Marine/Coastal GIS | Data & Image Portals (includes Metadata Catalogs)

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Abu Dhabi Coastal Atlas
African Marine Atlas
Alaska ShoreZone Coastal Mapping and Imagery
auSEABED and dbSEABED (Australian GIS/Database Structure for Offshore Soils)
     Google Earth version
Australian Coastal Atlas
Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS)
Baja to Bering Data Compilation (Marine Conservation Biology Institute or MCBI)
Benthic Habitat Atlas of Coastal Texas
BlueNet, the Australian Marine Science Data Network
British Columbia Pacific Coastal Resources Atlas
California State University System Coastal Data
CoastAlaska.net (over 20,000 km of low-tide shoreline imagery)
CoastalManagement.com (use their SEARCH to find "GIS" on their site)
CoastWeb (use their SEARCH to find articles on GIS, data, etc.)
Conservation GeoPortal
Digital Coast: Legislative Atlas (formerly the Ocean Planning Information System or OPIS)
Digital Ocean: Nautical Charts for purchase (especially for Canada)
Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Data
Endeavour Segment GIS
Environmental Marine Information System for Europe (EMIS)
EU-SEASED (seafloor/seabed samples)
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctary GIS (American Samoa)
G.COAST - Geo Coastal Network Explorer
GeoConnections Canada
Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) Interactive Web Data Delivery System (IWDDS)
GISFish (aquaculture and inland fisheries)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
Global Maritime Data (General Dynamics) - Maritime Boundaries, Ports, Shoreline, Shipwrecks
Global Offshore Wind Farms Database (4C)
Global Shoreline/Coastline Data (most accurate data set available now at 1:100K; High Water Line only, NOAA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
GRASS visualizations, Doubtful Sound, New Zealand (temporary site of Hamish Bowman, University of Otago, New Zealand)
Gulf of Mexico Alliance Map Viewer
Hawaii Bathymetry Service
Lake Tahoe GIS
MAGIC: Coastal and Marine Resource Atlas (UK)
MAGIS (Maps, Aerials, and GIS, University of Hawaii-Manoa)
Marine Data Online (Marine Institute, Ireland)
MarineGIS.com
MARIS: MArine Information Service (The Netherlands)
MEDIN: Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (UK)
MORIS (Massachussetts Ocean Resource information System)
Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
NANOOS Visualization System (NVS)
     NVS portal to Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model (PRISM) Cruise Data
NGDC Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples
Natural Resources Canada
Naval Oceanographic Office (NavOceanO)
NIMA Digital Nautical Charts
NOAA Coastal Assessment and Data Synthesis System
NOAA Coastal Shoreline
NOAA Digital Vector Shoreline
NOAA Gulf Oil Spill Response Interactive Map Portal
NOAA Nautical Charts
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) DEM Discovery Portal
NOAA NOS Hydrographic Database (NOSHDB)
NOAA NOS Data Explorer
NOAA NGDC Tsunami Inundation Grids/DEMs
North Carolina Coastal Hazards Decision Portal
OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System)
      OBIS-SEAMAP (OBIS-Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations)
      MedOBIS (Mediterranean Biogeographic Information System)
      OBIS via NBII
      Biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico Database (BioGoMx) in OBIS
Ocean GeoPortal (Smithsonian, pdf file)
Ocean Globe Project (International Underwater Exploration and Information Service, Joe Breman)
Oregon Coastal Atlas
Oregon Coast Geospatial Clearinghouse
Oregon North Coast Explorer
OzCoasts (Geoscience Australia)
PaCOOS: West Coast Habitat Portal (includes Oregon nearshore bathymetry, Oregon continental shelf bathymetry)
Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBMHC)
     PIBMHC Cruise Catalog
Protected Areas GIS (PAGIS, National Marine Sanctuaries)
San Diego Marine Information System (SDMIS)
Sea Around Us Project (global fisheries, EEZs, high seas, large marine ecosystems, expeditions & surveys)
Seafloor Mapping Lab, Cal-State Monterey Bay (California Nearshore and Continental Shelf Bathy, Backscatter, Habitat)
Sea Level Rise Data (California, Pacific Institute)
Shore and Sea Boundaries (NOAA Office of Coast Survey)
Texas Coast Seamless Topo/Bathymetry (comments to Troy Holcombe, tholcombe@ocean.tamu.edu)
USGS Coastal and Nearshore LIDAR
USGS Coastal Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise
VENTS Data Sets/GIS
Virginia's Coastal GEMS (data, maps, laws and policies, and more
Washington Coastal Atlas
World Database on Protected Areas (including marine protected areas or MPAs)

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