2011 Isles of Scilly Seagrass Mapping

The objectives of this survey was to utilise aerial survey and GIS methods, along with historic information, contextual information, and ground truthing to produce an up to date, accurate, GIS based map showing the current extent of seagrass Zostera marina in the Isles of Scilly. The work was undertaken under Natural England contract SWR/CONTRACTS/08-09/114 by MarLIN at the Marine Biological Association of the UK, with sub-contract to the Diving and Marine Centre, University of Plymouth.