North Rona (Annex I) habitat map
The aim of the survey was to map the seabed environment around North Rona. The survey will form the baseline for future management of the area to determine the scope and nature of any appropriate assessment. The survey area encompasses the seabed all around North Rona.
In order to record and characterise the habitats around North Rona, Seastar Survey Ltd. undertook an acoustic and a ground-truthing survey (video/still photography survey) in 2009. The aim of the acoustic element of the survey was to identify different backscatter returns and describe as well as delineate the extent of the various seabed habitat types occurring around North Rona.
A digital sidescan sonar mosaic, in conjunction with single beam echo sounder derived bathymetry, provided the initial broadview to map the substrata present throughout the survey area as well as allowing the identification of any features of interest.
The aim of the ground-truthing element of the survey was to provide a description of the richness and diversity of the habitats on both rocky reef and the softer sediments. The biotope distribution and species composition was developed through interpretation of drop-down video footage and digital still photography, taken after evaluation of the sidescan mosaic.
The results of all elements of the survey were used to create a Geographical Information System (GIS) which enabled a high level of processing, interpretation and display of the sidescan sonar mosaic, bathymetry, substrata types, biotopes and the digital photography.
owner : {{md.getOwnername()}}
{{'mdStatusRecord' | translate}}: {{('mdStatus-' + md.mdStatus) | translate}}
- Identification
- Content
- ReferenceSystem
- Quality
- DomainConsistancy
- Constraints
- Distribution
- Meta-metadata
- ObjectCatalogue
Alternate title | GB001133 |
---|---|
Date | 2009-08-13T00:00:00 |
Date type | Creation: Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence |
Purpose | Research |
---|---|
Credit | Scottish Natural Heritage |
Status | Completed: Production of the data has been completed |
Point of contact
Individual name | James Dargie |
---|---|
Organisation name | Scottish Natural Heritage |
Voice | +44 1463 725226 |
Delivery point | Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Unit |
Delivery point | Scottish Natural Heritage |
Delivery point | Great Glen House |
Delivery point | Leachkin Road |
City | Inverness |
Postal code | IV3 8NW |
Country | United Kingdom |
Electronic mail address | James.dargie@snh.gov.uk |
Role | Owner: Party that owns the resource |
Maintenance and update frequency | Not planned: There are no plans to update the data |
---|
Descriptive keywords
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 | |
---|---|
Other keywords |
North Rona
|
Scotland
|
Northeast Atlantic
|
Other keywords |
Marine habitat mapping
|
EUNIS
|
Spatial representation type | Vector: Vector data is used to represent geographic data |
---|
Character set | UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 |
---|---|
Topic category code |
|
Supplemental Information | Axelsson, M., Dewey, S. and Doran, J. (2010). Broad scale mapping of the North Rona Special Area of Conservation (SAC). Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No 386. |
Reference System Information
Unique resource identifier | WGS 1984 |
---|
mdLegalAndSecurityConstraintsSection
Resource constraints
|
Distribution format | ESRI Shapefile (Version: 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transfer options
|
File identifier | 379e19c5-8c7e-4078-9e9a-dc6353fb9c26 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Character set | UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||||||
Date stamp | 2023-10-27T13:55:47.623Z | ||||||||
Metadata standard name | ISO 19115:2003/19139 | ||||||||
Metadata standard version | 1.0 | ||||||||
Contact
|
Overviews
extent
- geoDesc
- {{d}}
- geoBox
- geoDescCode
- {{mdView.current.record.geoDescCode}}
tempExtent
- creationDate
- publicationDate
- revisionDate
- tempExtentBegin
Associated resources
Not available