<descriptor thcode="23"><thesaurus thcode="23" name="Data Categories for Marine Planning" scope="Categories spanning the breadth of information types required for ocean planning from a national, multidisciplinary perspective. Includes description, assessment, and prediction regarding governance, resources, uses, and infrastructure." creator="Frances Lightsom, Giancarlo Cicchetti, and Charles Wahle" rights="public domain" edition="1.0" date="2015-03-20" codetype="number" prefix="dcmp" uri="http://www.usgs.gov/science/MarinePlanningData" tblname="dcmp" root_code="1" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="29" name="distinct labels" parent="26" scope="Preferred labels (descriptor texts) are distinct within the thesaurus. A concept can be specified either by its unique identifier (code) or by the text of its descriptor."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="5" name="theme" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate domains of human concern, such as scientific discipline, societal problems, or characteristics of earth, space, oceans, and living things."/><term thcode="25" code="29" name="distinct labels" parent="26" scope="Preferred labels (descriptor texts) are distinct within the thesaurus. A concept can be specified either by its unique identifier (code) or by the text of its descriptor."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="5" name="theme" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate domains of human concern, such as scientific discipline, societal problems, or characteristics of earth, space, oceans, and living things."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>DCMP</altlabel><altlabel>DCMP</altlabel><altlabel>Marine Planning Data</altlabel><altlabel>Marine Planning Data</altlabel><altlabel>MarinePlanningData</altlabel><altlabel>MarinePlanningData</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="23" 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."/><bt><term thcode="23" 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."/><term thcode="23" code="1" name="Data Categories for Marine Planning" 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"/></bt><nt><term thcode="23" code="83" name="Commercial Leases" parent="80" scope="Commercial Leases data delineate areas where special-use allocations are established by contracts that define who has permission to carry out particular activities in an area or zone defined by the contract."/><term thcode="23" code="82" name="De Facto MPAs" parent="80" scope="De Facto MPAs data delineate areas where human access and activities are restricted for reasons other than conservation. Examples include military operating areas, safety zones around offshore energy production facilities, industrial exclusion zones, and shellfish closures for water-quality reasons (http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov)."/><term thcode="23" code="84" name="Jurisdictional Boundaries" parent="80" scope="Jurisdictional Boundaries data delineate domestic, tribal, and international areas established by a law or treaty that determines who has the authority to interpret, apply, and enforce the laws within those areas."/><term thcode="23" code="81" name="Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)" parent="80" scope="Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) data delineate areas where some or all of the natural and cultural resources are given a heightened level of protection through regulation or other effective means in order to achieve conservation or societal goals (http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov)."/><term thcode="23" code="86" name="Regulatory Use Restrictions" parent="80" scope="Regulatory Use Restrictions data delineate specific locations for which some uses are restricted in order to meet regulatory goals (for example, regions in which Total Maximum Daily Loads have been defined for particular pollutants)."/><term thcode="23" code="85" name="Tribally Governed Areas" parent="80" scope="Tribally Governed Areas data delineate specific regions under the sovereignty of American Indian tribes who determine policy, actions, and other affairs."/></nt></descriptor>