The UNESCO-IODE-OBIS Office assembles and maintains a set of marine areas for summarizing and reporting on biodiversity and biogeographic characterization metrics. We register these areas in the Spatial Feature Registry for use in our own work and ties into the OBIS API. The spatial features in this dataset originate from MarineRegions.org and other sources and have been minimally processed spatially for use.
Summary
The UNESCO-IODE-OBIS Office assembles and maintains a set of marine areas for summarizing and reporting on biodiversity and biogeographic characterization metrics. We register these areas in the Spatial Feature Registry for use in our own work and ties into the OBIS API. The spatial features in this dataset originate from MarineRegions.org and other sources and have been minimally processed spatially for use.
This ScienceBase Item points to a REST API end point that inventories the OBIS Areas with their identifiers and names and an OGC service that provides the geometry for the areas based on their identifiers. These access points are used with Python code referenced with a source link into the SFR data system.
