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The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) undertakes routine surveys of harbour and grey seals around Scotland and part of England. The surveys provide the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with information required to fulfil its statutory obligation under the Conservation of Seals Act, 1970, to provide the Scottish Government and the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) with scientific advice related to the management of seal populations. SMRU carries out surveys of harbour seals (usually during their annual moult in August) from a helicopter using a thermal imaging camera. The imager is sensitive to infrared radiation in the 8-14 µm wavebands, encompassing the electromagnetic emission range of mammals. The thermal imaging camera can rapidly detect seals hauled out of the water and is ideal for locating seals on rocky shores where they can be very difficult to see, enabling long sections of coastline to be surveyed in a relatively short time. The aims of these surveys were to determine the overall numbers of harbour seals and pups and the locations of their haul-out sites between Carlingford Lough and Belfast Lough, including Strangford Lough. The surveys provide additional baseline information on the number and distribution of harbour and grey seals both inside and outside Strangford Lough, complementing the monthly boat surveys carried out inside Strangford Lough by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and National Trust (NT) staff. This series contains the 2009 and 2010 survey reports.
Marine Current Turbines Limited
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Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 6657 |
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. | 2002-2010, SMRU Ltd., SeaGen Strangford Lough, Helicopter Seal Surveys along the Northern Ireland Coast |
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. | 387902da-0ddb-4d24-bdb3-38e5c07a0d61 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | SL_1 |
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 | 2002-08-15 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2010-08-20 |
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. | The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) undertakes routine surveys of harbour and grey seals around Scotland and part of England. The surveys provide the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with information required to fulfil its statutory obligation under the Conservation of Seals Act, 1970, to provide the Scottish Government and the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) with scientific advice related to the management of seal populations. SMRU carries out surveys of harbour seals (usually during their annual moult in August) from a helicopter using a thermal imaging camera. The imager is sensitive to infrared radiation in the 8-14 µm wavebands, encompassing the electromagnetic emission range of mammals. The thermal imaging camera can rapidly detect seals hauled out of the water and is ideal for locating seals on rocky shores where they can be very difficult to see, enabling long sections of coastline to be surveyed in a relatively short time. The aims of these surveys were to determine the overall numbers of harbour seals and pups and the locations of their haul-out sites between Carlingford Lough and Belfast Lough, including Strangford Lough. The surveys provide additional baseline information on the number and distribution of harbour and grey seals both inside and outside Strangford Lough, complementing the monthly boat surveys carried out inside Strangford Lough by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and National Trust (NT) staff. This series contains the 2009 and 2010 survey reports. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Metadata generated by The Crown Estate for the purposes of publishing on the Marine Data Exchange. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research and Development Activity | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Mammals | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | grey seals | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seal abundance | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seal behaviour | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Helicopter | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
Keyword title | MEDIN | |
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
Keyword title | MEDIN | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 54.725227 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -5.387884 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.981488 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -6.321722 |
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 | |
Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
City | London | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.thecrownestate.co.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 | Marine Current Turbines Limited | |
Phone | +44 (0)117 926 9906 | |
Delivery point | St Brandon’s House,, 27-29 Great George Street, | |
Postal code | BS1 5QT | |
City | Bristol | |
URL | http://www.marineturbines.com/ | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | SMRU Ltd | |
Phone | 01334 463446 | |
Delivery point | 5, Atholl Crescent | |
Postal code | EH3 8EJ | |
Administrative area | Edinburgh | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1921/summary |
Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | copyright |
20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use. |
21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
21 Conditions for access and use – Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource. | http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
Available data formats | ||
Data format name | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | |
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. | 2009-11-17 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2010-11-11 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2015-10-30 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Profile |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |
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