chesapeake: UTM shapefile of the Chesapeake Bay

Description Usage Format Source

Description

UTM shapefile of the Chesapeake Bay

Usage

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Format

A large spatial polygons data frame

System

System identifiers of ploygons. Factor with 15 levels:

  • Choptank River

  • Elizabeth River

  • James River

  • Lower Bay

  • Lower Eastern Shore (Tangier)

  • Lower Western Shore (MD)

  • Mid Bay

  • Patapsco and Back Rivers

  • Patuxent River

  • Potomac River

  • Rappahannock River

  • Upper Bay

  • Upper Eastern Shore

  • Upper Western Shore

  • York River

Source

Shapefile used by the Integration and Application Network for the Chesapeake Bay Report Card. More information in: Michael Williams, Ben Longstaff, Claire Buchanan, Roberto Llansó, William Dennison, Development and evaluation of a spatially-explicit index of Chesapeake Bay health, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 59, Issues 1-3, 2009, Pages 14-25.


mhpob/TelemetryR documentation built on Sept. 28, 2020, 11:33 a.m.