mregions R package

mregions provides access to the data from http://www.marineregions.org in R. It uses both the Marine Regions Gazetteer Web Services and the Marine Regions OGC Web Services.

mregions can help in a variety of use cases:

- visualize marine regions alone;

- visualize marine regions with associated data paired with analysis;

- use marine region geospatial boundaries to query data providers (e.g., OBIS: http://www.iobis.org );

- Geocode: get geolocation data from place names;

- reverse Geocode: get place names from geolocation data.

Identification

Date ( Creation ): 2016-08-03

Date ( Revision ): 2017-10-07

Status: On going / operational

Version: 0.1.6

Keywords: marine

Keywords: gazetteer service

Keywords: web feature service

Keywords: R

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: https://mit-license.org/

Other constraints: https://github.com/ropensci/mregions/blob/master/LICENSE

Resource provider

Flanders Marine Institute - Marine Regions Team

Custodian

Flanders Marine Institute - Lennert Schepers

OnLine resource: mregions on Github ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: mregions on CRAN ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: Package website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Operation name: Marine Regions Gazetteer

Web site: https://marineregions.org/gazetteer.php

Description: Dealing with different names of geographic features or entities, VLIZ developed a standard, relational list of geographic names, coupled with information and maps of the geographic location of these features.

Function: The purpose of the gazetteer is to improve access and clarity of the different geographic, mainly marine names such as seas, sandbanks, ridges, bays or even standard sampling stations used in marine research.

Operation name: VLIZ GeoServer

Web site: https://geo.vliz.be

Description: The Flanders Marine Institute runs an instance of GeoServer. GeoServer publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer implements several Open Geospatial Consortium protocols including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). Additional extensions are available for Catalogue Service (CSW) and Web Processing Service (WPS).

Function: The VLIZ GeoServer is used to publish the data products developed by the Marine Regions Team.

Topic Category: Geographical names

Topic Category: Sea regions

Service Category: data analysis

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Funding: mregions has been developed by the rOpenSci project and maintained by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).

rOpenSci is a Sponsored Project of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States. NumFOCUS provides rOpenSci with fiscal, legal, and administrative support to help ensure the health and sustainability of the project. Visit numfocus.org for more information.

The maintenance and further development of mregions relies on financial contributions, the time contributed by its editorial board, and support of its host institution: VLIZ. Marine Regions is currently funded through the LifeWatch Belgium project.