Risk of collision with whales in Europe Seas, Jun. 2020

The raster dataset represents the risk of collision of whales with vessels in Europe Seas.

The most vulnerable species from ship strikes are cetaceans and turtles, since they go to the surface to breathe. On the other hand, their migration routes can overlap with shipping lanes. The collisions can produce the death or injury of the animals, and are an important threat for the conservation of these species.

The dataset has been prepared in the context of the development of the first European Maritime Transport Environmental Report (EMSA-EEA report, 2021: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/maritime-transport).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-11-01
Date (Publication)
2020-06-16
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_1_km_risk-collision_p_2019_v01_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-252-en

Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
0.5 deg

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
1 km
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
2019-10-01 2019-10-31

Extent

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

  • marine ecosystem

  • risk

  • environment

  • ship

  • whale

  • marine environment

  • sea

  • ocean

  • aquatic environment

  • environmental quality

  • marine biology

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Bay of Biscay

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Iceland Sea

  • Kattegat

  • English Channel

  • Norwegian Sea

  • North Sea

  • Adriatic Sea

  • Celtic Sea

  • Barents Sea

  • Baltic Sea

  • Mediterranean Sea

  • Ionian Sea

  • Black Sea

Spatial scope

  • European

EEA Management Plan

  • 2021 1.2.5

EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

  • Seas and coasts

  • Nature protection and restoration

  • Transport and mobility

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GeoTIFF

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_risk-collision_p_2019_v01_r00/Risk_of_WhaleShip_collision_ShippingLnTransformed.tif

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2021

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title
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
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

The risk of collision with whales was created using the EMODnet Human Activities Vessel Density Map 2017, considering all ships, and taking the year average value, together with expert reviewed whale distribution models from AQUAMAPS, version 10/2019 ( https://www.aquamaps.org/) for whales that are regarded as having a risk of colliding with ships. Regarding the EMODnet vessel density raster, values over 100 were truncated to 100 to remove high value cells due to ships idling in ports or anchoring sites with their AIS transponders turned on. Distribution model values for blue whale, sei whale, humpback whale, sperm whale, fin whale and northern right whale were summed per 0.5-degree c-squares. The northern right whale model only describes the range of the western population of this species, since the eastern population is probably almost extinct. Thus, the northern right whale model only partly overlaps with the EEA area on interest. Lastly, the summed distribution models were multiplied with the truncated EMODnet vessel density data, which were log transformed (ln+1).

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
22ad5ddf-967d-4ce7-9933-f7ac89e0b638

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/22ad5ddf-967d-4ce7-9933-f7ac89e0b638

Date info (Creation)
2020-06-17T12:20:06Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:40:45.752647Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2021 1.2.5
EEA topics

Biodiversity Nature protection and restoration Seas and coasts Transport and mobility
GEMET

aquatic environment environment environmental quality marine biology marine ecosystem marine environment ocean risk sea ship whale
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Species distribution
Spatial scope

European


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