Spatial Metadata

Metadata is data about data. For spatial data, metadata provides information such as content, quality, condition, and restrictions of the data set. The metadata provided here is compliant with the Federal Geographic Data Committee’s (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, except where noted. The FGDC’s document can be found on the web at https://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/csdgm/.

The spatial data for the CPC Ecuador Projects fall into two categories: Publicly Available and Restricted. The metadata for the Publicly Available data are listed below, and separated into categories. Those that are listed but do not have a hyperlink will be posted in the near future.

The metadata for the Restricted data will not be posted on this website.

VECTOR DATA

Political & Cultural

Study Area Boundaries

Transportation

Physical Landscape

Geodetic Control

Topography

RASTER DATA

Topography

General Land Use & Land Cover

Detailed Land Use & Land Cover

REMOTELY-SENSED IMAGERY

[The metadata below are not FGDC-compliant. Rather, they are descriptions of the data set collections for each of the image sources. This difference is due to the large number of data sets that we have.]