1. Identify Key Datasets for inclusion in MSDI
Bathymetry
Depth
Administrative Boundaries
Human Activities
Oceanography
Meteorology
Aids to Navigation
Geology
Rocks Wrecks Obstructions
Coastlines
Geographical Names

2. Oceanography
Tides
Currents
Salinity
Waves
Temperatures

3. Administrative Boundaries
Shipping Fairways, Lanes and Zones
Area to be Avoided
Mandotary Ship Reporting for the Protection
Precautionary Area
Recommendation Routes
Separation Zones
Shipping Safety Fairway
Traffic Lanes
Harbour Limits
Pilot Boarding Area
Marine Jurisdiction
Basepoint
Baseline
Internal Water
Archipelagic Water
Territorial Sea
Contiguous Zone
EEZ
Continental Shelf
National Limits
Marine Protection Area
Marine Parks

4. Human Activities Fishing Zone Anchorage Area Military Practise Area
Disposal Sites
Cargo Transhipment Area
Aggregate extraction
Dredging
Offshore Installations
Platform
Pipelines
Submarine Cables
Wind farms
Hydrocarbon extraction
Mariculture
Ocean energy facilities
Other forms of area management/designation

5. Meteorology
Wind
Relative Humidity
Pressure
Temperature

6. Aids to Navigation Bouy Beacon Lighthouse Aids to Navigation
S Aid to Navigation Information / Information sur les aides à la navigation

7. Bathymetry Elevation Uncertainty Bathymetry
S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product

8. Depth
Sounding
Contour

9. Geology
Seabed
Sediment
Backscatter

10. Rocks Wrecks Obstructions
Underwater Rocks
Wrecks
Obstructions

11. Coastlines
Natural
Artificial
Intertidal Zone

12. Geographical Names
undersea feature names
coastal names)
sea names