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Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) Geophysical and Multibeam Survey 2008/5_MEPF: MALSF Humber Regional Environmental Characterisation Project, Southern North Sea (14/Oct/2008 to 18/Feb/2009)

This BGS led survey, conducted by Gardline took place between Oct2008 and Mar2009 in 3 phases. The first 2 phases were conducted aboard the Gardline MV Vigilant. The first phase was completed due to the advent of adverse whether. The second phase completed the deeper water portion of the survey Information from the first two phases is held under Survey Number 2008_5_MEPF. A 3rd phase was planned and completed on short notice in the shallow water parts of the survey area aboard the MV Confidante. Information from this third phase is held under Survey Number 2009_7_MEPF. The aim of the Humber Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) survey, (unded through the Marine Environment Protection Fund of the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) was to acquire data, of the highest quality and resolution possible, to enable broadscale characterisation of the seabed habitat, associated biological communities and potential historic environmental assets within the region. The project was managed by the British Geological Survey (BGS), who largely designed the geophysical survey programme, with archaeological direction being supplied by the University of Birmingham and the environmental programme being directed by Marine Ecological Surveys (MES). The “geophysical” and subsequent “ground truthing” field work was carried out by Gardline Geosurveys under the guidance of the other partners. This report and the accompanying similar volume for the ground truthing phase, describe the field operations. The aims of these preliminary phases of the project were to provide data for other interested parties to process. Geophysical data collected includes: sub-tow (Suface tow on Confidante), Side-scan Sonar, Multibeam bathymetry, magnetometer. Technical details of the survey are contained in the Gardline Operations Report 7776/Ops/Geo.

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Alternate title

Gardline 7776

Date (Publication)
2009-02-18
Identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF485
custodian
  British Geological Survey (BGS)
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , Edinburgh , EH14 4AP , UK
+44 (0)131 667 1000
+44 (0)131 668 4140
originator
  Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords
  • NDGO0001

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

  • Geology

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131)

  • soil and sediment
  • crust

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)

  • Magnetics
  • Two-dimensional seismic reflection
  • Side-scan sonar
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Other restrictions
Access constraints
No restrictions, a copyright acknowledgement is required and permission from any third party for the release of the data has been obtained. Inclusion of any third party data will determine the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
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Other restrictions
Other 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.

Use limitation

unrestricted use, copyright acknowledgement - Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced MALSF materials "Contains Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) materials ©Crown Copyright [year]"

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Grid
Distance
5  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
East Anglia

BGS Gazetteer 2023-03-30 revision

Geographic identifier
Flemish Bight

BGS Gazetteer 2023-03-30 revision

Geographic identifier
Spurn

BGS Gazetteer 2023-03-30 revision

Geographic identifier
Indefatigable

BGS Gazetteer 2023-03-30 revision

Geographic identifier
Southern North Sea

Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation

Geographic identifier
NORTH SEA

The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation

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Begin date
2008-10-14
End date
2009-02-18
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

www.epsg.org 2005 revision

Distribution format
distributor
  British Geological Survey (BGS)
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , Edinburgh , EH14 4AP , UK
+44 (0)131 667 1000
+44 (0)131 668 4140
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Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No
Statement

Geophysical equipment types used included: Magnetometer, Sidescan Sonar and Surface Tow Boomer. Gardline was contracted to undertake the survey on behalf of Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund. For more detailed information on the acquisition equipment and data collection techniques, operational standards, data processing methods and quality control procedures used on this survey see the Report of Survey/Cruise Report and associated documentation where available. The information available may vary depending on the age of the survey. Data are checked and loaded to the BGS Coastal and Marine data management system following BGS marine data management procedures.

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abc9f747-548c-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-03-30
Metadata standard name

MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard

Metadata standard version

Version 2.3.5

pointOfContact
  British Geological Survey (BGS)
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , Edinburgh , EH14 4AP , UK
+44 (0)131 667 1000
+44 (0)131 668 4140
 
 

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