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Metadata: 2008, Amec Wind Energy Ltd., Race Bank and Docking Shoal Offshore Wind Farms, Geophysical Investigations at the Proposed Wind Farm Sites with Associated Cable Route Corridors
Abstract:
A major hydrographic and geophysical survey has been undertaken over a large area off the north Norfolk and east Lincolnshire coasts. This area covers much of the Race Bank and Docking Shoal sand banks, where two offshore wind farms are proposed. Additional surveys were carried out within The Wash, in order to find suitable export cable routes from the proposed development areas to the mainland. A joint venture proposal to carry out the above surveys was put together by Emu Ltd and Osiris Projects and accepted by Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd, with the surveys being carried out during the period 19th November 2005 to 11th September 2006, using Osiris Projects’ own survey vessels MV ‘Freja’ and MV ‘Lia’, together with Emu Ltd’s vessels MV ‘Emu Surveyor’ and MV ‘Morven’. The primary objectives of the survey were to acquire swath bathymetry, seabed features and sub-bottom profiling data across the area. This included the use of acoustic ground discrimination systems (AGDS), in order to define areas of similar sediment type and sensitive habitat features, by utilising the primary and multiple returns from high frequency echo sounders. By overlaying information on biological communities from the grab surveys, a ‘biotype’ map could be produced to show the different habitats and species over the area surveyed.
Data holder:
Centrica Renewable Energy Limited
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 5168 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2008, Amec Wind Energy Ltd., Race Bank and Docking Shoal Offshore Wind Farms, Geophysical Investigations at the Proposed Wind Farm Sites with Associated Cable Route Corridors |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | a3caf5634b2e5efa89c6239113dbea78 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 4958 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2005-11-19 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2006-09-11 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | A major hydrographic and geophysical survey has been undertaken over a large area off the north Norfolk and east Lincolnshire coasts. This area covers much of the Race Bank and Docking Shoal sand banks, where two offshore wind farms are proposed. Additional surveys were carried out within The Wash, in order to find suitable export cable routes from the proposed development areas to the mainland. A joint venture proposal to carry out the above surveys was put together by Emu Ltd and Osiris Projects and accepted by Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd, with the surveys being carried out during the period 19th November 2005 to 11th September 2006, using Osiris Projects’ own survey vessels MV ‘Freja’ and MV ‘Lia’, together with Emu Ltd’s vessels MV ‘Emu Surveyor’ and MV ‘Morven’. The primary objectives of the survey were to acquire swath bathymetry, seabed features and sub-bottom profiling data across the area. This included the use of acoustic ground discrimination systems (AGDS), in order to define areas of similar sediment type and sensitive habitat features, by utilising the primary and multiple returns from high frequency echo sounders. By overlaying information on biological communities from the grab surveys, a ‘biotype’ map could be produced to show the different habitats and species over the area surveyed. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | A joint venture proposal to carry out the above surveys was put together by Emu Ltd and Osiris Projects and accepted by Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd, with the surveys being carried out during the period 19th November 2005 to 11th September 2006. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bathymetry and Seafloor topography | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Pre-Construction Engineering | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Magnetometers | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Magnetic Anomalies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | UXO | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Benthic Habitats | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geophysical | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Benthic Ecology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seabed Sediments | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Socio-economic and Infrastructure | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.334745321484 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.89551225739273 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.823433 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.236688 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Centrica Renewable Energy Limited | |
| Phone | 01753 492 188 | |
| Delivery point | Millstream East 1st Floor, Maidenhead Road, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 5GD | |
| renewables@centrica.com | ||
| URL | www.centrica.com | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Centrica Renewable Energy Limited | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1753 494 000 | |
| Delivery point | Millstream East 1st Floor, Maidenhead Road, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 5GD | |
| renewables@centrica.com | ||
| URL | www.centrica.com | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | EMU Ltd | |
| Phone | +44 (0) 1489 860050 | |
| Fax | +44 (0) 1489 861051 | |
| Delivery point | 1 Mill Court, The Sawmills, Durley, Southampton, SO32 2EJ | |
| Marketing@Fugroemu.com | ||
| URL | http://www.fugroemu.com/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Osiris Projects | |
| Phone | +44 (0)151 328 1120 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)151 343 1057 | |
| Delivery point | Maritime House, 4 Brunel Road, Croft Business Park, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 3NY, UK | |
| enquiries@osirisprojects.co.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1838/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | no conditions apply |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | .csv |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2026-04-19 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2026-04-19 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2014-01-21 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.7 |