The Metropolitan East Coast (MEC) study region is a 31 county district comprising the greater New York metropolitan area. We have complied the following data layers for use in the MEC GIS:

• Tiger Files 97 US Census Bureau:
  • Political Boundaries, Roads, Landmarks, Water Bodies, Streams, and Demographic Information by Census Tract & Block
• Climate Models from the CCS and Hadley Center
• NYC DEP Watershed Layers: Watershed Bounds, Reservoirs, Streams, Farms, Monitoring Sites, 20’ Contours, & Political Divisions
• Landsat Thematic Mapper 7
• USGS Digital Elevation Models
• USGS 1:250,000 Land Use Description
• National Wetland Inventory
• NJDEP 1:58,000 Land Use Classifications
• Digital Ortho-Photo Quadrangles for New Jersey & Long Island
• NPA Data Growth Projection Data