Global Lakes and Wetlands Database - Level 1 (large lakes and reservoirs)

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
Level 1 of the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD) comprises the shoreline polygons of the largest lakes (area >= 50 square km) and reservoirs (storage capacity >= 0.5 cubic km) worldwide, including extensive attribute data.
Citation
Title Global Lakes and Wetlands Database - Level 1 (large lakes and reservoirs)
Original Data Basin Creation Date  Date   2010-07-01
Original Data Basin Modified Date  Date   2010-07-01
Topic Category:  geoscientificInformation
Keywords:
Keywords
wetlands
reservoirs
lakes
thesaurus name >
Title Data Basin
revision  Date   2018-06-27
Theme keywords (theme):
Lake
Reservoir
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Hydrologic Feature
publication  Date   2018-06-27
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Jun 27 22:39:09 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Shoreline
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Marine Feature
publication  Date   2018-06-27
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Jun 27 22:39:09 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Conservation Biology Institute
thesaurus name >
Title Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Corporate Names
publication  Date   2018-06-27
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Jun 27 22:39:09 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Capacity
thesaurus name >
Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2018-06-27
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Jun 27 22:39:09 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Wetland
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Environmental Feature
publication  Date   2018-06-27
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Jun 27 22:39:09 UTC 2018
Resource language:  eng
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -178.8711
eastBoundLongitude  179.995
northBoundLatitude  81.9818
southBoundLatitude  -54.6059
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URL: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/537f6c6ae4b021317a87276a
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
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target application profile  Web Browser
Linkage for online resource
name Owner Profile Page
URL: http://databasin.org/people/consbio
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Web Link
target application profile  Web Browser

Metadata data stamp:  2014-05-23T15:42:34Z
Metadata Constraints
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
none
Metadata contact - owner
organisation Name  Conservation Biology Institute
Contact information
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO19115
standard version:  1.0
Metadata record identifier:  537f6c6ae4b021317a87276a
URI for dataset described: > https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/537f6c6ae4b021317a87276a

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)