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Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
Global data on human impacts to marine ecosystems
Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
Use Example
The goal of the research presented here is to estimate and
visualize, for the first time, the global impact humans are having on
the ocean's ecosystems. The full impact model, source impact layers,
and ecosystem extents can all be downloaded in a variety of formats.
- Spatial Resolution: ~1 km
- Extent: Global
- Temporal Resolution: N/A
- Date Range: 02/2008
- Format(s): PDF, JPEG, KML, compressed ESRI Grid, GeoTIFF, compressed .ASC
- Access
Methods: HTTP
- Data
Access: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine/models (input datasets are also available: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine/impacts and http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine/ecosystems)
- CoML visualization guidance: TBD
Use Example
Download an compressed ESRI Grid file and visualize in ArcGIS
- Data Download: http://ebm.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine/models/model/grid/model.7z (note that this is a large file: ~366 MB)
- Data Conversion: These instructions assume local access to ESRI's ArcGIS software - access to ArcGIS via remote desktop is also available.
Extraction will create a grid folder with several subfolders (~3 GB). These folders must all be kept together.
In ArcGIS navigate to the new grid folder and add the "model" raster within.