Included Data Sources
Vegetation - Suisun Marsh 2006
This is part of an ongoing monitoring project that the Biogeographic Data Branch of the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), in collaboration with the Department of Water Resources and the DFG Water Branch, started in 1999 to track changes in the Suisun Marsh vegetation over time.
Vegetation - Suisun Marsh 2009
This is part of an ongoing monitoring project that the Biogeographic Data Branch of the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), in collaboration with the Department of Water Resources and the DFG Water Branch, started in 1999 to track changes in the Suisun Marsh vegetation over time.
Active Renewable Energy Leases
Areas of Special Biological Concern data system
Areas of Special Biological Significance
This data set details State Water Quality Protection Areas (SWQPA) formely known as Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS). SWQPA are under State Water Resources Control Board jurisdiction. Areas of Special Biological Significance status limits water quality impacts by prohibiting point source and storm drain discharges.pendix VII.
Beach Erosion Areas of Concern
Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup (CSMW) efforts are primarily coordinated through development of the California Sediment Master Plan (SMP), which lays out a number of objectives, goals and tasks to implement Regional Sediment Management (RSM) through...
Beach Nourishment History (1920s to 2000)
This is a dataset of beach nourishment history for the California Coastline from the 1920s to 2000. The original data was in tabular form (an Excel spreadsheet) and was compiled by Melanie Coyne while she was a NOAA fellow with the California Coastal Comm...
California bathymetry layers
California Coastal Zone Map
California Coastal Zone means that land and water area of the State of California from the Oregon border to the border of the Republic of Mexico, extending seaward to the state's outer limit of jurisdiction, including all offshore islands, and extending i...
California Eelgrass
California open coast eelgrass locations compiled by California Department of Fish and Game biologists.
California Ocean Uses Atlas
California Seafloor Mapping
California Shoreline Mapping
California's Marine Protected Areas
These data include all of California's state marine protected areas (MPAs) as of December 19, 2012.
Central California Shoreline Change
Three historical and one modern vector shorelines and a shore-normal transect for long-term shoreline change rates for sandy shoreline in Central CA.
Coastal Access
Cartographic representation of locations providing access to the coast.
Coastal Armoring
Coastal armoring along the coast of California, created to provide a database of all existing coastal armoring based on data available at the time of creation. Dataset developed by Jennifer Dare at the California Coastal Commission.
Coastal Conditions
Coastline depicting coastal feature type, coast name, the role of the feature in the littoral cell, potential sediment sources, jurisdiction, and site description.
Coastal Dams
National Inventory of Dams Coastal California Extract.
Coastal Sand Deposits
Beach deposits for the California coast, extracted from geologic maps at various scales and dates. Beach deposits refer specifically to sand.
Coastal Sediment Master Plan Spatial Database
The Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) is conducting initial Plan activities for the central SF Bay to the Golden Gate.
Coastal Structures
Coastal Wetlands
A filtered subset of wetland polygons from the National Wetlands Inventory that are below or within 100 meters of the MHHW line.
Coastal Zone boundary
County boundaries
DFG Boundaries
DFG - California Wildlife Habitat Relationships (CWHR)
DFG Habitat Conservation Boundaries
DFG Management Layers
Harbors
Generalized cartographic representation of ports and harbors.
Impacts of Sea Level Rise on California Coast
Kelp Canopy
This dataset represents the 2009 aerial kelp survey. The imagery was collected on October 01, 2009 from an altitude of 12,500 feet. Surveys were planned to coincide with periods of minimal change between high and low tides, to avoid strong tidal induced currents. This dataset is complete at this time, although the user should note any omissions.
Least Tern Nesting Area
Littoral Cells
Littoral cells along the California Coast.
Littoral Cells
California’s littoral cells were originally digitized by Melanie Coyne from the Assessment and Atlas of Shoreline Erosion Along the California Coast (Habel, J. S. and G. A. Armstrong, 1978). Cells were revised in 2005 by Kiki Patsch to refine certain cells and add sediment budget information. The coastline of California can be divided into a set of distinct, essentially self-contained littoral cells or beach compartments.
Marine Aquaculture
Aquaculture Activity on State Leased Parcels.
Maritime Limits Boundaries
Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, US/Canada International Boundary, Exclusive Economic Zone, and Maritime Boundaries of the United States.
National Wetland Inventory
Natural Resource Layers
Nautical Charts
The NOAA_RNC MapService provides a seamless collarless mosaic of the NOAA Raster Nautical Charts. Source charts are updated once per month. This map service is not to be used for navigation.
Northern California Shoreline Change
Three historical and one modern vector shorelines and a shore-normal transect for long-term shoreline change rates for sandy shoreline in Northern CA.
Ocean Outfalls
Offshore Wave Resource Potential
Pipelines and Utility Cables
Potential Coastal and Upland Borrow Sites
Upland debris basins and coastal borrow sites as identified originally in the California Shoreline Database compiled by Noble Consultants (Jon Moore). Later updates to the dataset by the BEACON, SANDAG and AMBAG Coastal Sediment Regional Master Plans (CSR...
Potential Harbors Borrow Sites
Harbors with suitable beach nourishment material along the California Coast.
Potential Offshore Sediment Borrow Sites
Potential sediment sources that could be used to address coastal erosion that are offshore (away from the coast).
Powerplant Locations
Sand Retention Structures
This dataset is a compilation of the UCSC Sand Retention Structures, MC Barriers, and USACE Coastal Structures. UCSC Sand Retention Structures originate from a catalog of 211 man-made structures along California's open-ocean shoreline. The original databa...
Seabird Colonies
Sea Level Rise Coastal Erosion Mapping
PWA Sea Level Rise Coastal Erosion Mapping.
Sea Level Rise Coastal Flooding Impacts
The dataset covers the entire California coast and the San Francisco Bay. It is created for estimating the impacts of a 100-year coastal flood with a sea-level rise of 1.4 meters (55 inches).
Shipping Lanes
Shipping Lanes derived from NOAA's Office of Coast Survey's Electronic Navigational Charts.
Southern California Shoreline Change
Three historical and one modern vector shorelines and a shore-normal transect for long-term shoreline change rates for sandy shoreline in Southern CA.
Submerged Cables
Submerged Leases
Tide tables
Tsunami Risk Along the California Coast
This service provides maps of tsunami flood hazard. The tsunami zones are based on consideration of local tsunami-generating sources offshore California’s coasts (earthquake faults and landslides), and distant sources around the Pacific Ocean rim. These...
Wave Watch 3 data