Mount Desert Island Ocean Boundary Polygon

Ocean polygon data defines the salt water bodies and municipal jurisdiction extent from the Mount Desert Island shoreline. The dataset serves as a digital base map layer, representing a widely accepted delineation of ocean area around MDI. It was created by Gordon Longsworth of the College of the Atlantic, with metadata formatted for NASA by Cheryl Solomon.

Use Cases

• Delineating municipal jurisdiction boundaries for coastal management using the polygon's spatial extent.
• Creating a base map layer for local tax or property mapping by referencing the defined shoreline representation.
• Analyzing salt water body extents for environmental studies based on the polygon's geospatial features.

Strengths

• Represents a widely accepted representation of ocean area around Mount Desert Island according to the description.
• Serves as a defined digital base map layer for the specified region.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and specific spatial resolution are unknown.
• Required software (Arc/Info, PC Arc/Info, ArcView) is proprietary and may limit accessibility.

Provenance

Source

Federal Geographic Committee metadata produced by Gordon Longsworth, College of the Atlantic.

Collection Method

Created to define salt water bodies and serve as a digital base map; formatted into NASA Directory Interchange Format by Cheryl Solomon.

Geography

Mount Desert Island shoreline and the extent of its municipal jurisdiction.