Service Description: The goal of this study was to gather data on coastal and ocean recreation spatial use patterns to inform marine planning efforts in the U.S. Mid Atlantic region. The following is a description of the methods used to create the data for the Mid Atlantic Coastal and Ocean Recreation Study. The data were collected through an online survey deployed from July 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. The survey respondents provided spatial information by placing a marker to indicate where they recreated on the coast in the last 12 months. The activity points used for this shore-based grouping were kayaking/paddling, swimming, windsurfing, kite boarding, skim boarding, and surfing. This dataset shows a 1 kilometer by 1 kilometer planning unit grid that the surface water-based activity points were summarized to.
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Description: The data is displayed using a 1 kilometer by 1 kilometer grid for the U.S. Mid Atlantic coastline and offshore areas. The grid was created in ArcGIS 10.1 using the "Create Fishnet" tool. A polygon shapefile was created covering the extent of the Mid Atlantic region and was used as the feature class the grid was created from. After the grid was created, a union was run to remove the grid cells that fell inland of the medium-resolution NOAA coastline. The final result was the 1 kilometer by 1 kilometer planning unit grid extending from New York down to Virginia, following the coastline, and extending offshore far enough to intersect all activity points. The grouped activity points were merged together and summarized to the planning unit grid, leaving each cell with a value equal to the number of points that fell within that cell. In the attribute table, the number of each individual activity that make up the activity group is available to see what activities took place within that particular cell.
Copyright Text: Point 97, Surfrider Foundation, Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University, and The Nature Conservancy
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