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2003 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 RV Kommandor Jack SEA5 Survey - seabed sampling survey with video and photography (North Sea)

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
15 March 2024
Topic
Not set

Summary

As part of the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment project for Area 5 (SEA5) an environmental survey was carried out in the North Sea (Moray Firth, Southern Trench, Sandy Riddle, Pobie Bank, Braer Study Area, Fair Isle, Papa and Turbot Banks, Smith Bank and JONSIS Transect). The aim of the survey was to acquire biological, physical, and chemical sediment samples together with video and digital stills photography to groundtruth the geophysical data and to enable a general characterisation of seafloor habitats and community types present within a number of offshore areas. A report is available which provides an overview of the field sampling work undertaken.

565 samples were collected. 47 videos are available. 1073 photographs are available

Data links

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal HTML 15/3/2024

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
30 August 2011
Harvest GUID
aba64100-c167-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd
Extent (Latitude)
61.5° to 55.8°
Extent (Longitude)
-4° to 1°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Dataset reference date (publication)
2003-01-01
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (BGS) (custodian); Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) (originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

Contact

Enquiries

offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

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Licence information

The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.