Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Data and Related Information (1999-)

The SEA portal is managed by the BGS on behalf of DECC and provides free access to downloadable data, information and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The Department of Trade and Industry (now DECC) began a sequence of sectoral SEAs of the implications of further licensing of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) for oil and gas exploration and production in 1999. The SEA Process subdivided the UKCS into eight areas shown; beginning in 2008, integrated Offshore Energy SEAs have been undertaken that cover the whole UKCS. An integral part of the SEA programme has been a series of research and monitoring surveys commissioned to acquire new data about the offshore environment and used to help inform the relevant SEAs. Many files can be downloaded directly from portal. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS.

Date (Creation): 1999

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605657

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)		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	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Custodian
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

Maintenance and update frequency: Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

UK Location (INSPIRE)
MEDIN
Marine geology

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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.

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: Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND [id=2001428]
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) (aggregate) [id=2002274]
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

Begin date: 1999

End date: 1999 After

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 / UTM zone 29N (EPSG::32629)

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 / UTM zone 30N (EPSG::32630)

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 / UTM zone 31N (EPSG::32631)

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
data files (in a variety of specialist formats)
images
video

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/data/sea/home.html	Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data Portal

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: The 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. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf.