101363db2eda1a627e5f88a080ea45d3 English dataset Tom Higginbottom Irish Sea Conservation Zones GIS Officer dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk pointOfContact 2019-10-04 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::32630 2011 Envirolink Northwest, Irish Sea, Shipping Densitiy Variation shipping_density_ISCZ Antecgrid 2009-07-31 publication ISCZ00000005 Envirolink Northwest (On behalf of ISCZ) commissioned Anatec UK Ltd. to estimate the shipping density variation within Irish Sea. The shipping data used in the report has been taken from Anatec's ShipRoutes database. Data Manager Antec (Aberdeen Office) DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Data Manager dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Data Manager Antec (Aberdeen Office) DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Data Manager dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Geographic Information System Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Land use GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Industrial activity SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Copyright otherRestrictions Restricted to SNCBs/DEFRA/MMO 1000 English planningCadastre Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Irish Sea -6.7449 -2.7149 51.8593 55.0404 2009-01-01 2009-07-31 This information was extracted from ESRIISO metadata (incorporating ISO and FGDC elements) using the EsriIsoToMedin xslt version 1.0;ISO Resource created in environment: Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.0 (Build 6002) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770 Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) Data Manager 01752 633102 01752 633291 Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor dataset ShipRoutes is a shipping route database developed by Anatec UK to assist in identifying shipping passing in proximity to proposed offshore developments such as oil and gas sites, wind farms and dredging areas The variation in shipping density by ship type and size has been estimated using a grid of cells covering the Irish Sea area of interest. The grid contained 2,145 cells with an average size of 5 kilometres (North/South) x 5 kilometres (East/West). Anatec's ship density model was then used to calculate the number of ships per year passing through each cell based on the ShipRoutes data. This number of ships was then divided by the cell area (approximately 25 km2) to obtain the ship density per km2.