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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) MCZ: Markham's Triangle: Multibeam, Benthic Sampling and Video survey mrtr_cend0812: Northern North Sea (30/04/2012 to 05/05/2012)

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
28 August 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

Groundtruthing survey collecting Hamon grab samples (for infaunal analysis and PSA) and video and still image data. Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data. WGS84 latitude and longitude co-ordinates collected by Differential Global Positioning System (D-GPS), depths corrected to Chart Datum (CD). Raw and processed data delivered to Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK (Cefas). These data are archived with the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centres (DACs) including the British Geological Survey (BGS) DAC for geology and geophysics, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH) and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) bathymetry DAC. The full site data package including raw is also available on request from BGS.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
28 August 2026
Harvest GUID
2ac7c360-dfb6-0d26-e054-002128a47908
Extent (Latitude)
54.0110° to 53.8540°
Extent (Longitude)
2.4295° to 2.9073°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Dataset reference date (publication)
2012-05-05
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (BGS) (custodian); Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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