Dataset record
- Type
- GIS map dataset
- DOI
- https://www.doi.org/10.14284/382
- title in English
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 11
- Abstract in English
- Despite the strategic significance of EEZs, a standard georeferenced product with maritime boundaries was not available at the global level (Claus et. al, 2014), until it was developed and made available by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in 2006 (Deckers and Vanden Berghe, 2006).
The product developed at VLIZ consisted of two GIS layers providing both the maritime boundaries (lines) and the EEZs (polygons). The layers were regularly updated with 8 consecutive versions published between 2006 and 2014. Version 9 was launched by the VLIZ-hosted portal Marineregions.org in October 2016: Straight and archipelagic baselines were included, together with remaining areas defined by UNCLOS: internal and archipelagic waters, territorial seas and contiguous zones. Version 10 (2018) fixes known issues, updated treaties or minor fixes. For version 11 (2019) UN country codes were included in the EEZ attribute table. The High Seas as defined by UNCLOS was added in 2020. - Contactpoint
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- Email
- info@marineregions.org
- License
- https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
- bibliographicCitation
- Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 11. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/
Thesaurus terms
- Keyword
- Contiguous zones
- Exclusive economic zone
- International boundaries
- Law of the sea
- Territorial waters
Dataset references
- is part
of
- MarineRegions.org
- has part
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Archipelagic Waters, version 3
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM), version 3
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 1
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 1
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Internal Waters, version 3
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 3
- replaces
- (archived) Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase
- replaces
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 12
- related
- The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO sea areas, version 4(had
role: partially included in)
- related
- The union of world country boundaries and EEZs, version 3(had
role: partially included in)