Turks and Caicos Island - Coastal habitat map - wetland types
This dataset comprises classification of the coastal areas of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The dataset covers the area of land that extends between shoreline and coastline as well as from the coastline inland to the first major change in the terrain features, which are not influenced by the coastal processes. It includes beaches, tidal areas, dunes, cliffs, etc.
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91000
Language
English
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857
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The coastal habitats were identified using Google Earth and Bing imagery, aerial and satellite images available in DECR, and Turks and Caicos Terrestrial Habitat Map. SAERI cleaned the map in mapshaper.com using the -clean function and edited the data to fit with the Data Exchange Format. SAERI translated the column type contained in the original dataset to ORIG_HAB in the new Data Exchange Format. Some polygons were present in the original dataset that did not have a type assigned; these were removed by SAERI during the data processing.