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2012 Cefas Subtidal Verification Survey Utopia rMCZ

This report details the findings of dedicated seabed surveys at the Utopia recommended Marine Conservation Zone (rMCZ). The site is being considered for inclusion in a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in UK waters designed to meet conservation objectives under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. Prior to the dedicated surveys the site assessment had been made on the basis of best available evidence drawn largely from historical data modelled habitat maps and stakeholder knowledge of the area. The purpose of the survey was to provide direct evidence of the presence and extent of the broadscale habitats (BSH) and habitat FOCI (Features of Conservation Importance) that had been detailed in the original Site Assessment Document (SAD) (Balanced Seas 2011).

Simple

Alternate title

GB001496

Date (Publication)
2021-06-18
Citation identifier
GB001496
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Natural England

enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk

Originator
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Habitats and biotopes
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
  • habitat
  • biotope
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. When using this dataset, you must include an attribution statement acknowledging the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
80000
Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2012-01-01
End date
2022-10-06 After
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

10.3

GML

3.2.1

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB001496.zip

EMODnet Seabed Habitats download

OGC:WMS

https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms

gb001496

OGC:WFS

https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs

gb001496

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Dataset

Conformance result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass
Yes
Statement

This habitat map resulting from a review of the acoustic data coupled with use of the ground truthing data collected during the 2012 Utopia rMCZ survey. The map creation process is a combination of two approaches auto classification (image analysis) and expert interpretation. This map attained a score of 86 from the MESH Confidence Assessment Tool which is considered to be good given that the maximum possible score for a purely physical map is 88. This map was extracted from the BSH polygon layer of the Natural England Evidence Base (June 2021) and formatted by JNCC according to the EMODnet Seabed Habitats Data Exchange Format v4.1 in September 2022.

Metadata

File identifier
3aa6123971a295fd7e9656903b59f1e6 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-10-26T13:15:21.287Z
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Peterborough Office

habitatmapping@jncc.gov.uk

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes Oceanographic geographical features


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