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Beach Litter - Median number of plastic bags related items normalized per 100m & to 1 survey - Official monitoring 2001/2020 v2021

This visualization product displays the plastic bags abundance of marine macro-litter (> 2.5cm) per beach per year from Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) monitoring surveys.

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;

- Selection of plastic bags related items only. 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);

- Normalization of survey lengths to 100m & 1 survey / year: in some case, the survey length was not exactly 100m, so in order to be able to compare the abundance of litter from different beaches a normalization is applied using this formula:

Number of plastic bags related items of the survey (normalized by 100 m) = Number of plastic bags related items of the survey x (100 / survey length)

Then, this normalized number of plastic bags related items is summed to obtain the total normalized number of plastic bags related items for each survey. Finally, the median abundance of plastic bags related items for each beach and year is calculated from these normalized abundances of plastic bags related items per survey.

Sometimes the survey length was null or equal to 0. Assuming that the MSFD protocol has been applied, the length has been set at 100m in these cases.

Percentiles 50, 75, 95 & 99 have been calculated taking into account plastic bags related items from MSFD data for all years.

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.

 
Citation proposal
Ifremer, VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring) - IFREMER, SISMER, Scientific Information Systems for the SEA. Beach Litter - Median number of plastic bags related items normalized per 100m & to 1 survey - Official monitoring 2001/2020 v2021. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/901edf10-bb77-44a6-aa88-628b8cfe3fd6

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Alternate title
bl_plasticbags_monitoring
Date ( Creation )
2021-05-06
Edition
1.0
Identifier
DOI:10.13120/901edf10-bb77-44a6-aa88-628b8cfe3fd6
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EMODnet Chemistry

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Ifremer, VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)  
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Thèmes Sextant ( Theme )
  • /Human Activities/Pollution
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02) ( parameter )
  • Litter abundance and type , Beach litter abundance
SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer ( reference-geographical-area )
  • North Sea , Black Sea , Mediterranean Sea , Arctic Ocean , Baltic Sea , Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Keywords ( Theme )
  • EMODnet Chemistry
Matrix Categories ( parameter )
  • sediment
EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups ( parameter )
  • Marine litter
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CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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/2018/1.3.1.8 - lot4."
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
ang
Topic category
  • Oceans
Description
bounding box
N
S
E
W


Vertical extent

Minimum value
-5500.0
Maximum value
0.0
Vertical CRS
  •   http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/5714/
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG 4326)
Geometric object type
Point
Distribution format
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OnLine resource
bl_plasticbags_monitoring  

Beach Litter - Plastic bags abundance per year - Official monitoring

OnLine resource
Visualization products for Beach Litter data  

Methodologies applied to create the maps

OnLine resource
List of selected items  

List of selected items

OnLine resource
EU Threshold Value for Macro Litter on Coastlines  

EU Threshold Value for Macro Litter on Coastlines

OnLine resource
EU Marine Beach Litter Baselines  

EU Marine Beach Litter Baselines

OnLine resource
Marine litter database document  

Marine litter database document

OnLine resource
Data Access and Citation  

Data Access and Citation

OnLine resource
Direct Download  

Direct Download

Hierarchy level
Series

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
The data used as input for this product have been extracted from the EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search

Metadata

File identifier
901edf10-bb77-44a6-aa88-628b8cfe3fd6   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Series
Hierarchy level name
Product record
Date stamp
2021-11-26T14:30:34
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN
Metadata standard version
1.0

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