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Physical loss to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents the physical loss of the seabed in the European seas. Physical habitat loss is an extreme pressure on the marine ecosystem which was defined to include all impacts on the seabed which take more than 12 years to recover, a time span influencing even long living marine mammals and seabirds. Habitat is lost if its substrate, morphology or topography is permanently altered.

The dataset is an aggregation of several different human activities that cause physical loss in the seabed: dredging and dumping of dredged material, oil and gas rigs, offshore installations, ports, sand and gravel extraction and windfarms. The resulting dataset is a raster (10km grid cell) derived from EMODnet, MED-IAMER and 4C Offshore datasets and with temporal reference from 2012 to 2017. Higher values mean more loss causing activity in the area. Due to its resolution, loss causing activity in a cell does not usually mean that all the seabed habitat in the area is lost.

This dataset has been prepared for the calculation of the combined effect index, produced for the ETC/ICM Report 4/2019 "Multiple pressures and their combined effects in Europe's seas" available on: https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-icm/etc-icm-report-4-2019-multiple-pressures-and-their-combined-effects-in-europes-seas-1.

 
Citation proposal
European Environment Agency (2020) . Physical loss to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6e2e8ce0-7d81-4904-bf52-e919f784ef6e

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Date ( Creation )
2019-05-01
Date ( Publication )
2020-01-27
Edition
01.00
Identifier
eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00

  Point of contact

European Environment Agency  
Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark

Website
European Environment Agency public website  

Point of contact  

No information provided.

  Custodian

European Environment Agency  
Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen 1050 Denmark

Website
European Environment Agency public website  
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Keywords
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • sea bed , gravel extraction , dredged material , fishing , pressure , harbour , loss , sea , oil extraction , sand extraction , wind power , dredging , environmental pressure
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • North Sea , Bay of Biscay , Norwegian Sea , English Channel , Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) , Adriatic Sea , Black Sea , Iceland Sea , Ionian Sea , Kattegat , Mediterranean Sea , Barents Sea , Baltic Sea , Celtic Sea
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
Temporal resolution ( Temporal )
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Biodiversity , Fisheries and aquaculture , Production and consumption , Industry , Seas and coasts
Sous-regions marines ( Place )
  • /Métropole , /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord , /Métropole/Mers Celtiques , /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne , /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale
Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )
  • /Activités et Usages/Industrie et énergie
Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )
  • /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports
Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )
  • /Etat du Milieu/Bathymétrie
Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )
  • /Etat du Milieu/Habitats
Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )
  • /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS ( Theme )
  • /Données dérivées/Produits composites
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
10  km
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/Physical_loss_unnormalized.tif  
OnLine resource
Direct download  
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_loss_to_seabed/MapServer  
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_loss_to_seabed/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS  
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement

The dataset was created by combining 5 different human activities layers:

1. Dredging and dumping of dredged material (EMODnet Human Activities - Dredging: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredging, Dumping: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredge+Spoil+Dumping+%28Points%29, https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredge+Spoil+Dumping+%28Polygons%29)

2. Oil and gas rigs, offshore installations (EMODnet: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Offshore+Installations, MED-IAMER: https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea )

3. Ports (based on EMODnet vessel density 2017, which metadata is available on: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Vessel+Density+ )

4. Sand and gravel extraction (EMODnet Human Activities: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Aggregate+Extraction+Points )

5. Windfarms (4C Offshore database: https://www.4coffshore.com/windfarms/ )

All human activities layers were normalized and then summed into one raster. The temporal extent varies between the data sources.

Source
  •   https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredging
  •   https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredge+Spoil+Dumping+%28Points%29
  •   https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredge+Spoil+Dumping+%28Polygons%29
  •   https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Offshore+Installations
  •   https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea
  •   https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Vessel+Density+
  •   https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Aggregate+Extraction+Points

Metadata

File identifier
6e2e8ce0-7d81-4904-bf52-e919f784ef6e   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-11-20T15:31:56
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

  Point of contact

European Environment Agency  
Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark

 
 

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