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Metadata: 2011-2012, APEM Ltd., London Array, Aerial Bird Surveys
Abstract:
This report summarises the findings of the winter 2011 / 12 during construction aerial surveys of the London Array Ltd. Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) site, and associated control Zones, for birds and marine mammals. Construction of the Phase 1 area of the London Array Ltd. OWF commenced in March 2011 and is due to be completed by the end of 2012. The aerial surveys are designed to meet the requirements of the Marine Licence1 granted in respect of the wind farm, and to satisfy the wider Ornithological Review Panel (ORP) process. The ORP was set up prior to award of consent as an expert panel comprising representatives from London Array, Natural England and Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) to discuss and agree the scope of the ornithological monitoring required under the phased approach in the London Array Marine Licence, and to agree an interaction figure that would not have an adverse effect on integrity of the likely Greater Thames Estuary Special Protection Area (SPA). In order to satisfy Marine Licence conditions, during construction monitoring for Phase 1 development and pre-construction monitoring of Phase 2 is required, necessitating aerial survey of the London Array OWF site and a control Zone. Aerial surveys designed to fulfil the ORP process cover further control Zones.
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
Use constraints:
Publically Available
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 5409 |
| 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. | 2011-2012, APEM Ltd., London Array, Aerial Bird Surveys |
| 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. | cc712cc0cc0d4a909c84652c1d0dfc34 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | MDE-77-3611 |
| 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 | 2011-11-02 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2012-02-09 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 1 |
| Spatial resolution unit | This describes the unit of spatial resolution which for distance must be metres. | http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m |
| 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. | This report summarises the findings of the winter 2011 / 12 during construction aerial surveys of the London Array Ltd. Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) site, and associated control Zones, for birds and marine mammals. Construction of the Phase 1 area of the London Array Ltd. OWF commenced in March 2011 and is due to be completed by the end of 2012. The aerial surveys are designed to meet the requirements of the Marine Licence1 granted in respect of the wind farm, and to satisfy the wider Ornithological Review Panel (ORP) process. The ORP was set up prior to award of consent as an expert panel comprising representatives from London Array, Natural England and Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) to discuss and agree the scope of the ornithological monitoring required under the phased approach in the London Array Marine Licence, and to agree an interaction figure that would not have an adverse effect on integrity of the likely Greater Thames Estuary Special Protection Area (SPA). In order to satisfy Marine Licence conditions, during construction monitoring for Phase 1 development and pre-construction monitoring of Phase 2 is required, necessitating aerial survey of the London Array OWF site and a control Zone. Aerial surveys designed to fulfil the ORP process cover further control Zones. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | High definition digital aerial surveys were conducted during the winter period between November 2011 and February 2012. Four surveys of six survey Zones were completed in total, with one survey conducted each month. Each survey was flown on a 500 m grid at a 3 cm Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) resolution to ensure comparability with the 2010 / 11 pre-construction surveys (for detailed rationale, see APEM (2010)). The primary aim of APEM’s grid survey methodology is to derive sufficient independent estimates of bird density (and distribution) to target a predefined level of precision around population estimates. The coarseness (spacing) of the grid (an image is collected at each grid internode) is determined by the predicted number of samples required to achieve the predefined level of confidence. Aerial surveys were undertaken using either a Vulcanair P68 Observer twin engine survey aircraft or a Britten-Norman Islander survey aircraft. |
| 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 | Species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird counts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Cetacean abundance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird behaviour | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.0291 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.761 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.3877 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.9161 |
| Regional sea | North Sea | |
| atmosphere | ||
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Position name | Marine Data Advisor | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | The Crown Estate 1 St James's Market | |
| Postal code | SW1Y4AH | |
| City | London | |
| mde@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | APEM Ltd. | |
| Delivery point | A17 Embankment, Business Park, Heaton Mersey | |
| Postal code | SK4 3GN | |
| City | Manchester | |
| enquiries@apemltd.co.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.apemltd.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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | The Crown Estate 1 St James's Market | |
| Postal code | SW1Y4AH | |
| City | London | |
| mde@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/ | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Delivery point | The Crown Estate 1 St James's Market | |
| Postal code | SW1Y 4AH | |
| City | London | |
| mde@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/ | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/3611/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | Publically Available |
| 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. | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/faq |
| 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. | 2012-06-29 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2012-06-29 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2009-02-09 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-12 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2022-06-20 |
| 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 | 2.3.8 |