c9419f656dd4822a4aebd59b6449b1e6 English dataset Natural England Natural England Enquiries Service +44 (0)300 060 3900 +44 (0)300 060 2356 Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk pointOfContact 2022-12-01 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 2011 Natural England Isles of Scilly Seagrass Mapping GB100212 NERC_DDC 2011-08-09 publication GB100212 A Natural England commissioned study conducted by MarLin at the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, in order to utilise aerial surveys to accurately map the current extent of Seagrass Zostera marina in the Isles of Scilly. The aim was to integrate aerial survey and GIS methods with historic information, contextual information and groundtruthing to produce and upto date accurate map showing the extent of Seagrass in the Isles of Scilly. Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Data Manager Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Natural England Natural England Enquiries Service +44 (0)300 060 3900 +44 (0)300 060 2356 Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk custodian notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network NDGO0005 Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Marine UNESCO 2003-01-01 creation Macroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Species Distribution INSPIRE 2017-05-12 creation http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/open-government-licence-NE-OS_tcm6-30743.pdf otherRestrictions No restrictions to public access English biota -6.3569 -6.2563 49.9101 49.9771 2009-06-01 2009-09-01 Natural England Natural England Enquiries Service +44 (0)300 060 3900 +44 (0)300 060 2356 Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk distributor http://www.searchmesh.net/ A link to the web service or dataset dataset The survey comprised of historic data mining, aerial photograph image analysis and ground truthing. Ground truthing for presence or absence was carried out by means of visual observations; in shallow water less than 3m by looking over the side of the vessel, and for water depths greater than 3m by drop down video This data is reported as M_00329 in the Natural England Marine Conservation Zone Evidence Dataset. If any sensitive species or biotope records are present within this dataset, they will have been removed. If you wish to request access to sensitive species records, please contact the metadata contact. The UK Sensitive Species list has been agreed by UK statutory bodies and relevant experts. It can be viewed here https://docs.nbnatlas.org/sensitive-species-list/. Please note sensitive species lists can vary across the UK.