4ab2fb42-ba5b-418d-9675-a642edfaca70 Vaz Sandrine IFREMER Station de Sète - Avenue Jean Monnet - CS 30171 - 34203 Sète Cedex Sete France Sandrine.Vaz@ifremer.fr author Combes Magali IFREMER magali.combes@ifremer.fr author 2025-05-15T22:16:14.607163Z ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT 1.0 2 273 25 491 25 false +proj=aea +lat_1=43 +lat_2=62 +lat_0=30 +lon_0=-30 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0 Deep-sea mining activities on the North Atlantic 2019-08-14 publication FR-330-715-368-00032-IFR_MARBEC_ATLAS_Mining DOI:10.12770/4ab2fb42-ba5b-418d-9675-a642edfaca70 Presence of deep-sea mining exploration zones on the North Atlantic (18°N to 76°N and 36°E to 98°W). These areas correspond to the three polymetallic sulphides exploration contracts on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, attributed to Poland, France and Russia. Each of the three contract areas is divided into 100 squares of 10km by 10km. Source polygons originated from the International Seabed Authority. The presence (value=1) of deep-sea mining was extracted in 25km * 25km gridsquares. This dataset was built to feed a basin-wide spatial conservation planning exercise, targeting the deep sea of the North Atlantic. The goal of this approach was to identify conservation priority areas for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and deep fish species, based on the distribution of species and habitats, human activities and current spatial management. Horizon 2020 ATLAS project (EU) Combes Magali IFREMER magali.combes@ifremer.fr author Vaz Sandrine IFREMER Station de Sète - Avenue Jean Monnet - CS 30171 - 34203 Sète Cedex Sete France Sandrine.Vaz@ifremer.fr author IFREMER sismer@ifremer.fr publisher https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4ab2fb42-ba5b-418d-9675-a642edfaca70/attachments/mining_map.png /Human Activities/Various Thèmes Sextant 2019-01-28 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.sextant-theme Mineral resources GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2018-07-27 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons - Attribution, Pas d’utilisation commerciale, Partage dans les mêmes conditions) grid 25 utf8 oceans environment -98.00 36.00 18.00 76.00 https://sextant.ifremer.fr/services/wms/atlas_eu OGC:WMS IFR_MARBEC_ATLAS_MINING_NORTHATL Deep-sea mining exploration - North Atlantic COPYFILE IFR_MARBEC_ATLAS_MINING_NORTHATL Deep-sea mining exploration - North Atlantic https://www.isa.org.jm/maps WWW:LINK International Seabed Authority (2019) Polymetallic Sulphides/Mid Atlantic Ridge. https://www.isa.org.jm/maps https://doi.org/10.12770/4ab2fb42-ba5b-418d-9675-a642edfaca70 DOI DOI of the dataset DOI of the dataset RÈGLEMENT (UE) N o 1089/2010 DE LA COMMISSION du 23 novembre 2010 portant modalités d'application de la directive 2007/2/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil en ce qui concerne l'interopérabilité des séries et des services de données géographiques 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification Source polygons data originated from the International Seabed Authority (ISA). The data was extracted in 25km * 25 km gridsquares of the raster grid used for the ATLAS spatial prioritization. Source data reference: International Seabed Authority (2019). Polymetallic Sulphides/Mid Atlantic Ridge. https://www.isa.org.jm/maps ISA attributed three polymetallic sulphides exploration contracts on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, to Poland (2018 to 2033), France (2014 to 2029) and Russia (2012 to 2027) (https://www.isa.org.jm/maps). Each of the three contract areas is divided into 100 squares of 10km by 10km. Initial dataset Using the R environment, the rasterize function was used to extract the presence mining in 25km *25km gridsquares. Values of output raster cells where no exploration contracts were present were set to 0, while values of cells out of the study zone were set to NA. The Russian contract had 68 exploration squares located south of the study zone, thus only 232 squares out of 300 are included. extraction of features on the ATLAS grid