2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 SV Meridian SEA6 Survey B (or Leg 2) - geophysical survey (Irish Sea)
As part of the Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) a geophysical survey was undertaken on SV Meridian SEA6 Survey B (or Leg 2) in the Irish Sea between Ireland and the Isle of Man and at the north of Wales.
Multibeam, sidescan sonar and chirp seismic data were collected. 11 processed gridded multibeam files are available. Raw data are also available. 11 sidescan mosaic tif files available. Raw seismic data are also available. Cruise reports are available.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2004-01-01
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_171
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Paul Henni
Custodian Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Resource format
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Name Version Documents
Image
Text or Plaintext
- Keywords
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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Hydrography
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Use limitation
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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.
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Distance
- 5 m
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Title
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
- Date (Revision)
- 2006-01-01
- Code
- Irish Sea
- Begin date
- 2004-08-24
- End date
- 2004-09-09
- Supplemental Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::32630
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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OSAE Offshore Survey and Engineering Gesellschaft fur Seevermessung mbHwho were contracted to perform offshore survey operations as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Equipment used included a Reson Seabat 8101 multibeam (Swath), Edgetech DF1000 sidescan sonar and Chirp II Cap 6600 3.5kHz sub-bottom seismic profiler.
The cruise report were prepared by A G Judd, Geotek Ltd and a survey report was prepared by OSAE Offshore Survey and Engineering Gesellschaft fur Seevermessung mbH.
Metadata
- File identifier
- aba64100-c181-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2011-08-30
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.5
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mary Mowat
Point of contact