Marine Monitoring Sites
Site location of Natural Resources Wales' (NRWs) Marine Monitoring Sites within Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). This is general location of the sites where marine monitoring takes place and does not show the individual sample locations. It includes the location of monitoring sites for subtidal rock, subtidal sediment, intertidal rock, intertidal sediment, lagoons, marine climate monitoring sites, marine birds and bird food sites, seals and cetacean monitoring sites as well as areas where acoustic and drop down video monitoring takes place. Information is also available for potential sea cave monitoring sites, however this is not currently a NRW monitoring programme. The purpose of this data capture was to provide an overview of Countryside Council for Wales' (CCW) Marine SAC Monitoring Sites. This is a Wales-wide but concentrated in the SAC and Special Protection Areas (SPAs). However additional sites will be added as they are identified.
- Identification
- Extent
- Distribution
- Quality
- Keywords
- Spatial Reference System
- Content
- Constraints
- Maintenance
- Metadata
Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS108805
- Alternative Title
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- Wales monitoring points.LYR
- Safleoedd Monitro Morol
- Metadata Language
- English
- Lineage
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All points have been plotted from original waypoints recorded on survey, extracted from Marine Monitoring reports or extracted from samples in Marine Recorder. Several GIS layers have been produced. 1) Point location of survey areas (WalesMonitoringLocations_v5.TAB) 2) Detailed survey locations of the Marine Nature Reserve at Skomer (Skomer monitoring locations.lyr) 3) Line Transects for large scale monitoring, such as for birds and cetaceans (Wales monitoring transects.lyr) 4) Areas within which remotes sensing, such as video or acoustic surveys take place (Wales monitoring areas.lyr) 5) Areas where seal monitoring takes place (Seal monitoring sites.lyr) All samples are mapped in British National Grid projection, although the native WGS84 grid references are retained in the table where originally recorded.
- Additional Information
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For more information about individual sample location which can be found on http://www.ukdmos.org/ .
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2008-12-31
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 2002-01-01
- End date
- 2008-12-31
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Extent
- Geographic Extent
- Wales (WLS)
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Vertical Extent
- Medin Extent Keyword
- benthic boundary layer
Distribution
- Format Type and Description
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Geographic Information System
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- Specification
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ESRI Feature Class
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Geographic Information System
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Quality
Data quality
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Lineage
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All points have been plotted from original waypoints recorded on survey, extracted from Marine Monitoring reports or extracted from samples in Marine Recorder. Several GIS layers have been produced. 1) Point location of survey areas (WalesMonitoringLocations_v5.TAB) 2) Detailed survey locations of the Marine Nature Reserve at Skomer (Skomer monitoring locations.lyr) 3) Line Transects for large scale monitoring, such as for birds and cetaceans (Wales monitoring transects.lyr) 4) Areas within which remotes sensing, such as video or acoustic surveys take place (Wales monitoring areas.lyr) 5) Areas where seal monitoring takes place (Seal monitoring sites.lyr) All samples are mapped in British National Grid projection, although the native WGS84 grid references are retained in the table where originally recorded.
Keywords
Keywords
Keywords
- NRW Thesaurus
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- marine (maritime)
- marine biology (subtidal biology) (littoral biology) (sublittoral biology)(intertidal biology)(see also seashore)
- Special Area of Conservation Monitoring
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-12-31
Keywords
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Habitat characterisation
- Habitat extent
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-01-06
Keywords
Spatial Reference System
Content
Content Information
NRW Profile
Custom Elements
Constraints
Constraints
Limitations on Public Access and Use
- Restriction type
- Other restrictions
Access Constraints Directive
- Limitations
- no limitations
Access Constraints Text
- Other constraints
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There are no access restrictions to this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
Use Constraints
- Use constraints type
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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© CNC/NRW 2008. There are no use restrictions on this data. Recipients may re-use, reproduce, disseminate this data free of charge in any format or medium, provided they do so accurately, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright, and do not use it in a misleading context. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose, that dissemination or publishing does not result in duplication, and that it is fairly interpreted. Advice on interpretation should be sought where required. To avoid re-using old data, users should periodically obtain the latest version from the original source.
Metadata
Metadata
- File Identifier
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313038383035 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-12-09T12:42:11.639Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
- Metadata Standard Version
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1.0