IE GSI GSRO Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 200 Nautical Mile Maritime Limit Irish Waters WGS84

ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  IE GSI GSRO Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 200 Nautical Mile Maritime Limit Irish Waters WGS84
Alternate titles:  Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 200 NM

Reference date - publication:  2019-09-12

Presentation format:  mapDigital

Collection title: UNCLOS Article 56 Exclusive Economic Zone

Unique resource identifier:
Value: AM_IE_GeologicalSurveyIreland_MarineInstitute_GSRO_IrishExclusiveEconomicZone200NM_MaritimeLimit_Inshore_IE_WGS84

Party responsible for the resource - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Marine and Coastal Unit
Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland
Contact's position: Head of Marine and Coastal Unit

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: +353-1-6782896
Address:
Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown Avenue
City: Booterstown
Administrative area: Co. Dublin
Postal code: A94 N2R6
Country:  IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie
Party responsible for the resource - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Advanced Mapping Services
Organization's name: Marine Institute
Contact's position: Section Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: +353-91-387200
Fax: +353-91-387201
Address:
Delivery point: Rinville
City: Oranmore
Administrative area: Co. Galway
Postal code: H91 R673
Country:  IE
e-mail address: datarequests@marine.ie
Themes or categories of the resource:  boundaries, environment, oceans

Discipline keywords:
Keywords:  geoscience

Thesaurus name:
Title:  © 2024 Dictionary.com, LLC
Alternate titles:  Dictionary.com

Reference date - publication:  2024-01-01

Collection title: Collins English Dictionary

Discipline keywords:
Keywords:  science; geography; hydrography

Thesaurus name:
Title:  GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3, 6 Dec 2021
Alternate titles:  GEMET - Concepts

Reference date - publication:  2021-12-06

Collection title: GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

Place keywords:
Keywords:  Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W), Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and St. George's Channel, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland

Thesaurus name:
Title:  SeaDataNet sea areas
Alternate titles:  SDN sea areas

Reference date - publication:  1954-01-01

Collection title: British Oceanographic Data Centre C16

Place keywords:
Keywords:  Ireland

Thesaurus name:
Title:  Metadata Registry of the Publications Office of the EU Named Authority Lists - Country
Alternate titles:  MDR-COUNTRIES

Reference date - publication:  2015-03-18

Collection title: EU Named Authority Lists

Stratum keywords:
Keywords:  hydrosphere

Thesaurus name:
Title:  GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.3, 6 Dec 2021
Alternate titles:  GEMET - Themes

Reference date - publication:  2021-12-06

Collection title: GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

Temporal keywords:
Keywords:  December; 1982; February; 2014; July; 2021

Thesaurus name:
Title:  DBPEDIA Open Knowledge Graph
Alternate titles:  DBPEDIA OKG

Reference date - publication:  2024-04-09

Collection title: https://www.dbpedia.org/

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  Administrative units

Thesaurus name:
Title:  GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Alternate titles:  GEMET - INSPIRE themes

Reference date - publication:  2008-06-01

Collection title: GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  Territorial waters; Exclusive economic zone; EEZ

Thesaurus name:
Title:  WIKIPEDIA THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Alternate titles:  WIKIPEDIA

Reference date - publication:  2024-04-04T22:00:00

Collection title: http://en.wikipedia.org

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  maritime law; law (corpus of rules)

Thesaurus name:
Title:  GEMET - Alphabetic listings, version 4.2.3, 6 Dec 2021
Alternate titles:  GEMET - Alphabetic listings

Reference date - publication:  2021-12-06

Collection title: GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  IE/GSI, IE/MI

Thesaurus name:
Title:  Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 9.1.5
Alternate titles:  GCMD Data Center Keywords

Reference date - publication:  2016-08-04

Collection title: Global Change Master Directory

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  National

Thesaurus name:
Title:  INSPIRE Spatial Scope Code List Register
Alternate titles:  INSPIRE Spatial Scope Registry

