Guyana Coastal Database is a local and web-based database of open geospatial data. This is a platform whereby coastal practitioners in Guyana can access geospatial data and analytical tools to support their daily and/or operational planning aimed at coastal/marine disaster risk preparation and management, coastal conservation, and/or developing appropriate responses (adaptation or mitigation) to climate change.  Its main goal is to facilitate easy access to geospatial data to support the use of GIS technology in Guyana. This database collects openly available remotely sensed data, maps, geospatial layers and published documents on Guyana’s Coastal environment. The Guyana Coastal Database, as a single web platform, is used to make the datasets on coastal environments openly available freely to practitioners and wider stakeholders.

To improve the ability of decision-makers, environmental managers, conservationists, disaster risk managers, policymakers, governmental and non-governmental institutions and researchers in making informed decisions for current or projections of future coastal change scenarios for Guyana, the integration and combination of morphological data with other change causal real-time measurements are critical. Our goals are twofold: (i) to provide downloadable datasets that could be utilised in supporting analytical services on coastal-marine environments; (ii) to develop a full web-based data integration and analysis system to capture observation and monitoring at the Guyana catchment-coastal-marine interface.