Circumpolar Map of Resources at Risk from Oil Spills in the Arctic
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Description and organisation of the project input data

Description of data themes and format:

The basic unit of organising our data is themes, using the following naming convention:

CCGTTO where

CC is country code: CA for Canada, FI for Finland, NO for Norway, SW for Sweden, GR for Denmark/Greenland, IC for Iceland, RU for Russia and US for USA.

G is the Group: O for Potential Sources of Oil spills, B for Biological Resources at Risk, H for Human Subsistence Communities and P for Protected Areas. (if required, M for maps is used)

TT is the Theme: PA for Production Area, EA for Exploration Area TR for Transport Routes, ST for Storage Terminals and Refineries, AO for Areas of Occurrence, MP for Migration Pathways, CA for Community Areas and RA for Protected Areas.

O is the Type of object: P for Points, L for Lines and A for Areas/Polygons

An example: NOrway sends a theme with data about sources of Oil spill, Transport Lines. The theme is of type Point. If the data is transferred as Windows ArcView shapefiles, it should be represented by the following 3 files: NOOTRP.shx, NOOTRP.shp and NOOTRP.dbf. If it is sent as coverage, the main "coverage-directory" will be named as: NOOTRP

All themes are represented with geographic co-ordinates (in decimal degrees, no datum, no projection).

In addition to the data files, also an additional text file (*.txt) is included containing basic information such as: organisation responsible for the data, owner of data, contact person, date of data production, and any other comments or instructions that you would find useful for our future work. This text file should have the same name as the shapefile or coverage, but with the "txt" extension, (e.g. NOOTLP.txt).

Potential Sources of Oil spills

Production Areas (PAID):

Attribute Data type (size) Values
PAID String (13) See description below for format
Name String (50) Name of Production Area
Status String (8) "Current", or "Future" (choose one, "Future" means within 5 years)
CrudeOil String (3) Is Crude oil a product for actual area? Type: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
GasCond String (3) Is Gas or Condensate a product for actual area: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Volume Number (10) Total Volume: For Liquids: barrels/day. For Gas: m3/day
Summer String (3) Is Summer (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Winter String (3) Is Winter (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Breakup String (3) Is Break-Up (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Freezeup String (3) Is Freeze-Up (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)

The PAID is composed of characters as described for Themes, but with unique numbers in addition, CCGTTON where CC is country code, G is the Group, TT is the Theme, O is the Type of object and N is an unique number, starting from 1.

Exploration Areas (EAID):

Attribute Data type (size) Values
EAID String (13) See description below for format
Name String (50) Name of Exploration Area
Status String (8) "Current", or "Future" (choose one, "Future" means within 5 years)
CrudeOil String (3) Is Crude oil a product for actual area? Type "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
GasCond String (3) Is Gas or Condensate a product for actual area: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Summer String (3) Is Summer (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Winter String (3) Is Winter (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Break-up String (3) Is Break-Up (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)
Freeze-up String (3) Is Freeze-Up (one of) the seasons of activity: "y" (yes) or "n" (no)

The EAID is composed of characters as described for Themes, but with unique numbers in addition, CCGTTON where CC is country code, G is the Group, TT is the Theme, O is the Type of object and N is an unique number, starting from 1 (please order sequentially)

Example of EAID:

Canada sends a theme with data about Sources of Oil Spill, Exploration Areas. The theme is of type: Area. Then the first record will have an ID like: CAOEAA1.