African Marine Atlas

The African Marine Atlas includes a series of online web maps situated around Africa’s coasts and marine areas. Several data sources are provided and much of the geodata can be downloaded for use.

The purpose of the African Marine Atlas (AMA) is to identify, collect and organize available geospatial datasets into an atlas of environmental themes for Africa, under the sponsorship of the ODINAFRICA Project of theIntergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC) International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Programme. The African Marine Atlas will include and involve a number of other geo-spatial data projects on and around the African continent.

At the present time, the majority of the data layers in the African Marine Atlas are continental-scale, but the structure of this interface already allows for the inclusions of national- and local-scale layers. All the African Marine Atlas datasets, images and grids use the standard GIS mapping convention of signed decimal degrees, with longitudes ranging from -180 to +180 (i.e. not 0 to 360). No data are projected, and as far as can be determined all data products are provided in "geographic coordinates" using the WGS84 Datum, in absence of other information. Seasonal references in the datasets refer to the northern (boreal) seasons (i.e. winter ranges from January to March), unless otherwise stated.

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Related content: Online African Marine Atlas; Africa: Atlas of our Changing Environment; World Bank Launches e-Atlas of Global Development; Free Downloadable GIS Viewer from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; Global Operational Oceanographic Systems: A Workshop to Explore Collaborative Benefits Between North American and European Operators; Improving the Synoptic Mapping of Coral Reef Geomorphology using Object-based Image Analysis

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