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Marine Multibeam Backscatter Data from around the UK (2005 Onwards)

The British Geological Survey (BGS) holds an archive of multibeam backscatter data from BGS, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) and other organisations. The data are stored within the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. The majority of the data were collected and processed for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) under the Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). Backscatter image files (in GeoTIFF format) for a survey can be downloaded using the URL link provided or via the Deposited Data Search https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html?simpleText=backscatter&subjectList=3159#. Backscatter data is useful for seabed characterisation for geological and habitat mapping. BGS works with the DAC for bathymetry data at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to archive the backscatter data. View and download the related bathymetry data via the ADMIRALTY Marine Data Portal https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inspire-portal-and-medin-bathymetry-data-archive-centre.

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Date (Creation)
2005
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605639
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

not available

Owner

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Custodian

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Owner

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Bathymetry

  • Sea floor

  • UK Location (INSPIRE)

  • Marine geology

  • MEDIN

dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • MEDIN
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Use constraints
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.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type
Grid
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
BRISTOL CHANNEL [id=2001350]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier
CELTIC SEA [id=2001353]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier
ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier
IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier
NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier
NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier
UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

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Begin date
2005
End date
2005 After
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 / UTM zone 30N (EPSG::32630)
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
Name Version

Geotiff

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm

Offshore GeoIndex

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Offshore/offshore_data/MapServer/WmsServer

Offshore theme

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Offshore/offshore_cultural/MapServer/WmsServer
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

For BGS multibeam surveys, processed backscatter data is created using CARIS software. BGS works with the partner Data Archive Centre (DAC) for bathymetry at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to obtain multibeam bathymetry data, mainly from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). The data often includes processed backscatter data which BGS make available, but if processed backscatter data are not included, in some cases BGS creates processed backscatter data from the raw data.

Metadata

File identifier
c35db9dd-2a07-6c2d-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605639

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

MEDIN UK Location (INSPIRE)


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