Reference date - publication:  2019-05-22

Collection title: INSPIRE Spatial Scope

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Abstract:  The exclusive economic zone is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, subject to the specific legal regime established in this Part, under which the rights and jurisdiction of the coastal State and the rights and freedoms of other States are governed by the relevant provisions of this Convention. An exclusive economic zone, as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.It stretches from the outer limit of the territorial sea (22.224 Km or 12 NM from the baseline) out to a maximum of 370.4 Km (or 200 nautical miles) from the coast of the state in question. It is also referred to as a maritime continental margin and, in colloquial usage, may include the continental shelf. The term does not include either the territorial sea or the continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical mile limit. The difference between the territorial sea and the exclusive economic zone is that the first confers full sovereignty over the waters, whereas the second is merely a "sovereign right" which refers to the coastal state's rights below the surface of the sea. The surface waters are international waters.It is a vector dataset. Vector data portrays the world using points, lines and polygons (areas). The data is shown as a line.

Purpose: The marine area is important to Ireland and its citizens as it supports aquaculture, fisheries, shipping, tourism, recreation, and energy enterprises.

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Maintenance:
Update frequency:  asNeeded


Resource constraints:
Constraints:
Limitations of use: Data that is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeUnder the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application. Please use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geoscience Regulatory Office) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence".In cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:  license
Use constraints:  license

Other constraints: License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Legal Code - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Limitations of use: Creative Commons International Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence conditions apply

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Spatial representation type:  vector

Processing environment:  Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.9.1.28388

Spatial resolution:
Dataset's scale:
Scale denominator: 50000
Spatial resolution:
Ground sample distance: 200 [nmi_i]
Extent:
Extent description: Ireland; Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W), Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and St. George's Channel, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland

Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -16.090852
East longitude: -5.272312
North latitude: 56.7
South latitude: 48.180188
2021-07-22T00:00:00
Supplemental information: Description of measurements/samples, purpose for which they were collected, and the platforms/instrumentation and methods in collection S.I. No. 86/2014 - Maritime Jurisdiction (Boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zone) Order 2014 Exclusive economic zone 13. (1) The exclusive economic zone of the State is that portion of the sea that lies between the outer limit of the territorial sea and the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone. (2) The Government may by order prescribe the line of delimitation of a part of the exclusive economic zone of the State in accordance with article 74 of the Convention. (3) The Maritime Jurisdiction (Boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zone) Order 2014 ( S.I. No. 86 of 2014 ) shall continue in operation and have effect on and after the commencement of paragraph (b) of section 4 as if made under this section, and may be amended or revoked accordingly. (4) In this section “outer limit of the exclusive economic zone” means— (a) the line every point of which is at a distance of 200 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline, (b) in relation to a part of the exclusive economic zone to which an order under subsection (2) for the time being applies, the line of delimitation prescribed by that order, or (c) in relation to a part of the exclusive economic zone to which the Order referred to in subsection (3) for the time being applies, the boundaries of the exclusive economic zone of the State described in articles 2 and 3 of that Order. Statement on the level of data processed and quality control, limitations on reliability See lineage statement for full data processing history. Arrangement of data Data has been processed and arranged into a vector polyline shapefile uploaded to ArcGIS system. Spatial and temporal resolution of data within the dataset Not applicable Length of time series United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted at Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1982 at the conclusion of nine years of negotiations. The Convention, which contains 320 articles and nine annexes, deals comprehensively with all issues relating to the use of the world’s seas and oceans and has been described as the ‘Constitution of the Oceans’. Ireland ratified the Convention on 21 June 1996. UNCLOS sets out the rights and duties of states in different maritime zones (such as the territorial sea, the continental shelf, the exclusive economic zone and the high seas), regulates marine scientific research and exploitation of living and non-living natural resources, and makes extensive provision for protection of the marine environment. UNCLOS established the International Seabed Authority to regulate certain activities on the seabed of the deep ocean beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to determine legal disputes between states. It also established the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to examine scientific data gathered by states seeking to extend their continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles and to make recommendations on where their outer limits should be established. In Ireland, the Minister for Foreign Affairs has primary responsibility for establishing the State's international boundaries, including its maritime boundaries. Provision in domestic law for the various maritime zones and boundaries is currently made in Part 3 of the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (which replaced the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 1959), and the 1968 Continental Shelf Act. The State's maritime jurisdiction law was consolidated and updated with the enactment of the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021. Amount of data expressed in number of stations, sites, observations, cores, months of recordings, miles of track or other units as appropriate 200 nautical miles measurement from Irelands Straight Baselines; Irish Territorial Sea and mean Low Water Mark (LWM)

