Northern Canada Shoreline Classification
This dataset is part of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Shoreline Classification and Pre-Spill database and it covers various locations across the Canadian Arctic i.e. James Bay, Resolute Bay and the south coast of Devon Island, the south-west coast of Hudson Bay, Labrador Coast, Victoria Strait, Beaufort Sea, and the North-east coast of Baffin Island. Shoreline classification data has been developed for use by the Environmental Emergencies Program of Environment and Climate Change Canada for environmental protection purposes. Marine and freshwater shorelines are classified according to the character of the upper intertidal (foreshore) or upper swash zone. This is the area where oil from a spill usually becomes stranded and where the treatment or cleanup activities take place. The basic parameter that defines the shoreline type is the material that is present in the intertidal zone. The presence or absence of sediments is a key factor in determining whether oil is stranded on the surface of a substrate or can penetrate and/or be buried. This dataset contains thousands of linear shoreline segments ranging in length from 200 m and 2 km long. The entities represent the location of the segments and their geomorphological description.
There exist further fields in the attribute table for this dataset. We are currently working on standardizing our shoreline segmentation datasets and the updated data will soon be uploaded to the catalog.
Sergy, G. (2008). The Shoreline Classification Scheme for SCAT and Oil Spill Response in Canada. Proceedings of the 31stArctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar.Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, Pp. 811-819.
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2017-05-11
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2017-05-05
- Status
- completed; complété RI_593
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown; inconnu RI_543
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- SCAT; Shoreline Classification; Shoreline; Segmentation; Bedrock Cliff; Bedrock Vertical; Bedrock Platform; Boulder Beach; Man-made Permeable; Man-made Solid; Mud Tidal Flat; Sand Beach; Sand Bank; Wetlands; Not Classified; Bedrock Sloping; Bedrock Ramp; Boulder Bank; Marsh; Mixed Sediment Beach; Mixed Sediment Bank; Pebble Beach; Cobble Beach; Sand Beach; Sand Bank; Sediment Cliff; Vegetated Bank; Canada; Geomorphology; Coastal Landforms; Coastal Processes; Intertidal Zone; Coastal Landform; Mud Bank; Clay Bank; Sand Tidal Flat; Beach; Rocky Coast; Driftwood; Glacier Ice; Ice-Poor Tundra Cliff; Ice-Rich Tundra Cliff; Inundated Low-Lying Tundra; Peat Shoreline; Snow; Ice; Banks Island; Hudson Bay; Beaufort Sea; James Bay; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; North; Newfoundland; Labrador; Quebec; Ontario; NL; QC; ON
- local.theme.EC_Information_Category local.theme.EC_Information_Category ( RI_528 )
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- Other
- local.theme.EC_Waf local.theme.EC_Waf ( RI_528 )
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- Oversee and Manage Site Conditions
- Respond to Environmental Emergencies
- local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope ( RI_525 )
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- Territories - Northwest Territories (NT)
- Atlantic - Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)
- Territories - Yukon (YT)
- Territories - Nunavut (NU)
- Water - Ocean basin - Hudson Bay
- Water - Ocean basin - Arctic Ocean
- Water - Ocean basin - Atlantic Ocean
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Oceans
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- vector; vecteur RI_635
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2017-05-11
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / 4326 /
- Distribution format
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FGDB/GDB
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FGDB / GDB
)
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FGDB/GDB
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FGDB / GDB
)
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
- OnLine resource
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Northern Canada Shoreline Classification
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ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
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Northern Canada Shoreline Classification
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- OnLine resource
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Northern Canada Shoreline Classification
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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Northern Shoreline Classification Canada
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OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;fra
- OnLine resource
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ShorelineClassification_NO.csv
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Dataset;CSV;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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ShorelineClassification_NO_OpenDataCatalogue.gdb.zip
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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View ECCC Data Mart (English)
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Web Service;HTML;eng
- OnLine resource
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View ECCC Data Mart (French)
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Web Service;HTML;fra
- OnLine resource
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How To Guide - Navigating Through Open Data Portals - for ECCC Shoreline Data.pdf
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Guide Pratique - Naviguer à travers les catalogues de données ouvertes - pour les rivages d'ECCC.pdf
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Supporting Document;PDF;fra
- File identifier
- 1c61d457-4d03-4f3a-9005-9aabb5a201bb XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Parent identifier
- Shoreline Segmentation with Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT) Classification deb2db19-1ec7-4465-b2de-dba43fb0f8c0
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2019-01-11T18:38:25
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
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