1. Watsonville
2. County of Santa Cruz
3. City of Santa Cruz
4. San Benito County

• View the Metadata Catalog for the Central Coast. This metadata catalogue seeks to describe all the known data about Central California, so that everyone who wants to study the region will know where to go to obtain the information.
  
• To collaborate with the Central Coast Catalogue and enter your own metadata. Go directly to the "Central Coast Catalogue"

Central Coast Orthoimagery

W.A.T.E.R. (Watershed Analysis Tool for Environmental Review)

NAIP imagery (National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 2009 Imagery

1 meter imagery is available in natural color and color infra-red.  This site is hosted by Cal Atlas and can be downloaded county by county.

NOTE: NAIP 2010 imagery will shortly be available on the Cal Atlas site.  Stay tuned.

Metadata is defined as "data about data". When you are considering whether or not a particular data set meets your needs, you probably consider a lot of factors. For example, you might want to know

• when the data were collected,
• who built the data set,
• what format it's in,
• how large the file is,
• how the data set was meant to be used and
• where you should go to see about using it.

All of these factors make up metadata - the who, what, when, where and why of the data world.

The CCJDC is working actively with other spatial data consortia in California to expand access to our data resources and to knowledgeably fill in the gaps.

• Regional Water Quality Bibliography: Another source of information on the Central Coast can be found in a bibliography of published documents related to water quality.

• California Geographic Information Association.
• FGDC Metadata Page