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    • NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) Coastal Inundation Digital Elevation Model: U.S. Virgin Islands

    Metadata Updated: March 16, 2024

    These data were created as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's efforts to create an online mapping viewer called the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. It depicts potential sea level rise and its associated impacts on the nation's coastal areas. The purpose of the mapping viewer is to provide coastal managers and scientists with a preliminary look at sea level rise (slr) and coastal flooding impacts. The viewer is a screening-level tool that uses nationally consistent data sets and analyses. Data and maps provided can be used at several scales to help gauge trends and prioritize actions for different scenarios. The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer may be accessed at: http://www.coast.noaa.gov/slr This metadata record describes the digital elevation model (DEM) for the U.S. Virgin Islands of St.Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas. This DEM is a part of a series of DEMs produced for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer described above. The DEMs created for this project were developed using the NOAA National Weather Service's Weather Forecast Office (WFO) boundaries. The U.S. Virgin Islands DEM includes the best available data known to exist at the time of DEM creation, that met project specifications for the U.S. Virgin Islands in the San Juan, PR WFO. This includes the coastlines of St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas. This DEM was derived from the 2013 NOAA Topographic Lidar for the U.S. Virgin Islands. A hydro-flattened DEM created from this data was provided by the contractor as a deliverable. The DEM is referenced vertically to the Virgin Islands Vertical Datum (VIVD09) with vertical units of meters and horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The resolution of the DEM is approximately 3 meters.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date February 29, 2024
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 16, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2014-12 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NOS OCM

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date February 29, 2024
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 16, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2014-12 (publication)
    Responsible Party NOAA Office for Coastal Management (Point of Contact, Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:48126
    Access Constraints Cite As: Office for Coastal Management, [Date of Access]: NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) Coastal Inundation Digital Elevation Model: U.S. Virgin Islands [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48126., Access Constraints: None, Use Constraints: The dataset is provided as is, without warranty to its performance, merchantable state, or fitness for any particular purpose. The entire risk associated with the results and performance of this dataset is assumed by the user. This dataset should be used strictly as a planning reference and not for navigation, permitting, or other legal purposes., Distribution Liability: Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.
    Bbox East Long -64.511492
    Bbox North Lat 18.466974
    Bbox South Lat 17.61987
    Bbox West Long -65.139523
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Harvest Object Id 5e0ebc41-6ba0-4eb0-8dc6-c7dbc3a55a33
    Harvest Source Id c0121fd9-df15-4168-ac04-42f6e36a794d
    Harvest Source Title NOS OCM
    Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
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    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-65.139523, 17.61987], [-64.511492, 17.61987], [-64.511492, 18.466974], [-65.139523, 18.466974], [-65.139523, 17.61987]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2013
    Temporal Extent End 2014

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