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.

Identification info

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	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: 10 km

Topic category

Environment
Oceans

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 2012-01-01 2017-12-31

Extent

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

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

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_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/

OnLine resource: Direct download

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

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

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