EMODnet product catalogue
Beach litter - Beaches locations and litter list used - EU-MSFD monitoring 2001/2021 v2021
This visualization product displays beaches locations where the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) monitoring protocol has been applied to collate data on macrolitter (> 2.5 cm).
Reference lists associated with these protocols have been indicated with different colors in the map.
EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Since the beginning of 2018, data of beach litter have been gathered and processed in the EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database (MLDB).
The harmonization of all the data has been the most challenging task considering the heterogeneity of the data sources, sampling protocols and reference lists used on a European scale.
Preliminary processing were necessary to harmonize all the data:
- Exclusion of OSPAR 1000 protocol: in order to follow the approach of OSPAR that it is not including these data anymore in the monitoring;
- Selection of MSFD surveys only (exclusion of other monitoring, cleaning and research operations);
- Exclusion of beaches without coordinates;
- Some categories & some litter types like organic litter, small fragments (paraffin and wax; items > 2.5cm) and pollutants have been removed. The list of selected items is attached to this metadata. This list was created using EU Marine Beach Litter Baselines and EU Threshold Value for Macro Litter on Coastlines from JRC (these two documents are attached to this metadata).
More information is available in the attached documents.
Warning: the absence of data on the map doesn't necessarily mean that they don't exist, but that no information has been entered in the Marine Litter Database for this area.
Simple
- Alternate title
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bl_beacheslocations_monitoring
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-05-06
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- DOI:10.13120/4e4c36ce-fc86-4df7-983a-dae822ed0fe1
- Credit
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EMODnet Chemistry
Point of contact
Point of contact
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Thèmes Sextant
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/Human Activities/Pollution
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- Theme
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EMODnet Chemistry
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- Use limitation
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CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Other constraints
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Usage is subject to mandatory citation: "This resource was generated in the framework of EMODnet Chemistry, under the support of DG MARE Call for Tender EASME/EMFF/2018/1.3.1.8 - lot4."
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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eng
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Description
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bounding box
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- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2021-11-26
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 0.0
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Distribution format
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Name Version
- OnLine resource
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- Series
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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See the referenced specification
- Statement
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Data are stored in EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database MLDB. EMODnet litter formats are described in guidelines available on the EMODnet Chemistry website: https://www.emodnet-chemistry.eu/doi/documents/Guidelines-Litter_Data_EMODnetChemistry3_rev_20181128.pdf
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4e4c36ce-fc86-4df7-983a-dae822ed0fe1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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- Series
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Product record
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-21T08:59:59.135735Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EMODnet Chemistry
Point of contact
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