EMODnet product catalogue
Eastern Approaches to the Firth of Forth, Wee Bankie to Gourdon area Rule-based habitat Map 2013
The objective of this project was to generate seabed habitat maps for locations with full coverage acoustic datasets to as detailed a hierarchical level as possible within the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland (version 04.05), also known as MNCR classification, (Connor et al. 2004).
The acoustic data were at various stages of processing and interpretation, therefore the mapping of habitats and biotopes in some areas have required a greater amount of work to reach the same level compared to other areas. The constituent polygons within the habitat/biotope maps are labelled to an appropriate level of the Habitat Classification and translated to the corresponding EUNIS code.
In order to generate seabed habitat maps for the areas the data associated with each area were required to undergo some preliminary preparation and processing in order to ensure suitability and compatibly with the mapping methodologies employed.
The data were then processed using a top-down approach was adopted based on the methods developed by MESH and UKSeaMap and used by EUSeaMap, which utilised the updated seabed substrate information provided by BGS. Habitat maps for the area have been produced (the level of habitat detail which could be mapped was restricted to level 3 or 4 of the EUNIS classification and level 2 or 3 of the MNCR classification) with associated metadata and peripheral supplementary data to aid in future analysis and interpretation.
A confidence assessment using the MESH confidence assessment method has been undertaken for each habitat map produced and certainty of classification maps accompany each habitat map also.
Simple
- Alternate title
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GB001251
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-09-30T00:00:00
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Research
- Credit
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JNCC
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Graeme Duncan
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Place
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North Sea
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Wee Bankie
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- Theme
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Marine habitat mapping
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EUNIS
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and biotopes
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Oceanographic geographical features
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- Use limitation
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Available under the Open Government Licence 2.0
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- End date
- 2014-09-30T15:00:00
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- Supplemental Information
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Sotheran, I. & Crawford-Avis, O., (2014), Mapping habitats and biotopes from acoustic datasets to strengthen the information base of Marine Protected Areas in Scottish waters ÔÇô Phase 2, JNCC Report 526, ISSN 0963 8901
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
2015
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/access-data/launch-map-viewer/?zoom=9¢er=-1.38765,55.89917&layerIds=501&baseLayerId=1&activeFilters=NobwRANghgngpgJwJIBMwC4CsAGAjAGjADMBLCAF0VQwBYB2Q0ixAGQHs2BrAVwAdUAzhmABdRmUoIAKnAAe5DGADiAIWx4ATJlxgAviKA EMODnet Seabed Habitats Map Viewer
OGC:WMS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms? gb001251
OGC:WFS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs? gb001251
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB001251.zip EMODnet Seabed Habitats download
Metadata
- File identifier
- 21046309-55c2-4888-a596-5c9a9bb30320 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2020-01-15T12:09:51
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Graeme Duncan
Point of contact
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