142ad476-8050-4ed3-aad4-781e7703e347 Sea Mammal Research Unit smru@st-andrews.ac.uk Joint Cetacean Data Programme marinemammals@jncc.gov.uk 2024-04-29T13:27:08.248Z WGS84 / EPSG 4326 Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS) III 2022-05-12 https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/142ad476-8050-4ed3-aad4-781e7703e347 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/ Sea Mammal Research Unit smru@st-andrews.ac.uk ICES info@ices.dk Joint Cetacean Data Programme marinemammals@jncc.gov.uk https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/f7b9234a-8f9c-4db3-bcd3-898952b5cd9a/attachments/jcdp.jpg Administrative units Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme Cetacean Joint Cetacean Data Programme SCANS public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive Restricted; available upon request to the data owner This data is public access and can be downloaded from the JCDP Data Portal. f7b9234a-8f9c-4db3-bcd3-898952b5cd9a English biota oceans -21.3174 12.1814 33.8939 62.6987 2016-07-01 2016-07-31 Text https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Pages/Cetaceans.aspx WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link JCDP Data Portal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320713001055 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management Biological Conservation; Volume 164, August 2013, Pages 107-122 https://scans3.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link SCANS III website Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services true 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