22ad5ddf-967d-4ce7-9933-f7ac89e0b638 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T10:40:45.752647Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 Risk of collision with whales in Europe Seas, Jun. 2020 2019-11-01 creation 2020-06-16 publication 01.00 eea_r_3035_1_km_risk-collision_p_2019_v01_r00 DAT-252-en The raster dataset represents the risk of collision of whales with vessels in Europe Seas. The most vulnerable species from ship strikes are cetaceans and turtles, since they go to the surface to breathe. On the other hand, their migration routes can overlap with shipping lanes. The collisions can produce the death or injury of the animals, and are an important threat for the conservation of these species. The dataset has been prepared in the context of the development of the first European Maritime Transport Environmental Report (EMSA-EEA report, 2021: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/maritime-transport). 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Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). grid 0.5 1 environment oceans -82.381726 92.78451 19.203575 84.922622 2019-10-01 2019-10-31 GeoTIFF https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_risk-collision_p_2019_v01_r00/Risk_of_WhaleShip_collision_ShippingLnTransformed.tif EEA:FOLDERPATH https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/22ad5ddf-967d-4ce7-9933-f7ac89e0b638 WWW:URL Direct download https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/Risk_of_collision_with_whales/MapServer ESRI:REST https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Risk_of_collision_with_whales/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/maritime-transport WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2021 Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification The risk of collision with whales was created using the EMODnet Human Activities Vessel Density Map 2017, considering all ships, and taking the year average value, together with expert reviewed whale distribution models from AQUAMAPS, version 10/2019 (https://www.aquamaps.org/) for whales that are regarded as having a risk of colliding with ships. Regarding the EMODnet vessel density raster, values over 100 were truncated to 100 to remove high value cells due to ships idling in ports or anchoring sites with their AIS transponders turned on. Distribution model values for blue whale, sei whale, humpback whale, sperm whale, fin whale and northern right whale were summed per 0.5-degree c-squares. The northern right whale model only describes the range of the western population of this species, since the eastern population is probably almost extinct. Thus, the northern right whale model only partly overlaps with the EEA area on interest. Lastly, the summed distribution models were multiplied with the truncated EMODnet vessel density data, which were log transformed (ln+1).