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Title: Commercial Shipping Activity, 2007-2008

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Dates

  • Issued: 2008
  • Coverage: 2007
  • Coverage: 2008

Publishers

  • Science

Summary

This raster layer represents global commercial shipping activity including location and travel routes. Commercial shipping activity can lead to ship strikes of large animals, noise pollution, and a risk of ship groundings or sinkings. See the Lineage section for complete information about data sources and porcesses used to create this layer. This dataset is part of the Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems, a collection of data and analyses related to anthropogenic drivers of change in marine ecosystems. The goal of this research is to estimate and visualize the global impact that humans are having on the oceans' ecosystems. National Center for Ecologial Analysis and Synthesis. (2008) Commercial Shipping Activity, 2007-2008. Science. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zv735jp7944 Please see supplimental online materials for more information. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Environment
  • Oceans
  • Earth
  • Earth (Planet)
  • Shipping
  • Commerce
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Commercial Shipping Activity, 2007-2008. Science. Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/zv735jp7944

Format

ArcGRID

Languages

  • English