{"thcode":23,"term":{"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."},"uf":[],"bt":[{"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."},{"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":90,"name":"Buoys and Navigational Aids","parent":87,"scope":"These are constructed markers that provide location-specific information."},{"code":89,"name":"Cables, Pipelines, and Power Grids","parent":87,"scope":"These are linear features for communication and transmission of electrical power, data, fluids, or other materials."},{"code":88,"name":"Ports","parent":87,"scope":"Ports are locations with facilities for loading, unloading, docking, fueling, and repairing vessels."},{"code":91,"name":"Structures","parent":87,"scope":"Structures are temporary, permanent, or abandoned constructed features on the coast, Great Lakes, or ocean, including piers, platforms, energy installations, communication towers, hardened shoreline protection, jetties, housing, shipwrecks, and more, but not including ports, cables, pipelines, power grids, buoys, or navigational aids."}],"rt":[]}