Acoustic survey & mapping of sublittoral reefs at Flamborough Head. Lifeforms

• Published by: Natural England
• Last updated: 17 December 2015
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Open Government Licence ; View licence information

Summary

The survey of the marine environment around Flamborough Head was undertaken as part of the BioMar Project which is funded by the European Community through the LIFE Programme. Conflicting data were available to determine the offshore extent of these chalk reefs: estimates varied between 1 and 15 km offshore. To implement effective management of the marine benthic resource, English Nature required data on the geographic extent of the biotopes around Flamborough Head and requested the BioMar project at the University of Newcastle to conduct a biotope mapping survey. This was done using acoustic techniques validated by biological sampling, with the data stored and analysed using geographic information systems (GIS).

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Interactive map	HTML	17 December 2015	Not available
Download from the “EUNIS habitat maps from surveys” package, Broad, Medium and Fine scale data	HTML	17 December 2015	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2015-12-17
• Access contraints: Publicly accessible: NE-OS OGL
• Harvest GUID: 53fd1e72-8f72-44d2-8b08-e9f457857e18
• Extent: Latitude: 64° to 46°
• Extent: Longitude: -26° to 7°
• Spatial reference system: WGS84
• Dataset reference date: 1994-12-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural England (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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