Input of continuous anthropogenic sound in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents the input of continuous anthropogenic sound in the European Seas. Continuous anthropogenic underwater noise is found in the entire European marine area and is mainly produced by maritime traffic. As no thresholds for pressure have been agreed yet, even areas of low or infrequent maritime traffic are included as pressures. This dataset uses shipping density as a representation of distribution of continuous underwater noise.

This dataset is based on a truncated version of the EMODnet (Automatic Identification System) AIS based vessel density dataset for 2017 (all ships, year average). The vessel density was rescaled from a 1 km to 10 km resolution (mean values) using the EEA 10 km grid. The dataset has been transformed to a logarithmic scale (ln1).

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.

Date (Creation): 2019-05-01

Date (Publication): 2020-01-27

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_r_3035_10_km_cont-anthrop-sound_p_2017_v01_r00

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	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

Point of contact

No information provided.

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

Keywords

GEMET

traffic noise
noise emission
ship
noise
sea
environmental pressure
pressure

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Ionian Sea
Kattegat
Barents Sea
Bay of Biscay
Mediterranean Sea
North Sea
Norwegian Sea
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Black Sea
Adriatic Sea
Iceland Sea
Celtic Sea
Baltic Sea
English Channel

Spatial scope

European

EEA topics

Noise
Pollution
Transport and mobility
Seas and coasts

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 of dataset: English

Topic category

Environment
Oceans

Begin date: 2017-01-01

End date: 2017-12-31

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_10_km_cont-anthrop-sound_p_2017_v01_r00/Input_of_continuous_anthropogenic_sound.tif
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/0ab524a2-fd09-4185-adc8-58998efe8f23	Direct download
ESRI:REST	https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/Pressures_Continuous_anthropogenic_sound/MapServer
OGC:WMS	https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Pressures_Continuous_anthropogenic_sound/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance 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

Statement: A truncated version of the EMODnet AIS based vessel density dataset (2017, all ships, year average, see on: https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Vessel+Density+) was used to represent input of continuous anthropogenic sound. Density values over 100 were truncated to 100, as these very large values are presumed to be caused by stationary and idling ships that have their AIS transponder turned on. The vessel density was rescaled from a 1 km resolution to 10 km (EEA 10 km grid) by calculating the mean. The dataset has been transformed to a logarithmic scale (ln1).

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