MDL COURSE 202: How to Make a Local Marine and Coastal Atlas

Integration of Marine Data Resources - Click on the map to see a larger version

• Digital Number Types
• Scalars and Vectors
• Gridded Data
• General File-Naming Convention for Earth Science Datasets
• Coordinate Systems for the Earth Surface - Geographic and UTM
• Map Projections for Cartography
• Map Scale
• OceanTeacher Academy Data Websites and Catalogs - Many are global and low resolution, but you should go through them carefully to find some high-resolution gems.
  • Geospatial Data Gateway - Everything here is GIS-oriented
  • Marine Data Gateway
  • Remote Sensing Data Gateway

• Abstract of Training Session: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontal do Sul, Brazil, Nov 18-29, 2013
• Abstract of Training Session: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontal do Sul, Brazil, Dec 9-13, 2013
• Draft Pontal (Brazil) Coastal Atlas - Static atlas example

• Required:  201: Introduction to Marine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Saga

• Desirable:  102: Introduction to Marine Data Management II or 101: Introduction to Marine Data Management I

• Select area of interest polygon and make necessary frames and dummy grids (skip over, if possible)
  • 1.1 Folder Structure
  • 2.1 Saga Preliminary Setup
  • 2.2 Project Area
  • 2.3 Creating a Project Map in Saga

  • 2.4 Creating Graticules and Frames in Saga

  • 2.5 Creating Grid Templates in Saga
• Select geographic (e.g. WGS84) or projection for products

• 1.7 Essential Global Data Layers for Marine Atlases - Used in GIS training, where local/regional data are not yet found.  Usually very low resolution.  In some cases, may provide good beginnings for local data, or temporary coverage when nothing else is available.  Note that nearly all of the layers have instructions on how to load into GIS

• 1.11 Raster Scales and Vector Resolution

• 2.12 Cutting a Shape to the Project Map Extent in Saga

• 2.24 Visualizing High-Density/Small Coastal Area Environmental Survey Data in Saga

• 2.10 Adding a Text-Dominated Spreadsheet to a Project Map in Saga

• 2.11 Adding a Number-Dominated Spreadsheet to a Project Map in Saga

• 2.20 Removing "Land Stations" from a Marine Data Collection - Murray (still incomplete

• 2.26 Digitizing High-Resolution Borders and Coastlines in Google Earth

• 2.27 Reprojecting Vector Data in Saga:  UTM to WGS84

• 2.28 Reprojecting Grid Data in Saga:  WGS84 to UTM

• 5.1 Converting a Data Table to a Point Shape in Saga

• 5.2 Gridding Point Shapes in Saga

• 5.3 Resampling Grid Data to the Project Map Extent with a "Dummy" Grid

• 5.7 Handling Classified Grids with Saga

• 9.21 Visualizing Satellite Images in IDV, Google Earth & SAGA:  MODIS Subsets

• Best-available/acceptable resolution

  • 7.3 Estimating Topographic Contours in Saga from SRTM Data

  • 2.33 Managing Global Coastline, River and Lake Vectors: GSHHG

• Will be scoped and implemented on an ad hoc basis, depending on the selected area

  • Topography

  • Bathymetry

  • Coastline

• Will be scoped and implemented on an ad hoc basis, depending on the selected area

• Will be scoped and implemented on an ad hoc basis, depending on the selected area

• Will be scoped and implemented on an ad hoc basis, depending on the selected area 

• SST climatology from Color Web; use 2.21 Importing Satellite Chlorophyll and SST Climatologies into Marine GIS: Color Web; then 2.22 Converting Data Grids from Scaled Integers to Real Values
• Chloro climatology from Color Web; 2.21 Importing Satellite Chlorophyll and SST Climatologies into Marine GIS: Color Web
• Time-series of principal parameters for selected coastal locations; use 9.40 Extracting Time-Series Plots for Points in 3-D Grids with IDV: Models or Climatologies
• Waves; 2.32 Global Wave Grids from the EU Climatology or 2.18 Discontinued US Navy Marine Atlas: Global Wave Grids
• Etc. etc. selected from Essential GIS sources; chose seasonal when possible, over monthly, unless stark differences are clear

• Will be scoped and implemented on an ad hoc basis, depending on the selected area

• 5.7 Handling Classified Grids with Saga
• WCMC
  • Use Ocean Data Viewer to find good datasets
  • Use Data and Information tab to get files; requires quick ID
  • Probably the latest USGS mangrove map is the only thing we need for Parana; and it will need constant updating as remote imagery becomes available.
• World Database of Protected Areas
• Data echinodermata - Excellent example of an ASCII data spreadsheet.

• WorldClim 30-sec BIL grids -- but not BIO -- from 1.7 Essential Global Data Layers for Marine Atlases

• 2.8 Adding Administrative Boundaries and Coastline to a Project Map in Saga

• GEBCO Undersea Feature Names Gazetteer - All local features in AOI

• Brazilian Navy nautical charts (or other local equivalent).  

  • Requires ChartReprojectNT to convert KAP charts to GeoTIFF for use in Saga.