Physical disturbance to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents physical disturbance to the seabed in the European seas. Several human activities disturb the seabed either directly or indirectly. Alteration of benthic living conditions as a result of increased sedimentation or attenuation of light penetration, abrasion of the seabed and exploitation of benthic biota, temporarily disturb the benthic habitat quality.


The dataset is an aggregation of several different human activities that cause physical disturbance to the seabed: aquaculture, demersal fishing, dredging and dumping of dredged material, oil and gas rigs, offshore installations, ports, sand and gravel extraction, shellfish mariculture, shipping in shallow waters and windfarms. The resulting dataset is a raster (10km grid cell) derived from EMODnet, MED-IAMER, JRC-STECF, OSPAR, HELCOM and 4C Offshore datasets, and with reference temporal coverage from 2012 to 2017.


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.

 
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European Environment Agency (2020) . Physical disturbance to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/84b01013-692f-4342-bd75-28a0225848c2

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Date ( Creation )
2019-05-01
Date ( Publication )
2020-01-27
Edition

01.00

Identifier

eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-disturbance_p_2012-2017_v01_r00

  Point of contact

Website
European Environment Agency public website  

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No information provided.

  Custodian

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 )

  • dredged material

    ,

    sand extraction

    ,

    oil extraction

    ,

    pressure

    ,

    sea

    ,

    fishery

    ,

    dredging

    ,

    fishing

    ,

    harbour

    ,

    wind power

    ,

    sea bed

    ,

    aquaculture

    ,

    shellfish

    ,

    environmental pressure

    ,

    gravel extraction

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )

  • Kattegat

    ,

    Barents Sea

    ,

    Bay of Biscay

    ,

    Celtic Sea

    ,

    Ionian Sea

    ,

    Norwegian Sea

    ,

    North Sea

    ,

    Baltic Sea

    ,

    Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

    ,

    Iceland Sea

    ,

    English Channel

    ,

    Adriatic Sea

    ,

    Mediterranean Sea

    ,

    Black 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/Pêche et Aquaculture

Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )

  • /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports

Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )

  • /Etat du Milieu/Espèces

Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )

  • /Etat du Milieu/Géologie

Thématiques - SIMM ( Theme )

  • /Etat du Milieu/Hydrodynamique

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS ( Theme )

  • /Données dérivées/Produits composites

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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
10  km
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Distribution format

  • GeoTIFF

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OnLine resource
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-disturbance_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/  
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OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_disturbance_to_seabed/MapServer  
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_disturbance_to_seabed/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS  
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Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

The dataset was created by combining 9 different human activities layers:


1. Aquaculture (EMODnet: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Finfish+Production , MED-IAMER: https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea )

2. Demersal fishing (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre - Independent experts of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (JRC STECF), OSPAR, HELCOM, see "Bycatch by bottom touching mobile gears in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020")

3. Dredging and dumping of dredged material (EMODnet Human Activities: 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 )

4. 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 )

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

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

7. Shellfish mariculture (EMODnet: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Shellfish+Production , MED-IAMER: https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea )

8. Shipping in shallow waters (based on EMODnet vessel density 2017 - see: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Vessel+Density+ , and EMODnet bathymetry 2016 - see: https://portal.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/ )

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


Most activity layers were in presence/ absence (1/0) format, except for the demersal fishing and shipping in shallow waters layers which depicted the intensity of the pressure (i.e. the scale was 0–1 after normalization). All human activities layers were normalized and then summed into one raster. The temporal extent varies between the data sources.

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84b01013-692f-4342-bd75-28a0225848c2   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-10-09T11:01:05.186496Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

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