eez: Exclusice Economic Zone of countries boundaries

In ldbk/EMISR: EMIS and GMIS data extraction and analyses

Description

The shapefile of the Exclusice Economic Zone of countries EEZ boundaries was downloaded from http://www.marineregions.org the 05/12/2014. The shapefile was converted in SpatialPolygonsDataFrame using rgdal: \cote eez<-readOGR("World_EEZ_v8_20140228","World_EEZ_v8_2014_HR",encoding="Latin1") then eez was saved in the rdata format. This database can be accessed using webservices at http://www.marineregions.org/webservices.php.

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 249 features

Details

14 variables described the EEZ (names, countries...), see the references for more information.

Source

http://www.marineregions.org

References

Claus S., N. De Hauwere, B. Vanhoorne, F. Souza Dias, F. Hernandez, and J. Mees (Flanders Marine Institute) (2014). MarineRegions.org. Accessed at http://www.marineregions.org on 2014-12-05.

Examples

## Not run: 
     #extraction of EEZ of the european countries
	europe<-c("Austria","Belgium","Bulgaria","Croatia","Cyprus","CzechRepublic","Denmark",
               "Estonia","Finland","France","Germany","Greece","Hungary","Ireland",
               "Italy","Latvia","Lithuania","Luxembourg","Malta","Netherlands","Poland",
               "Portugal","Romania","Slovakia","Slovenia","Spain","Sweden","United Kingdom")
     eez_europe<-eez[eez@data$Country%in%europe,]
     plot(eez_europe)
  
## End(Not run)

ldbk/EMISR documentation built on May 20, 2019, 11:28 p.m.