About the Tool and Data
Tool
Ramsar Wetlands Data Gateway
Tool Builder
The Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) is operated for NASA by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of Columbia University.
Tool Cost
Freely Accessible
Tool Help
Questions about the Ramsar Data Gateway can be answered by sending e-mail to ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu or by calling 845-365-8920.
Data Source
Ramsar Sites Database.
The Ramsar Sites Database contains data from each "Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands" that is completed by the Contracting Parties to the "Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat" (Ramsar, Iran, 1971).
Geospatial Coverage
Data on 1,743 international sites (161,177,358 hectares) designated as protected wetlands in accordance with the Convention on Wetlands.
Temporal Coverage
The data in the Ramsar Data Gateway reflect the Ramsar Sites Database as of 2008.
Data Provider
The Ramsar Sites Database is maintained by Wetlands International, http://www.wetlands.org. Wetlands International has also provided a GIS map server with wetland locations and a similar tool to the one originally built by CIESIN.
Data Help
http://www.ramsar.org/
