The coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland available as a shapefile and geopackage, covering the main land and islands, with glacier fronts updated as of 2017

A coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland covering all land and islands, produced in 2017 for the BAS map ''Greenland and the European Arctic''. The dataset was produced by extracting the land mask from the Greenland BedMachine dataset and manually editing anomalous data. Some missing islands were added and glacier fronts were updated using 2017 satellite imagery. The dataset can be used for cartography, analysis and as a mask, amongst other uses. At very large scales, the data will appear angular due to the nature of being extracted from a raster with 150 m cell size, but the dataset should be suitable for use at most scales and can be edited by the user to exclude very small islands if required. The projection of the dataset is WGS 84 NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North, EPSG 3413. The dataset does not promise to cover every island and coastlines were digitised using the data creator''s interpretation of the landforms from the images.

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01439
Date (Publication)
2020-12-02
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01439
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation - Gerrish, L.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
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Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Shorelines
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Coastline
  • Greenland
  • Land cover
  • Topography
Use limitation

Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Please cite as follows: Gerrish, L. (2020). The coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland available as a shapefile and geopackage, covering the main land and islands, with glacier fronts updated as of 2017. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/8CECDE06-8474-4B58-A9CB-B820FA4C9429

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Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Please cite as follows: Gerrish, L. (2020). The coastline of Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland available as a shapefile and geopackage, covering the main land and islands, with glacier fronts updated as of 2017. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/8CECDE06-8474-4B58-A9CB-B820FA4C9429

Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2017-06-24
End date
2017-10-06
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
GET DATA ( http )
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

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Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement
We cannot comprehensively say that this dataset covers every island or is completely accurate for all sections of the coastline. It is possible to interpret satellite imagery in different ways, especially in snowy images or regions with sea-ice close to the coast, but the dataset was produced to the best available standard available with the creator''s knowledge.
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01439 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-12-02
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01439
 
 

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