Document of dataset 8395

Dataset record

Type
Dataset
DOI
https://www.doi.org/10.14284/633
title in English
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 4
Description in English

In the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Marine Regions makes available most of the maritime areas defined in the Law of the Sea Convention: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW) and Archipelagic Waters (AW).

Abstract in English

Territorial Seas from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Territorial seas are a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state.

Contactpoint
Email
info@marineregions.org
License
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
bibliographicCitation
Flanders Marine Institute (2023). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 4. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/.

Geographical coverage

Spatial
World Oceans

Thesaurus terms

Keyword
Administrative units
Boundaries
Data not evaluated
Esri Shapefile
Exclusive economic zones
Geopackage
Geoscientific Information
Google Keyhole Markup Language (KML/KMZ)
Law of the sea
Metadata conformant
No limitations to public access
Oceans
Sea regions
Territorial waters
WGS84 (EPSG:4326)

Themes

theme
Boundaries

Ownerships

creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Britt Lonneville
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Salvador Jesús Fernández Bejarano
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Lawrence Whatley
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Lennert Schepers
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Lennert Tyberghein
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Bart Vanhoorne
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Dataset references

is part of
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 12
replaces
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 3

Projects

was generated by
LifeWatch - Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu
MRG - Marine Regions, towards a standard for georeferenced marine names

Special collections

part of special collection
VLIZ Acknowledged Publications

Document metadata

date created
2023-10-09
date modified
2024-12-02