INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES GIS TECHNICAL WORK GROUP -- GIS METADATA METADATA FILE DATE: June 10, 2003 METADATA PREPARER: Eli Asarian Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) 791 Eighth Street Ste. N Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-9428 COVERAGE DESCRIPTION: This metadata file is a general metadata file for all "faux covers". A faux cover is a companion to an image file with a similar filename, created for the sole purpose of allowing the display of a "dummy legend" in the KRIS Map Viewer and ArcView. Please see the metadata for each image layer for more specific metadata. Because it does not have ArcView's Spatial Analyst extension capabilities, the KRIS Map Viewer cannot display grid layers. To allow the display of grid themes in the KRIS Map Viewer, ArcInfo is used to convert the grid to an image (i.e. a TIFF, JPEG, or SID file). The image can then be displayed in the KRIS Map Viewer, or in ArcView without the Spatial Analyst extension. A faux cover (which is typically an ArcView either an ArcView Shapefile or an ArcInfo Coverage) is created so that the image can have a legend. In ArcView, this image is displayed adjacent to the image. In the KRIS Map Viewer, the image "borrows" a legend from the faux cover (for more information on this, see the KRIS Help pages). Faux covers are composed of small polygon features, placed in an arbitrary location outside the project area. The attribute table contains information useful for making the legend (one row in the attribute table for each row in the desired legend). COORDINATE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION Projection UTM Units METERS Spheroid CLARKE1866 Parameters: 1st standard parallel 34 0 0.000 2nd standard parallel 40 30 0.000 central meridian -120 0 0.00 latitude of projection's origin 0 0 0.000 false easting (meters) 0.00000 false northing (meters) 0.00000