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The Puerto Rico Digital Layers

Cities

United States Geological Survey.  1996.  Cities and Towns of the United States.  National Atlas of the United States.  http://www.nationalatlas.gov/.

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Airports

Originator: National Imagery and Mapping Agency, 1997. Vector Map Level 0 (Digital Chart of the World)     Edition: 3.  National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Fairfax, VA.  http://www.nima.mil/cda/article/0,2311,3104_12137_114494,00.html

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Hydrology

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with other State and local partners.  1999.  National Hydrography Datatset - High resolution.  USGS, Reston, Virginia.  http://nhd.usgs.gov/.

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NOAA Reef Areas and Puerto Rico Outline

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Biogeography Program.  2001.  Benthic Habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  CD-ROM.  Silver Spring, MD:  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  http://biogeo.nos.noaa.gov/products/benthic/.

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LandSat 5 Image

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).  Publication Date Varies.  Landsat Thematic Mapper (Landsat 5) Imagery for Puerto Rico.  U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD.   http://edc.usgs.gov/products/satellite/tm.html.  Data acquired from the Global Landcover Facility:  http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu.

Elevation, Hillshade and Slope

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), EROS Data Center.  1999.  National Elevation Dataset.  U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD.  http://gisdata.usgs.net/NED.  Hillshade and Slope developed at the National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE). http://www.ncoremiami.org.

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Bathymetry (Test interp.)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)  2001.  Puerto Rico Bathymetry Files.    Puerto Rico Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Program.  http://poseidon.uprm.edu/  Translated into ArcGIS format by the National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE). http://www.ncoremiami.org.

The available data were collected, edited and compiled by Johnathan Kool.

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