ICES Metadata Catalogue
Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS) III
The third iteration of the Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS-III) project would also broaden the survey area to European Atlantic shelf waters. The survey was supported by Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK, with an independent project supported by Ireland, ObSERVE, is conducting surveys in Irish waters during the period 2015-2017.
SCANS-III is a large-scale ship and aerial survey to study the distribution and abundance of cetaceans in European Atlantic waters. The survey was conducted predominantly during July 2016, when three ships and seven aircraft surveyed along predetermined transects for whales, dolphins and porpoises. A primary aim of SCANS-III was to provide robust large-scale estimates of cetacean abundance, essential to assessments of Favourable Conservation Status of species under the Habitats Directive and to assessments of Good Environmental Status (GES) under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
Survey methods are detailed in SCANS III report and outputs available online: https://scans3.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/resources/
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-05-12
- Citation identifier
- https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/142ad476-8050-4ed3-aad4-781e7703e347
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Sea Mammal Research Unit
smru@st-andrews.ac.uk
Custodian 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
- Other restrictions
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Restricted; available upon request to the data owner
- 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
- 2016-07-01 After
- End date
- 2016-07-31 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
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://scans3.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SCANS III website
- 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.
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
- 142ad476-8050-4ed3-aad4-781e7703e347 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-04-29T13:27:08.248Z
- 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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