Date (Creation)

2013-08-28

Date (Publication)

2013-08-28

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Helsinki Commission	Joni Kaitaranta		Processor

Presentation form

Digital map

Theme

• Baltic Sea

• sub-basin

• HELCOM

Place

• Baltic Sea

• Northern Europe

Access constraints

otherRestictions

Use constraints

otherRestictions

Other constraints

Data can be used freely given that the source (HELCOM) is cited.

Other constraints

Data is available under the terms of the ICES Data Policy. (See: https://ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx)

Spatial representation type

Vector

Language

en

Topic category

• Boundaries
• Geoscientific information
• Oceans

Environment description

Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000

Supplemental Information

HELCOM assessment units in subbasin scale as defined in the new HELCOM Monitoring and Assessment Strategy http://www.helcom.fi/Documents/Action%20areas/Monitoring%20and%20assessment/Monitoring%20and%20assessment%20strategy/Monitoring%20and%20assessment%20strategy.pdf published in 2013.

Subbasin divisioning is indicated as polygons in this dataset.

Reference system identifier

ETRS_1989_LAEA

Topology level

Geometry only

Geometric object type

Complex

Geometric object count

17

Units of distribution

MB

Transfer size

13.046

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/index.html
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://gis.ices.dk/gis/rest/services/External_reference_layers/HELCOM_subbasins/MapServer	ArcGIS Server

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Dataset has been prepared based on polygons of HELCOM open sea basins and merged to WFD water types and water bodies as submitted by HELCOM contracting parties. Dataset was generalized using ET Geowizards tool to reduce the file size by reducing the amount of vertices in the coastal areas.

Metadata

File identifier

225df9db-bfdf-4388-8ccb-fa4b99053a36 XML

Metadata language

en

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2020-01-15T12:02:04

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Helsinki Commission	Joni Kaitaranta		Point of contact