Metadata catalogue
Beach Litter - Composition of litter according to material categories in percent normalized per beach per year - Official monitoring 2001/2020 v2021
This visualization product displays marine macro-litter (> 2.5cm) material categories percentage 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;
- Some litter types like organic litter, small fragments (paraffin and wax; items > 2.5cm) and pollutants have been removed. 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);
- Exclusion of the "feaces" category: it concerns more exactly the items of dog excrements in bags of the OSPAR (item code: 121) and ITA (item code: IT59) reference lists;
- 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 items (normalized by 100 m) = Number of litter per items x (100 / survey length)
Then, this normalized number of items is summed to obtain the total normalized number of litter for each 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.
To calculate percentages for each material category, formula applied is:
Material (%) = (∑number of items (normalized at 100 m) of each material category)*100 / (∑number of items (normalized at 100 m) of all categories)
The material categories differ between reference lists (OSPAR, ITA, TSG_ML, UNEP, UNEP_MARLIN). In order to apply a common procedure for all the surveys, the material categories have been harmonized.
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 - Composition of litter according to material categories in percent normalized per beach per year - Official monitoring 2001/2020 v2021. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/97b27e5a-2ea0-4396-8bea-4260598e5d6b |
Simple
- Alternate title
- bl_materialcategories_monitoring
- Date ( Creation )
- 2021-05-06
- Edition
- 1.0
- Identifier
- DOI:10.13120/97b27e5a-2ea0-4396-8bea-4260598e5d6b
- Credit
- EMODnet Chemistry
Point of contact
Point of contact
Resource provider
Resource provider
Resource provider
- Website
- web site
Custodian
Custodian
Originator
Frederiksborgvej 399
Postboks 358
Roskilde DK_4000 Denmark- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Centro Ricerche Marine
Viale Vespucci 2
Cesenatico 47042 Italy- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
715 rue Alain Colas
CS 41836
BREST CEDEX 2 29218 FranceOriginator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Organisation Headquarters:
Poststraße 6
Rostock-Warnemünde 18119 GermanyOriginator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
46.7 km Athinon-Souniou Av.
P.O.Box 712
Anavyssos 19013 GreeceOriginator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Setaliste Ivana Mestrovica 63
P.O.BOX 500
SPLIT 21000 CroatiaOriginator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Name
- web site
- Function
- Information
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
Originator
Originator
Originator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Rua da Murgueira 9,
Apartado 7585, Zambujal,
Alfragide
Amadora 2610-124 PortugalOriginator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
Originator
Originator
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
Originator
- Website
- web site
- 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 )
-
- Baltic Sea , Arctic Ocean , North Sea , Black Sea , Mediterranean Sea , Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
- Keywords ( Theme )
-
- EMODnet Chemistry
- Matrix Categories ( parameter )
-
- sediment
- EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups ( parameter )
-
- Marine litter
- Use limitation
- CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- 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
- eng
- Description
- bounding box
))
Vertical extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG 4326)
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Distribution format
-
- ( )
- OnLine resource
-
bl_materialcategories_monitoring
Beach Litter - Material categories percentage 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 data for this product was extracted from the Postgis database used in the beach litter analysis for EMODnet Chemistry.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 97b27e5a-2ea0-4396-8bea-4260598e5d6b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Hierarchy level name
- Product record
- Date stamp
- 2021-11-26T14:28:31
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
