f15808728609e87a6c628c767ce4502c English series Gregor Calderwood Total Exploration and Production UK Limited +44 (0) 20 7416 4200 +44 (0) 20 7416 4497 TOTAL Holdings UK Limited 33 Cavendish Square London W1G 0PW gregor.calderwood@external.totalenergies.com pointOfContact 2024-07-26 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 2023, Anatec, Outer Dowsing, ORCP, Marine Traffic and AIS Survey, Summer 2023-08-01 publication 2023-08-01 revision MDE-TCE-181-4015 This report presents analysis of the summer 2023 vessel-based traffic survey which has been undertaken from the survey vessel Karima between the 14th and 28th June 2023. The data was gathered for a study area surrounding the search area for the proposed Reactive Compensation Station (RCS) (hereafter the Search Area) for the proposed Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm (OWF). The primary objective of the survey was to identify and validate the routeing of vessels and the level of vessel activity within a 5 nautical mile (nm) buffer (the Study Area) around the Search Area. This was achieved by recording, in real time, the positions of vessels within range of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver and Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA), supplemented by observation of vessels within visual range to obtain information on vessel identity, type and size where the information was not available from AIS. This survey supplements a previous survey undertaken in January 2023 to ensure full compliance with Marine Guidance Note (MGN) 654 (Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), 2021), which requires a minimum of 28 days seasonally-weighted data comprising AIS, Radio Detection and Ranging (Radar) and visual observations. Data Manager Anatec DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Data Manager dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk custodian notPlanned Database Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Transport networks GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Transport activity SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Transportation BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2013-01-31 creation https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use otherRestrictions Publicly Available English transportation Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Southern North Sea SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision unknown 0.3116 0.9564 53.1610 53.4404 2023-06-14 2023-06-28 The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk distributor https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/181/4015 A link to the web service or dataset series MMO data guideline for Automatic Identification system (AIS) data 2020-01-14 publication See the referenced specification true AIS Tracker 8