CanCoast - Marine Shoreline Version 3.0

CanCoast is a geospatial database of the physical characteristics of Canada's marine coasts. It includes both feature classes that are not expected to change through time, and feature classes that are expected to change as climate changes. CanCoast includes: wave-height change with sea ice (early and late 21st century); sea-level change (early and late century); ground ice content; coastal materials; tidal range; and backshore slope. These are mapped to a common high-resolution shoreline and used to calculate indices that show the coastal sensitivity of Canada's marine coasts in modelled early and late 21st century climates.

Date ( RI_367 ): 2019-05-01

Date ( RI_366 ): 2017-09-01

RI_415

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_413

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_409

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_414

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

Presentation form: mapDigital;carteNumérique RI_391

Name: Open File

Other citation details: Manson, G.K., Couture, N.J, James, T.S., 2019. CanCoast 2.0: Data and Indices to Describe the Sensitivity of Canada's Marine Coasts to Changing Climate; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8551, 17 + ii p. https://doi.org/10.4095/314669

Purpose: The CanCoast Marine Shoreline Version 3.0 feature class is the marine coastline used in CanCoast analyses. It was developed from CanVec 9.0, an existing public digital data source derived from 1:50,000 scale topographic maps. In a small number of cases, where sections of the shoreline were not available in CanVec 9.0 (i.e. parts of the Arctic islands), the shoreline was extracted from digital 1:250,000 scale National Topographic Database maps. CanCoast Shoreline 3.0 includes the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic marine coasts, including islands and estuaries. In the St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec City is used as the western extent of marine influence. In smaller estuaries, non-tidal rivers are included in this version to avoid excluding the upper reaches of tidal estuaries.

Credit: Funding for CanCoast was provided by the Climate Change Geoscience Program of the Lands and Minerals Sector of Natural Resources Canada under the Supporting Adaptation in Coastal Regions project. Additional funding was provided by the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations Division of Natural Resources Canada.

Status: completed; complété RI_593

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542

GSC Keywords Vocabulary - Thesaurus Thésaurus - vocabulaire de mots-clé de la CGC ( RI_528 )

Coastal and Marine Geology

NRCan - GSC - Coastal domain - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Domain côtier ( RI_528 )

shoreline

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )

Coasts

Use limitation: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2018

Use limitation: Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Access constraints: license; licence RI_606

Use constraints: otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609

Spatial representation type: vector; vecteur RI_635

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Description: Canada's marine coasts.

Begin date: 2011-12-31

End date: 2011-12-31

Supplemental Information: CanVec and National Topographic Database maps were provided by Natural resources Canada. This shoreline version builds on early work done by the Geological survey of Canada of Natural Resources Canada in 2012, and updated in 2017. It includes non-tidal rivers because a national DEM does not exist at the resolution needed to facilitate exclusion of non-tidal water bodies. A suitable DEM is under construction by Natural Resources Canada and, together with tidal amplitude and storm surge height estimates, it is planned that this feature class will be updated to exclude non-tidal water bodies not susceptible to storm surges.

Reference system identifier: http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:4617 / 6.14

Spatial representation info

No information provided.

Distribution format

SHP ( ESRI ArcGIS )

RI_412

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_414

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

Transfer size: 274

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Marine Shoreline Version 3.0 ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Littoral maritime, version 3.0 ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Marine Shoreline Version 3.0 - French ( HTTPS )
Dataset;ZIP;fra

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Marine Shoreline Version 3.0 - English ( HTTPS )
Dataset;ZIP;eng

Hierarchy level: dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Absolute external positional accuracy

Quantitative result

Value: 50

Absolute external positional accuracy

Quantitative result

Value: 10

Statement: Generic process step - data source list Process step no. 1 Process step no. 2 Process step no. 3 Process step no. 4 Process step no. 5 Process step no. 6 Process step no. 7 Process step no. 8

Description: This generic process step lists all the data sources used to create the dataset

Date / Time: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: CanVec 9.0 |- National Topographic Database, 1:250,000 maps

Description: CanVec 9.0 polygon feature classes imported into ArcInfo. Clip tool used to clip inland features, using previously selected National Topographic System sheet boundaries.

Date / Time: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Polygon feature classes dissolved using the dissolve tool to eliminate grid lines in CanVec 9.0 polygon features. Dissolve used on 'identif' attribute, and a new polygon feature class created.

Date / Time: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Polygon feature classes dissolved using the dissolve tool to eliminate polygon lines in CanVec 9.0 polygon features. Dissolve used on 'dissolve_id' attribute, and a new polygon feature class created.

Date / Time: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Polygons containing coastal features (coastlines, coastal rivers, inlets, etc) exported as new shapefile feature classes.

Date / Time: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Feature to polyline tool used to create a coastal polyline from the coastal polygon feature class.

Date / Time: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Some gaps were present in the CanVec 9.0 data used, therefore data from National Topographic Database 1:250,000 map was used to fill in these gaps. Split was used to cut the National Topographic Database polyline to fit into the gaps, and Merge tool was then used to combine National Topographic Database with the CanVec shoreline.