collection Mode
Data Collection Instrument
Data Dictionary/Variable List	The data provided through the NOAA ENC Direct to GIS service is derived from electronic data that conforms to the International Hydrographic Organization Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, Special Publication S-57, ENC Product Specification Edition 2.0. The entity and attribute descriptions are contained in the standard. The standard is available from the IHO at .

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Technical Documentation
Additional Metadata	XML Format

OMB Control No. 3090-0284