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The College of The Bahamas :: Oakes Field :: P.O. Box N-4912 :: Nassau, The Bahamas
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Managing Natural Resource Information of the Nation
The Bahamas National GIS Centre has advocated a partnership approach to the development, maintenance and sharing of GIS data layers for The Bahamas. Natural resource information presents a unique type of spatial information. Natural resource data sets include:
- Land cover classification and vegetation community maps
- Seafloor mapping of shallow water marine habitats
- Locations of important natural features such as blue holes, caves and mangrove creeks
- Locations of important national parks and designated wildlife reserves, and
- Critical wildlife areas such as turtle nesting beaches, fish spawning aggregations and bird nesting areas.
The resolution needs of natural resource data are often not as rigorous as other datanets that may include infrastructure location and property boundaries. Natural resource mapping is likely to be synoptic in scale and scope, covering the entire archipelago as one ecological unit.
The College of The Bahamas Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences working with the Marine and Environmental Studies Institute (MESI) have set up a GIS laboratory focused on the natural resource mapping of The Bahamas. The basic data layers are presented in a standard ARC-GIS format with metadata to be shared with collaborating Bahamian government ministries and organizations.
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The College of The Bahamas :: Oakes Field :: P.O. Box N-4912 :: Nassau, The Bahamas :: Tel (242) 302.4300 :: Email cob@cob.edu.bs
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