Alternate title

FI003005

Date (Creation)

2015-05-01

Date (Publication)

2016-03-01

Citation identifier

CD35E119-2361-4D8A-86FE-E22C2A7BF275

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey of Finland	Geological Survey of Finland		Owner

Presentation form

Digital map

Purpose

The marine habitat type data provides a general picture of the potential occurrence of Natura marine habitat types within FinlandÔÇÖs marine area. The data is produced for Ecosystem Based Management of areas. The objective was to produce comprehensive maps of the occurrences of sandbanks throughout the entire marine area of Finland based on the best data available As such the data is not suitable for local decision making without validations. The data concerning areas restricted by the Finnish Defence Forces has been removed.

Credit

Geological Survey of Finland

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey of Finland	Geological Survey of Finland	geodata@gtk.fi	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Keywords

• Live Data and Maps

Use limitation

Restricted - only bounding box of dataset is viewable

Access constraints

Restricted

Use constraints

Restricted

Spatial representation type

Vector

Language

Finnish

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment
• Geoscientific information
• Oceans

Environment description

Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959

Reference system identifier

ESPG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258 / 8.1.1.

Topology level

Geometry only

Geometric object type

Composite

Geometric object count

1

Distribution format

Name	Version
Shapefile	ArcCatalog 10.3.1

Transfer size

0.106

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The marine habitat type data concerns the modelling work carried out within the Finnish Inventory Programme for the Underwater Marine Environment (VELMU) in spring 2015. The task was done in cooperation between the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) and Åbo Academi University (ÅA). The work included the modelling of the marine habitats included in the Annex 1 of the Habitats Directive: reefs (1170) and sandbanks, which are slightly covered by sea water all the time (1110). The aforementioned marine habitat types are specified on the basis of seabed substrate type and topographic form and they can overlap one another. The objective was to produce comprehensive maps of the occurrences of reefs and sandbanks throughout the entire marine area of Finland based on the best data available. The criteria to determine the marine habitats were discussed with the responsible bodies and the instructions (version 5.1), which include more precise criteria for determining marine habitat types than the Natura 2000 Habitats Manual (Airaksinen & Karttunen 2001), for a Natura 2000 inventory were utilised. On the basis of different criteria and test analyses, a decision was made to model potential sandbanks which includes sites that are likely to have sandbank occurrences. The data covers only the Northern Bothnian Sea.

Metadata

File identifier

14560f4d-8f99-4246-9a35-a2e133170b11 XML

Metadata language

Finnish

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2021-12-15T14:04:26

Metadata standard name

INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119

Metadata standard version

V. 1.2

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey of Finland	Geological Survey of Finland	geodata@gtk.fi	Point of contact