ICES Metadata Catalogue
Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS) II
This Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS-II) survey second iteration broadened the survey area of SCANS 94 to include the European Atlantic shelf waters west of UK, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. SCANS-II established monitoring methodologies for lower-cost annual surveys of relative abundance and develop a management procedure to set safe bycatch limits and provide information which could assist in the identification of marine Special Areas of Conservation.
The project completed its preparatory phase and field testing of equipment in early 2005 prior to a comprehensive survey of the European continental shelf Atlantic waters, including the North Sea, Celtic Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat in July 2005. The operation coordinated seven ships and three aircraft and a team of over 70 observers. During the month, they covered over 30,000km of sea survey transects and 200 hours of flying time.
Survey methods used are detailed in Hammond et al 2013 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320713001055
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-05-12
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Sea Mammal Research Unit
smru@st-andrews.ac.uk
Point of contact ICES
Distributor Joint Cetacean Data Programme
marinemammals@jncc.gov marinemammals@jncc.gov.uk
Distributor
- Theme
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Cetacean
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Joint Cetacean Data Programme
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SCANS
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- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Other constraints
- Open access
- Use constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use limitation
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This data is public access and can be downloaded from the JCDP Data Portal.
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- f7b9234a-8f9c-4db3-bcd3-898952b5cd9a
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Initiative Type
- Project
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 2005-06-29 After
- End date
- 2005-07-28 Before
- Reference system identifier
- WGS84 / EPSG 4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version Text
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Pages/Cetaceans.aspx JCDP Data Portal
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320713001055 Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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SCANS survey data has been processed by the Sea Mammal Research Unit, St Andrews follow strict quality assurance protocols. The results of the survey have been published in Biological Conservation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.04.010
Field definitions are compliment with the JCDP data standard. Bespoke definitions for SCANS data are as follows:
SurveyTeam:
Observer 1 = primary platform, port side,
Observer 2 = primary platform, starboard side,
Observer 3 = secondary (tracker) platform, port side,
Observer 4 = secondary (tracker), starboard side
Metadata
- File identifier
- 04cdd959-d36b-4f6e-b3e7-622268d719b1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-04-29T13:34:58.203Z
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Sea Mammal Research Unit
smru@st-andrews.ac.uk
Point of contact Joint Cetacean Data Programme
marinemammals@jncc.gov marinemammals@jncc.gov.uk
Distributor
Overviews
Spatial extent
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