{"thcode":23,"term":{"code":6,"name":"Data Content Subjects","parent":1,"scope":"Environmental characteristics and processes as well as human activities that use, rely on, or impact those features."},"uf":[],"bt":[{"code":1,"name":"Data Categories for Marine Planning","parent":null,"scope":"Categories indicating the breadth of information types required for ocean planning from a national, multidisciplinary perspective. Published in USGS Open-File Report 2015-1046, doi:10.3133\/ofr20151046"}],"nt":[{"code":80,"name":"Governance","parent":6,"scope":"The boundaries of geographic areas that are defined for governmental, administrative, or management purposes. Governance data for marine planning are those that identify governance entities that have effects on environmental processes or human activities that impact the coast, Great Lakes, or ocean. Distributions are maps representing authoritative boundaries (for examples, see http:\/\/marinecadastre.gov). Assessments are maps showing theoretical boundaries resulting from models, evaluations, or scenario-testing; or they are modeled values of bounded regions. Predictions are maps showing predicted boundaries based on expected outcomes or driven by variable parameters; or they are models predicting impacts of moving boundaries. All Governance data share these definitions for Distributions, Assessments, and Predictions."},{"code":87,"name":"Infrastructure","parent":6,"scope":"The locations of permanent or temporary installations intended to support basic human activities or needs, including communication, transportation, shoreline protection, housing, recreation, and utilities. Data required for marine planning are limited to infrastructure that has effects on environmental processes or human activities that impact the coast, Great Lakes, or ocean. Distributions are maps representing current locations of structures and facilities. Assessments are maps showing theoretical or suitable locations resulting from models, evaluations, or other processes; or they are models that evaluate the ecological or economic impacts of existing infrastructure. Predictions are maps showing predicted locations based on expected outcomes or variable factors and drivers; or they are models that evaluate the ecological or economic effects of proposed, changed, or future infrastructure. All Infrastructure data share these definitions for Distributions, Assessments, and Predictions."},{"code":26,"name":"Living Resources","parent":6,"scope":"Includes aspects of coastal and marine biota that are of particular importance to ecology or to human uses. These can include particular species, groups of biota, associations of biota with physical features, biological function, and biological connectivity."},{"code":7,"name":"Nonliving Resources","parent":6,"scope":"Data are about chemical, physical, or geological features that are of use or importance to humans or ecologies."},{"code":39,"name":"Ocean Uses","parent":6,"scope":"Data about human activities that occur in, on, under, or immediately above the water in the Nation's coastal and marine environments. Humans use and engage with the oceans in a variety of ways and purposes. To provide an objective, transparent, and consistent means of describing, understanding, and planning for those diverse activities, NOAA's National Marine Protected Areas Center recently published A Common Language of Ocean Uses (Wahle and Townsend, 2013). This simple framework defines 35 distinct ways that people use the oceans in the United States. The framework describes each use from a functional perspective, articulating in objective terms how and where the use typically operates in ocean space and what components it involves (for example, vessels, gear, and so on). The resulting use categories provide a means for aggregating functionally similar uses (for example, offshore recreational and commercial pelagic fishing), while allowing important distinctions to be made and explored within the categories (for example, uses pursued for commercial as opposed to recreational purposes). These Ocean Use categories are included in this document as a proposed unifying framework for collecting, organizing, managing, and applying data on human uses of the oceans for CMSP and other place-based management efforts. Distributions are maps or other spatial representations of human uses of the ocean across space or over time. Assessments are evaluations of the trends, ecological requirements and impacts, demographics, socioeconomic drivers and benefits, and conflicts and compatibilities of other human uses of the ocean in its present distribution. Predictions are the results of projections of future distributions or implications of human uses of the ocean, including changes in response to human and natural processes, optimal locations, and trade-offs resulting from different management actions. As an organizing tool, these uses are here divided into five groups, or sectors, reflecting commonalities of purpose and approach among similar uses."}],"rt":[]}