Physical loss to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents the physical loss of the seabed in the European seas.

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 normalized raster (10km grid cell) derived from EMODnet, MED-IAMER and 4C Offshore datasets and with temporal reference 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.

Date ( Creation ): 2019-05-01

Date ( Publication ): 2020-01-27

Edition: 01.00

Identifier: eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Processor

European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC-ICM) -

Denmark

Custodian

European Environment Agency

Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , 1050 , Denmark

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Oceanographic geographical features

EEA keyword list

physical
seabed loss
combined effect index
gas rigs
oil rigs
human activities
windfarms

EEA categories ( Theme )

geospatial data

GEMET ( Theme )

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. ( Place )

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 ( Theme )

European

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

Metadata language: en

Topic category

Environment
Oceans

Begin date: 2012-01-01

End date: 2017-12-31

CRS identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

GTiff ( )

OnLine resource: Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )

OnLine resource: https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/water/marine/assessments/eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/Physical_loss_05_2019.tif ( EEA:FILEPATH )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The dataset was created by combining 5 different human activities layers:

1. Dredging and dumping of dredged material (EMODnet Human Activities)

2. Oil and gas rigs, offshore installations (EMODnet, MED-IAMER)

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

4. Sand and gravel extraction (EMODnet Human Activities)

5. Windfarms (4C Offshore database)

All human activities layers were normalized and then summed into one raster.

The temporal extent varies between the data sources.