North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frame: Alaska and Canada

This shapefile represents the offshore grid-based sampling frame intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). The grid consists of 10 km x 10 km cells spanning the oceanic waters surrounding Alaska and Canada.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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identifier USGS:61bcfea0d34ee9cd54ed25ed
metadata_type geospatial
modified 20220125
old-spatial -179.2969, 41.1125, -47.6367, 90.0000
publisher U.S. Geological Survey
publisher_hierarchy Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey
resource-type Dataset
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spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-179.2969, 41.1125], [-179.2969, 90.0000], [ -47.6367, 90.0000], [ -47.6367, 41.1125], [-179.2969, 41.1125]]]}
theme {geospatial}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • alaska
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • bats
  • biota
  • canada
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • grid
  • nabat
  • national
  • north-america
  • sample-frame
  • united-states
  • usgs-61bcfea0d34ee9cd54ed25ed
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer Brian E Reichert
maintainer_email breichert@usgs.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T06:05:50.317995
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T06:05:50.317998
notes This shapefile represents the offshore grid-based sampling frame intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). The grid consists of 10 km x 10 km cells spanning the oceanic waters surrounding Alaska and Canada.
num_resources 2
num_tags 16
title North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frame: Alaska and Canada