FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2003, RELEASED NOVEMBER, 2002.

TITLE: FLORIDA CORAL REEFS

Geodataset Name: 	CORALN
Geodataset Type: 	SHAPE
Geodataset Feature: 	POLYGON

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

This dataset contains the locations of coral reefs in the Florida Keys.

DATA SOURCE(S):  			National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
                                        Administration (NOAA)

SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:    	N/A

DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: 		09/30/98

GEODATASET EXTENT:  			FLORIDA KEYS

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name:   CORALN.DBF

ITEM NAME         WIDTH      TYPE     PRECISION  

SHAPE		     8     SHAPEPOLY      -
AREA                19     DECIMAL        3                        
PERIMETER           19     DECIMAL        3                        
SCLASSNM            35     CHARACTER      -                        
SCLASSDT            20     CHARACTER      -                        
CODENAME            35     CHARACTER      -                        
DESCRIPT            50     CHARACTER      -                        

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item	      Item description

SHAPE         Data attribute inherent to the ESRI shapefile format,
              which defines the data as a point, polyline, or polygon.

AREA          Area of the polygon in square meters

PERIMETER     Perimeter of the polygons in meters

SCLASSNM      Class Name

SCLASSDT      Date of class designation

CODENAME      Description of area

DESCRIPT      Based on SCLASSNM

USER NOTES:

The original coverage contained data for the SE United States region and was clipped to those areas in and around 
Florida to conform to FGDL standards.

FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:

-Reprojection into FGDL format
-Tolerance set to FGDL standards
-Renamed coverage from CORAL to CORALN
-Added DESCRIPT item

MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS

PROJECTION 				ALBERS
DATUM 					HPGN
UNITS 					METERS
SPHEROID 				GRS1980
PARAMETERS
1st standard parallel			24  0  0.000
2nd standard parallel			31 30  0.000
central meridian			-84 00  0.000
latitude of projection's origin		24  0  0.000
false easting (meters)			400000.00000
false northing (meters)			0.00000

DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):

Name: 		  National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
                  Coastal Services Center
Abbr.name: 	  NOAA (CSC)
Address: 	  2234 South Hobson Ave.
	          Charelston, SC. 29405
Phone:            (800)789-2234
Fax: 		  (843)740-1224
Web site: 	  www3.csc.noaa.gov
Hours of Service: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm, Eastern Standard Time
Email:            metadata@csc.noaa.gov
Contact Person:   Clearinghouse Manager
	 Phone:   (800)789-2234
	 Email:   clearinghouse@csc.noaa.gov              

FGDL CONTACT:

Name:                   Florida Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name:             FGDL
Address:                Florida Geographic Data Library
                        431 Architecture
                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
Web site:               http://www.fgdl.org
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