Physical disturbance to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents physical disturbance to the seabed in the European seas. Several human activities disturb the seabed either directly or indirectly. Alteration of benthic living conditions as a result of increased sedimentation or attenuation of light penetration, abrasion of the seabed and exploitation of benthic biota, temporarily disturb the benthic habitat quality.


The dataset is an aggregation of several different human activities that cause physical disturbance to the seabed: aquaculture, demersal fishing, dredging and dumping of dredged material, oil and gas rigs, offshore installations, ports, sand and gravel extraction, shellfish mariculture, shipping in shallow waters and windfarms. The resulting dataset is a raster (10km grid cell) derived from EMODnet, MED-IAMER, JRC-STECF, OSPAR, HELCOM and 4C Offshore datasets, and with reference temporal coverage from 2012 to 2017.


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-disturbance_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

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Keywords
Keywords

GEMET

  • dredged material

  • sand extraction

  • oil extraction

  • pressure

  • sea

  • fishery

  • dredging

  • fishing

  • harbour

  • wind power

  • sea bed

  • aquaculture

  • shellfish

  • environmental pressure

  • gravel extraction

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Kattegat

  • Barents Sea

  • Bay of Biscay

  • Celtic Sea

  • Ionian Sea

  • Norwegian Sea

  • North Sea

  • Baltic Sea

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Iceland Sea

  • English Channel

  • Adriatic Sea

  • Mediterranean Sea

  • Black 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/Pêche et Aquaculture

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Espèces

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Géologie

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Hydrodynamique

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS

  • /Données dérivées/Produits composites
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no limitations to public access
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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-disturbance_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/Physical_disturbance_unnormalized.tif

WWW:URL

 		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/84b01013-692f-4342-bd75-28a0225848c2

Direct download

ESRI:REST

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

OGC:WMS

 		https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Pressures_Physical_disturbance_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 9 different human activities layers:


1. Aquaculture (EMODnet: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Finfish+Production, MED-IAMER: https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea )

2. Demersal fishing (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre - Independent experts of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (JRC STECF), OSPAR, HELCOM, see "Bycatch by bottom touching mobile gears in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020")

3. Dredging and dumping of dredged material (EMODnet Human Activities: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Dredging, 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 )

4. 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 )

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

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

7. Shellfish mariculture (EMODnet: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Shellfish+Production, MED-IAMER: https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/med-iamer-integrated-actions-mitigate-environmental-risks-mediterranean-sea )

8. Shipping in shallow waters (based on EMODnet vessel density 2017 - see: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Vessel+Density+, and EMODnet bathymetry 2016 - see: https://portal.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/ )

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


Most activity layers were in presence/ absence (1/0) format, except for the demersal fishing and shipping in shallow waters layers which depicted the intensity of the pressure (i.e. the scale was 0–1 after normalization). All human activities layers were normalized and then summed into one raster. The temporal extent varies between the data sources.
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Metadata

File identifier
84b01013-692f-4342-bd75-28a0225848c2 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-11-20T15:28:39
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
aquaculture dredged material dredging environmental pressure fishery fishing gravel extraction harbour oil extraction pressure sand extraction sea sea bed shellfish 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/Pêche et Aquaculture /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports /Etat du Milieu/Espèces /Etat du Milieu/Géologie /Etat du Milieu/Hydrodynamique
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
/Données dérivées/Produits composites

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