EMISR: EMIS and GMIS data extraction and analyses

#' Exclusice Economic Zone of countries boundaries
#'
#' The shapefile of the Exclusice Economic Zone of countries EEZ boundaries 
#' was downloaded from
#' \url{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 \url{http://www.marineregions.org/webservices.php}.
#'
#' 14 variables described the EEZ (names, countries...), see the references for more information.
#'
#' @format A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 249 features 
#' @source \url{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
#'   \dontrun{
#'      #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)
#'   } 
#'
#' @name eez 
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