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| BOEMRE Offshore Mapping |
This online interactive map viewer has integrated submerged lands information consisting of legal, property ownership (cadastre), physical, biological, and cultural information from multiple agencies in a common reference framework. Users can create, view, and print maps from this free, easy to use viewer, or can directly link these GIS data layers (web map services) into their own GIS applications. |
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| Habitat Priority Planner |
Part of NOAA's Digital Coast, this tool aids in making decisions about habitat conservation, restoration, and land use planning. The Habitat Priority Planner takes away much of the subjective nature of the process by providing a means of obtaining critical habitat analyses that are consistent, repeatable, and transparent. The program allows users to easily test various ideas and "what if" scenarios on the fly, making it the perfect tool to use in a group setting. |
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| Offshore Renewable Energy Planning |
Part of NOAA's Digital Coast, this resource helps stakeholders:
-Understand basic information about renewable energy planning and how a marine spatial planning approach is beneficial
-Identify information about the marine environment from a natural and human-use perspective
-Inventory data and tools to visualize components of the marine environment
-Analyze potential locations for renewable energy applications with available tools
-Discover what other coastal communities are doing to address ocean-siting issues |
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| Digital Coast |
The Digital Coast provides the tools, training, and information needed to turn data into the information most needed by coastal resource management professionals. |
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| Marine Map |
MarineMap is a web-based decision support tool for open and participatory spatial planning in the marine environment. MarineMap offers a simple, flexible and powerful means of gathering expertise from resource managers, scientists, stakeholders and public in a process of collaborative decision making. |
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| NOAA's Legislative Atlas |
A complex system of laws, organizations, and strategies govern the uses of the nation’s ocean and coastal resources. This Legislative Atlas can be used to pinpoint the laws, policies, and jurisdictions relevant to specific locations in the ocean.
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| Multipurpose Marine Cadastre |
This data viewer provides the baseline information needed for marine spatial planning efforts, particularly those that involve finding the best location for renewable energy projects. The Multipurpose Marine Cadastre (MMC) is also a helpful tool in the permit review process. Users pick the ocean geography of their choosing and quickly see the applicable jurisdictional boundaries, restricted areas, laws, critical habitat locations, and other important features. With the MMC, potential conflicts can be identified and avoided early in the planning process. |
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| MA Ocean Resource Information System (MORIS) |
An online mapping tool, the Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information System (MORIS), can be used to search and display spatial data pertaining to the Massachusetts coastal zone. Users can interactively view various data layers (e.g., tide gauge stations, marine protected areas, eelgrass beds, etc.) over a backdrop of aerial photographs, political boundaries, natural resources, human uses, bathymetry, or other data. |
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| MINOE Ocean Management Tool |
Management Identifying the Needs of Ocean Ecosystems (MINOE) is an ecosystem-based management (EBM) software program being built to assist interested parties navigate through existing laws and regulations. |
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| Ocean Biogepgraphic Information System |
With over 22.2 million records of 112,000 species from 744 databases, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) provides access to data sets from a multitude of partners documenting spatial and temporal species observations and collections. Users can view data and metadata, including geographic, temporal, or spatial extent and taxonomic depth and richness. Established by the Census of Marine Life, OBIS is an evolving strategic alliance of people and organizations sharing a vision to make marine biogeographic data from all over the world freely available and accessible over the internet. |
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| MORIS Spatial Data Layers |
The spatial information that was incorporated into the final Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan is now available in the Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information System (MORIS) online mapping tool. Users have the ability to read the metadata that accompanies each layer and combine data layers with other data to create customized maps. Also, the layers can be downloaded as industry standard ESRI shapefiles. |
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