Identification

Title

Moray Firth benthic biotope map

Abstract

Envision Mapping Ltd was contracted to undertake a survey of the Moray Firth cSAC within the 30m contour. The purpose was to map the main sediment features and biota using acoustic remote sensing techniques combined with grab and video sampling. A RoxAnnâ„¢ acoustic ground discrimination system was used in conjunction with a GeoSwathâ„¢ interferometric swath bathymetric system. The survey was comprehensive (100% cover with the swath system or a minimum track spacing of 80m) over priority areas but incomplete over areas outside these priority areas. The biotopes were classified using the most recent Marine Habitat Classification (Connor et al. 2004) using a combination of multivariate analysis and video analysis and matching the characterising species to the classification system. Additional information source: Foster-Smith, R.L., et al., 2005. Sublittoral Biotope Mapping & Survey of the Moray Firth Candidate SAC Project

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/96697bb7-91d5-422d-b523-d4bf86999089-GB100005.zip

name: GB100005.zip

Unique resource identifier

code

96697bb7-91d5-422d-b523-d4bf86999089

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Foster-Smith, R.L., et al., 2005. Sublittoral Biotope Mapping & Survey of the Moray Firth Candidate SAC Project

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Seabed Habitats and Geology

GB100005

Corpulent

MNCR

Show on webGIS

Translated to EUNIS

Nature Conservation

AGDS

Grabs

Interferometric sonar

Towed video

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-4.26625

East bounding longitude

-3.303394

North bounding latitude

58.05772

South bounding latitude

57.491413

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2004-07-19

End position

2004-08-12

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2004-12-31

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Classification system details: MNCR 04.05, 12 categories. Survey technique details: Track spacing of 350m for the priority areas with 1000m for the areas outwith the priority areas. Ground truthed by towed video recorder and grab samples.. Associated data

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Geospatial (vector polygon)

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-06-14

Metadata language