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European seafloor litter standardized, harmonized and validated datasets 2006/2022 v2023

EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, ocean acidification, contaminants and litter. The chosen parameters are relevant for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), in particular for descriptors 5, 8, 9 and 10. The datasets contain standardized, harmonized and validated data collections from seafloor litter.

Datasets concerning seafloor litter data are loaded in a central database after a semi-automated validation phase. Once loaded, a data assessment is performed in order to check data consistency and potential errors are corrected thanks to a feedback loop with data originators.

EMODnet seafloor litter data and database are hosted and maintained by ‘Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Division of Oceanography (OGS/NODC)’ from Italy.

For seafloor litter, the harmonized datasets contain all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on seafloor litter data.

Data are formatted following Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data, which can be found at: https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/15c0d34c-a01a-4091-91ac-7c4f561ab508. The updated vocabularies of admitted values are available at https://vocab.seadatanet.org/search or at https://vocab.ices.dk/ .

The harmonized datasets can be downloaded as EMODnet Sea-floor litter data format version 1.0, which is a csv file, tab separated values.

Simple

Alternate title

European_seafloor_litter_standardized_harmonized_validated_datasets_ 2006/2022_v2023

Date (Creation)
2023-07-21
Edition

1.0

Citation identifier
d98b57be-e6b5-4081-9464-da773d3209b9
Credit

EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography

nodc@ogs.trieste.it

Custodian

National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography

nodc@ogs.trieste.it

Author

ARPA Emilia-Romagna, Struttura Oceanografica Daphne

Originator

Atlantic Scientific Research Institute for Marine Fishery and Oceanography

atlant@baltnet.ru

Originator

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory

datamanager@cefas.co.uk

Originator

DTU Aqua, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark

aqua@aqua.dtu.dk

Originator

Estonian Marine Institute

meri@sea.ee

Originator

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography

iosecretariat@hcmr.gr

Originator

IEO, Santander Oceanographic Centre

ieosantander@ieo.es

Originator

IFREMER, CENTRE MANCHE, MER DU NORD

Originator

IFREMER, Fisheries English Channel North sea, Boulogne-sur-mer

Originator

Environment Resources Laboratory Morbihan Pays De La Loire - Lorient

Jean.Pierre.Joly@ifremer.fr

Originator

IFREMER, STATION DE SETE

Originator

Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden

Originator

Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Animal Sciences Unit, Fisheries

DierVI@ilvo.vlaanderen.be

Originator

Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia

info@izvrs.si

Originator

Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment

bior@bior.gov.lv

Originator

Institute of Marine Biology (IMBK)

danijela.j@ucg.ac.me

Originator

Institute of Marine Research

post@imr.no

Originator

Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

office@izor.hr

Originator

ISPRA, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Chioggia

Originator

Marine Institute

datarequests@marine.ie

Originator

Marine Scotland Science

inapplicable

Originator

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries Service

info@zuv.lt

Originator

National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"

office@alpha.rmri.ro

Originator

National Marine Fisheries Research Institute

sekretariat@mir.gdynia.pl

Originator

Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere, I.P.

info@ipma.pt

Originator

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

registrator@slu.se

Originator

Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF)

of@ti.bund.de

Originator

Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries

wencke.griemsmann@thuenen.de

Originator

Institute of Coastal Research, The Swedish Board of Fisheries

fiskeriverket@slu.se

Originator

Ifremer, Halieutic Resources of English Channel North-Sea (Port-en-Bessin)

Originator

COISPA Tecnologia & Ricerca

info@coispa.eu

Originator

Ifremer, Fisheries Science and Technology (Plouzane)

Originator

Agriculture University of Tirana

magdacara@ubt.edu.al

Originator

Thèmes Sextant

  • /Human Activities/Pollution

  • /Chemical Environment/Water Column

  • /Chemical Environment/Sediment

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)
  • Sea-floor litter abundance
SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
  • Black Sea
  • North Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Theme
  • Sea-floor litter

  • Trawls

  • EMODnet Chemistry

Place
  • Sea-floor area

Matrix Categories
  • water body
  • sediment
EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups
  • Marine litter

Ocean Hackathon - City and challenge

  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL02

  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL04

  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL06

  • /Bournemouth/BOR01

  • /Concepción/CON06

  • /Kuala Lumpur/KUL08

  • /La Rochelle/LAR01

  • /Peniche/PEN01

Use limitation

CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
unrestricted
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

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/2020/3.1.11/European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Lot 5 - Chemistry"

Spatial representation type
Vector
Language

eng

Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Environment
Description

bounding box

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Begin date
2006-01-10
End date
2022-11-27

Vertical extent

Minimum value
5
Maximum value
1230
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Geometric object type
Curve
Distribution format
Name Version

EMODnet Sea-floor litter data format

4.0

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

DOI

https://doi.org/10.13120/d98b57be-e6b5-4081-9464-da773d3209b9

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD

https://nodc.ogs.it/repository/aggregated-datasets/litter/EMD_seafloor_litter_2023_unrestricted.zip
Hierarchy level
Series

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

See the referenced specification

Statement

The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://cdi-chemistry.seadatanet.org/search

Metadata

File identifier
d98b57be-e6b5-4081-9464-da773d3209b9 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Series
Date stamp
2025-02-21T09:01:09.583502Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

EMODnet Chemistry

sextant@ifremer.fr

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

overview
EMD_seafloor_collection.jpg

Spatial extent

thumbnail

Keywords

EMODnet Chemistry Sea-floor litter Trawls
EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups

Marine litter
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features
Matrix Categories

sediment water body
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

Sea-floor litter abundance
SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Baltic Sea Black Sea Mediterranean Sea North Sea Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Sediment /Chemical Environment/Water Column /Human Activities/Pollution


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