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- description: Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps are an integral component in oil-spill contingency planning and assessment.
They serve as a source of information in the event of an oil spill incident. ESI maps contain three types of information:
shoreline habitats (classified according to their sensitivity to oiling), sensitive biological resources, and human-use resources.
Most often, this information is plotted on 7.5 minute USGS quadrangles, although in the Alaska ESI maps, USGS topographic
maps at scales of 1:63,360 and 1:250,000 are used, and in other ESI maps, NOAA charts have been used as the base map. Collections
of these maps, grouped by state or a logical geographic area, are published as ESI atlases. Digital data have been published
for most of the U.S. shoreline, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.; abstract: Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI)
maps are an integral component in oil-spill contingency planning and assessment. They serve as a source of information in
the event of an oil spill incident. ESI maps contain three types of information: shoreline habitats (classified according
to their sensitivity to oiling), sensitive biological resources, and human-use resources. Most often, this information is
plotted on 7.5 minute USGS quadrangles, although in the Alaska ESI maps, USGS topographic maps at scales of 1:63,360 and 1:250,000
are used, and in other ESI maps, NOAA charts have been used as the base map. Collections of these maps, grouped by state or
a logical geographic area, are published as ESI atlases. Digital data have been published for most of the U.S. shoreline,
including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
Citation
- Title ESI-VI14, Anegada U.K. Virgin Islands 2000 (Environmental Sensitivity Index Map).
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2018-02-07T20:06:30.454348
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CINERGI Metadata catalog
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2007
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urn:dciso:metadataabout:85791890-6ee4-4317-a1c8-27663b38066f
Metadata record format is ISO19139 XML (MD_Metadata)