Credits: Geoscience Regulatory Office

Point of contact - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Marine and Coastal Unit
Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland
Contact's position: Head of Marine and Coastal Unit

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: +353-1-6782000
Fax: +353-1-6782549
Address:
Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown Avenue
City: Booterstown
Administrative area: Co. Dublin
Postal code: D04 K7X4
Country:  IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie
Point of contact - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Advanced Mapping Services
Organization's name: Marine Institute
Contact's position: Section Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: +353-91-387200
Fax: +353-91-387201
Address:
Delivery point: Rinville
City: Oranmore
Administrative area: Co. Galway
Postal code: H91 R673
Country:  IE
e-mail address: datarequests@marine.ie

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite
Object count: 3

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 4326
Authority that defines the value:
Title:  European Petroleum Survey Group
Alternate titles:  EPSG

Reference date - publication:  2007-07-28

Collection title: EPSG Code

Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.2(3.0.1)

Data Quality Information:

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset

Lineage:
Lineage statement: Data generated by the former Petroleum Affairs Division (PAD) now known as the Geoscience Regulatory Office (GSRO) within the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) following S.I. No. 86/2014 - Maritime Jurisdiction (Boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zone) Order 2014 reference latitude and longitude values. This Order may be cited as the Maritime Jurisdiction (Boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zone) Order 2014. (2) This Order shall come into operation on 31 March 2014. 2. The boundary of the exclusive economic zone of the State in the Irish Sea and the Celtic Sea is formed by a series of geodesic lines connecting the following points defined by co-ordinates of latitude and longitude on the World Geodetic System 1984 datum (WGS 1984), in the sequence given below: 1. Data downloaded as shapefile from Maritime Boundaries Zip from GSRO Spatial Data Downloads @ http://spatial.dcenr.gov.ie/PAD_DOWNLOAD/Maritime_Boundaries.zip 2. Shapefile unzipped on local machine 3. Shapefile added to ArcGIS Pro Map for geometry and attribute quality control check 4. Shapefile imported into GSI's ArcGIS Enterprise geodatabase as vector feature class. 5. Data processed using ArcGIS Pro 3.2.1. Symbology for "AU.ExclusiveEconomicZone" applied using INSPIRE Administrative units Portrayal using rendered pink (#E4B2DD) colour. 6. GSI standard metadata based on INSPIRE and ISO 19115-3 standards created.

Data quality report - Domain consistency:
Type of test:  directInternal

Evaluation method: Data analysis internal to the database structure

Conformance test results:
Test passed: true
Meaning of the result: The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Description of conformance requirements:
Title:  INSPIRE Administrative Units Data Specification
Alternate titles:  INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes

Reference date - publication:  2013-10-13

Collection title: INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes

Distribution Information:

Distributor:
Distributor information - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Geoscience Regulatory Office (GSRO)
Organization's name: Department of the Environment, Climate & Communications (DECC)
Contact's position: Head of Geoscience Regulatory Office

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: +353-1-6782000
Address:
Delivery point: 29-31 Adelaide Road
Administrative area: Dublin 2
Postal code: D02 X285
Country:  IE
e-mail address: gsro@decc.gov.ie
Format:
Format name: Feature Class
Format version: v10.x

Transfer options:

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2024-06-13
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  asNeeded



Metadata contact - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Information Management
Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland
Contact's position: Head of Information Management

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: +353-1-6782896
Address:
Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown Avenue
City: Booterstown
Administrative area: Co. Dublin
Postal code: A94 N2R6
Country:  IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie
Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
Version of the metadata standard: V. 1.2

Metadata identifier: MD_AM_IE_GeologicalSurveyIreland_MarineInstitute_GSRO_IrishExclusiveEconomicZone200NM_MaritimeLimit_Inshore_IE_WGS84
Parent identifier: GSI Irish Geoscience Data Centre (IGDC) UUID
URI of the data described by the metadata: AM_IE_GeologicalSurveyIreland_MarineInstitute_GSRO_IrishExclusiveEconomicZone200NM_MaritimeLimit_Inshore_IE_WGS84