Physical loss to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents the physical loss of the seabed in the European seas. Physical habitat loss is an extreme pressure on the marine ecosystem which was defined to include all impacts on the seabed which take more than 12 years to recover, a time span influencing even long living marine mammals and seabirds. Habitat is lost if its substrate, morphology or topography is permanently altered.


The dataset is an aggregation of several different human activities that cause physical loss in the seabed: dredging and dumping of dredged material, oil and gas rigs, offshore installations, ports, sand and gravel extraction and windfarms. The resulting dataset is a raster (10km grid cell) derived from EMODnet, MED-IAMER and 4C Offshore datasets and with temporal reference from 2012 to 2017. Higher values mean more loss causing activity in the area. Due to its resolution, loss causing activity in a cell does not usually mean that all the seabed habitat in the area is lost.


This dataset has been prepared for the calculation of the combined effect index, produced for the ETC/ICM Report 4/2019 "Multiple pressures and their combined effects in Europe's seas" available on: https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-icm/etc-icm-report-4-2019-multiple-pressures-and-their-combined-effects-in-europes-seas- 1.

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Date (Creation)
2019-05-01
Date (Publication)
2020-01-27
Edition

01.00
Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Keywords
Keywords

GEMET

  • sea bed

  • gravel extraction

  • dredged material

  • fishing

  • pressure

  • harbour

  • loss

  • sea

  • oil extraction

  • sand extraction

  • wind power

  • dredging

  • environmental pressure

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • North Sea

  • Bay of Biscay

  • Norwegian Sea

  • English Channel

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Adriatic Sea

  • Black Sea

  • Iceland Sea

  • Ionian Sea

  • Kattegat

  • Mediterranean Sea

  • Barents Sea

  • Baltic Sea

  • Celtic Sea

Spatial scope

  • European

EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

  • Fisheries and aquaculture

  • Production and consumption

  • Industry

  • Seas and coasts

Sous-regions marines

  • /Métropole

  • /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord

  • /Métropole/Mers Celtiques

  • /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne

  • /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Activités et Usages/Industrie et énergie

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Bathymétrie

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Habitats

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS

  • /Données dérivées/Produits composites
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright ). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
10  km
Language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2012-01-01
End date
2017-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
Name Version

GeoTIFF
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

EEA:FILEPATH

 		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/Physical_loss_unnormalized.tif

WWW:URL

 		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/6e2e8ce0-7d81-4904-bf52-e919f784ef6e

Direct download

ESRI:REST

 		https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_loss_to_seabed/MapServer

OGC:WMS

 		https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_loss_to_seabed/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Statement

The dataset was created by combining 5 different human activities layers:


1. Dredging and dumping of dredged material (EMODnet Human Activities - Dredging: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredging, Dumping: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredge+Spoil+Dumping+%28Points%29, https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredge+Spoil+Dumping+%28Polygons%29 )

2. Oil and gas rigs, offshore installations (EMODnet: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Offshore+Installations, MED-IAMER: https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea )

3. Ports (based on EMODnet vessel density 2017, which metadata is available on: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Vessel+Density+ )

4. Sand and gravel extraction (EMODnet Human Activities: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Aggregate+Extraction+Points )

5. Windfarms (4C Offshore database: https://www.4coffshore.com/windfarms/ )


All human activities layers were normalized and then summed into one raster. The temporal extent varies between the data sources.
Source

Metadata

File identifier
6e2e8ce0-7d81-4904-bf52-e919f784ef6e XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-11-20T15:31:56
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

EEA topics
Biodiversity Fisheries and aquaculture Industry Production and consumption Seas and coasts
GEMET
dredged material dredging environmental pressure fishing gravel extraction harbour loss oil extraction pressure sand extraction sea sea bed wind power
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features
Spatial scope
European
Thématiques - SIMM
/Activités et Usages/Industrie et énergie /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports /Etat du Milieu/Bathymétrie /Etat du Milieu/Habitats /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
/Données dérivées/Produits composites

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