WRI Major Watersheds of the World Delineation
WRIBASIN: Watersheds of the World published by the World Resources Institute, A cleaned version of this watershed delineation enhanced to include WRI's original publication attributes. The WRIBASIN shapefile data layer is comprised of 254 derivative vector major river basins features derived based on ~250 000 cell data originally from WRI-Rutgers. Data processing is complete globally, this is an African subset.
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- Date ( Creation )
- 07/11/2006
- Edition
- Second
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- Broad delineation of major basins, State of Environment.
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
FAO - Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service (FIMA)
-
Jose Aguilar-Manjarrez
(
Fishery Resource Officer
)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
,
Rome
,
00153
,
Italy
Originator
World Resources Institute (WSofW) - Watersheds of the World
-
(
)
-8540
10 G Street NE Suite 800
,
Washington, DC
,
20002
,
USA
-8530
-8540
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- major river basins
- water
- environment
- hydrology
- Keywords ( Place )
-
- Global
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 65000000
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 1995
- End date
- 2003
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- Supplemental Information
- This map��is�part of a publication entitled: ?Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.,;Aguilar-Manjarrez, J. & Riva, C. 2007. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. CIFA Technical Paper, No. 33. FAO, Rome. 340 pp. Includes 1 DVD?.
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Complex
- Units of distribution
- shapefile
- Protocol
- WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
- OnLine resource
-
WRI Major Watersheds of the World Delineation
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
WRI Major Watersheds of the World Delineation
- Protocol
- OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 1ef96ed0-aa3a-11db-a759-000d939bc5d8 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2007-01-22T18:00:54
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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Spatial extent
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