mpa1: Marine protected area database description

Description Format Details Source References

Description

The shapefile of the marine protected area (MPA) was downloaded from http://www.protectedplanet.net the 03/12/2014. The shapefile was converted in SpatialPolygonsDataFrame using rgdal: mpa<-readOGR("EMISR/data/mpa/","mpa",encoding="Latin1") then mpa was splitted in two: mpa1 and mpa2.

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 4000 features (the first 4000 MPA according to their wdpaid)

Details

No projection system is available for this SpatialPolygonsDataFrame due to coordinates problem. 26 variables are available, describing the mpa characteristics (see reference).

Source

http://www.protectedplanet.net

References

UNEP-WCMC (2012). Data Standards for the World Database on Protected Areas. UNEP-WCMC: Cambridge, UK.


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