Lake Erie 2022 ESI Parks and Managed Areas Polygons

Vector polygons representing parks and managed areas for human-use resource data in the Lake Erie system. The data characterize coastal environments by their sensitivity to oil spills and cover the U.S. portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. It is part of the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) data produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Use Cases

• Mapping protected area boundaries for conservation planning based on the polygon features.
• Assessing oil spill vulnerability for coastal management areas based on the ESI framework.
• Integrating human-use resource data with biological and shoreline data for environmental impact studies.

Strengths

• Data is part of a standardized Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) framework for oil spill sensitivity.
• Spatial coverage includes the entire U.S. portion of Lake Erie across three states.
• Includes related stand-alone attribute tables (SOC_DAT, SOURCES) for detailed metadata.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided in PDF format, which is non-standard for geospatial vector data and may hinder direct analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Likely compiled from federal and state management boundaries for the ESI assessment.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 13 22:27:29.655075; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States portion of Lake Erie, covering coastal portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.