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Metadata: 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)
Abstract:
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 20085MEPF. 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 20097MEPF. 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.
Data holder:
British Geological Survey (BGS)
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 34208 |
| 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. | 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) |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | Gardline 7776 |
| 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. | abc9f747-548c-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | BGS_CMD_REF485 |
| 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. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2008-10-14 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2009-02-18 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 5 |
| Spatial resolution unit | This describes the unit of spatial resolution which for distance must be metres. | urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001 |
| 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 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 20085MEPF. 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 20097MEPF. 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. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | 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. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | NDGO0001 |
| Keyword title | NERC OAI Harvesting | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geology |
| Keyword title | Geology | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | soil and sediment |
| Keyword title | soil and sediment | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | crust |
| Keyword title | crust | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Magnetics |
| Keyword title | Magnetics | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Two-dimensional seismic reflection |
| Keyword title | Two-dimensional seismic reflection | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Side-scan sonar |
| Keyword title | Side-scan sonar | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.9282 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2.6152 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.7981 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.2823 |
| Regional sea | East Anglia | |
| Indefatigable | ||
| Flemish Bight | ||
| Spurn | ||
| Southern North Sea | ||
| NORTH SEA | ||
| 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 | British Geological Survey (BGS) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 667 1000 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)131 668 4140 | |
| Delivery point | The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South | |
| Postal code | EH14 4AP | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | UK | |
| enquiries@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | British Geological Survey (BGS) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 667 1000 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)131 668 4140 | |
| Delivery point | The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South | |
| Postal code | EH14 4AP | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | UK | |
| enquiries@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| 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 | British Geological Survey (BGS) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 667 1000 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)131 668 4140 | |
| Delivery point | The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South | |
| Postal code | EH14 4AP | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | UK | |
| enquiries@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund | |
| offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html?cruise=2008/5_MEPF |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | BGS Offshore Geoindex |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | search |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
| 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. | 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]" |
| 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. | 2009-02-18 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-17 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-04-16 |
| 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 2.3.5 |