21046309-55c2-4888-a596-5c9a9bb30320 eng Graeme Duncan Joint Nature Conservation Committee Graeme.Duncan@jncc.gov.uk 2020-01-15T12:09:51 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS 1984 Eastern Approaches to the Firth of Forth, Wee Bankie to Gourdon area Rule-based habitat Map 2013 GB001251 2014-09-30T00:00:00 The objective of this project was to generate seabed habitat maps for locations with full coverage acoustic datasets to as detailed a hierarchical level as possible within the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland (version 04.05), also known as MNCR classification, (Connor et al. 2004). The acoustic data were at various stages of processing and interpretation, therefore the mapping of habitats and biotopes in some areas have required a greater amount of work to reach the same level compared to other areas. The constituent polygons within the habitat/biotope maps are labelled to an appropriate level of the Habitat Classification and translated to the corresponding EUNIS code. In order to generate seabed habitat maps for the areas the data associated with each area were required to undergo some preliminary preparation and processing in order to ensure suitability and compatibly with the mapping methodologies employed. The data were then processed using a top-down approach was adopted based on the methods developed by MESH and UKSeaMap and used by EUSeaMap, which utilised the updated seabed substrate information provided by BGS. Habitat maps for the area have been produced (the level of habitat detail which could be mapped was restricted to level 3 or 4 of the EUNIS classification and level 2 or 3 of the MNCR classification) with associated metadata and peripheral supplementary data to aid in future analysis and interpretation. A confidence assessment using the MESH confidence assessment method has been undertaken for each habitat map produced and certainty of classification maps accompany each habitat map also. Research JNCC Graeme Duncan Joint Nature Conservation Committee Marine Mapping Scientist Monkstone House, City Road Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE1 1JY United Kingdom Graeme.Duncan@jncc.gov.uk thumbnail large_thumbnail North Sea Wee Bankie Marine habitat mapping EUNIS Habitats and biotopes Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 Available under the Open Government Licence 2.0 eng environment 2014-09-30T15:00:00 -1.94393 -0.831370541 55.62357 56.17477 Sotheran, I. & Crawford-Avis, O., (2014), Mapping habitats and biotopes from acoustic datasets to strengthen the information base of Marine Protected Areas in Scottish waters ÔÇô Phase 2, JNCC Report 526, ISSN 0963 8901 ESRI Shapefile 2015 https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/access-data/launch-map-viewer/?zoom=9&center=-1.38765,55.89917&layerIds=501&baseLayerId=1&activeFilters=NobwRANghgngpgJwJIBMwC4CsAGAjAGjADMBLCAF0VQwBYB2Q0ixAGQHs2BrAVwAdUAzhmABdRmUoIAKnAAe5DGADiAIWx4ATJlxgAviKA WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link EMODnet Seabed Habitats Map Viewer View map "GB001251" on the EMODnet Seabed Habitats Map Viewer https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms? OGC:WMS gb001251 View map "GB001251" through the EMODnet Seabed Habitats "Map Library" Web Map Service https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs? OGC:WFS gb001251 Access data from map "GB001251" through the EMODnet Seabed Habitats "Map Library" Web Feature Service https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB001251.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link EMODnet Seabed Habitats download