Historical and Modern Baylands 1998 (EcoAtlas Version 1.50b4)

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The Bay Area EcoAtlas is a computer-based Geographic Information System (GIS) of past and present local ecology in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It was designed to support local and regional environmental planning and management. The EcoAtlas represents the integration of many kinds of information from numerous sources, to compile a picture of the environmental past, the present, and change. It provided the most detailed regional views of past and present ecological conditions that were available at the time of creation. It is also a spatial template to view possible scenarios for environmental management in the future, and a geographic index for spatially-related environmental data and their sources. The EcoAtlas was envisioned to be the "base map" for local and regional environmental planning and protection.

Last Updated:

Thursday, January 1, 1998

Type of Data:

GIS vector dataset

Programs and Focus Areas:

Environmental Informatics Program

Geographic Information Systems

Resilient Landscapes Program

Historical Ecology

Location Information

General Project Location(s) (Optional):

San Francisco Bay Area

Project Location(s):

Data Availability

Please Cite This Dataset as:

San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI). 1998. "Bay Area EcoAtlas V1.50b4 1998: Geographic Information System of wetland habitats past and present." Accessed [date retrieved]. http://www.sfei.org/content/ecoatlas-version-150b4-1998.

Copyright 2012 San Francisco Estuary Institute.

This file is part of EcoAtlas Version 1.50b4 1998.

EcoAtlas Version 1.50b4 1998 is free data: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

EcoAtlas Version 1.50b4 1998 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with EcoAtlas Version 1.50b4 1998. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Data File(s):

Attachment	Size
EcoAtlas_v1.50b4__SFEI_1998.zip	42.57 MB

Contact:

eigis@sfei.org

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