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Micro litter - Density per net normalized per m³ - Research and monitoring protocols 2016/2023 v2025

This visualization product displays the density of floating micro-litter per net normalized per m³ per year from research and monitoring protocols.

EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Before 2021, there was no coordinated effort at the regional or European scale for micro-litter. Given this situation, EMODnet Chemistry proposed to adopt the data gathering and data management approach as generally applied for marine data, i.e., populating metadata and data in the CDI Data Discovery and Access service using dedicated SeaDataNet data transport formats. EMODnet Chemistry is currently the official EU collector of micro-litter data from Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) National Monitoring activities (descriptor 10).

A series of specific standard vocabularies or standard terms related to micro-litter have been added to SeaDataNet NVS (NERC Vocabulary Server) Common Vocabularies to describe the micro-litter.

European micro-litter data are collected by the National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs). Micro-litter map products are generated from NODCs data after a test of the aggregated collection including data and data format checks and data harmonization.

A filter is applied to represent only micro-litter sampled according to research and monitoring protocols as MSFD monitoring.

Densities were calculated for each net using the following calculation:

Density (number of particles per m³) = Micro-litter count / Sampling effort (m³)

When the number of micro-litters was not filled, it was not possible to calculate the density.

Percentiles 50, 75, 95 & 99 have been calculated taking into account data for all years.

Warning: the absence of data on the map does not necessarily mean that they do not exist, but that no information has been entered in the National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) for this area.

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Alternate title
mlf_density_nb_m3_monitoring
Date (Creation)
2025-02-07
Edition
1.0
Identifier
DOI:10.13120/d595fa79-d459-4ee2-ac85-34a051a8c054
Credit
EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact

No information provided.
Resource provider
  IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA
IFREMER Centre de Bretagne ZI Pointe du diable CS 10070 , PLOUZANE , 29280 , France
+33 (0)2 98.22.49.16
+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/
Resource provider
  Ifremer / VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)
Rue de l'Ile d'Yeu BP 1105 , NANTES CEDEX 03 , 44311 , France
+33 (02 40.37.40.00
+33 (0)2 40.37.40.01
https://wwz.ifremer.fr/Recherche-Technologie/Departements-scientifiques/Departement-Oceanographie-et-Dynamique-des-Ecosystemes/VIGIES
Resource provider
  National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography
Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/c , Sgonico (Trieste) , 34010 , Italy
http://www.ogs.trieste.it/
Custodian
  Ifremer, VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)
Rue de l'Ile d'Yeu BP 1105 , NANTES CEDEX 03 , 44311 , France
+33 (02 40.37.40.00
+33 (0)2 40.37.40.01
https://wwz.ifremer.fr/Recherche/Departements-scientifiques/Departement-Oceanographie-et-Dynamique-des-Ecosystemes/VIGIES
Custodian
  IFREMER, SISMER, Scientific Information Systems for the SEA
IFREMER Centre de Bretagne ZI Pointe du diable CS 10070 , PLOUZANE , 29280 , France
+33 (0)2 98.22.49.16
+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
http://data.ifremer.fr/SISMER
Originator
  Department of Marine Systems at Tallinn University of Technology
MSI, Akadeemia tee 15a , Tallinn , 12618 , Estonia
+372 6204300
https://www.taltech.ee/meresusteemide-instituut
Originator
  Finnish Environment Institute
Latokartanonkaari 11 , Helsinki , 00790 , Finland
+358295 251 000
+358954902190
https://www.syke.fi/en-US
Originator
  Kristineberg Marine Research Station
Kristineberg 566 , Fiskebäckskil , SE-451 78 , Sweden
+46-(0)31-786 00 00
+46-(0)523-18 502
Thèmes Sextant
  • /Human Activities/Pollution
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)
  • Micro-litter in water bodies
SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Asian mainland
  • Lyme Bay
  • Celtic Sea
  • Dover Strait
  • English Channel
  • Central Baltic Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Sound Sea
  • Balearic Sea
  • Gulf of Finland
  • Ionian Sea
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin
  • Gulf of Riga
Theme
  • EMODnet Chemistry
Matrix Categories
  • water body
EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups
  • Marine litter
Mission Atlantic - Resources
  • Data
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies
  • Celtic Seas
Mission Atlantic - Work Package
  • WP4 Benthic Mapping
Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters
  • /Environment/Pollution
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)
  • Spatial data products
Ocean Hackathon - City and challenge
  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL02
  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL04
  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL06
  • /Bournemouth/BOR01
  • /Concepción/CON06
  • /Kuala Lumpur/KUL08
  • /La Rochelle/LAR01
  • /Peniche/PEN01
Use limitation
CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
unrestricted
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Usage is subject to mandatory citation: "This resource was generated in the framework of EMODnet Chemistry, under the support of DG MARE Call for Tender EASME/EMFF/2018/1.3.1.8 - lot4."
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
eng
Description
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Begin date
2016-04-21T17:53:00
End date
2023-06-03T19:35:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value
-0.5
Maximum value
0.0
Vertical CRS
  • http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/5714/
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Geometric object type
Point
Distribution format
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OnLine resource
Guidelines and formats for gathering micro-litter data ( WWW:LINK )

Guidelines and formats for gathering micro-litter data

OnLine resource
Description of the layer's fields ( WWW:LINK )

Description of the layer's fields

OnLine resource
Direct Download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )

Direct Download

OnLine resource
EMODnet Map Viewer ( WWW:LINK )

EMODnet Map Viewer

OnLine resource
mlf_density_nb_m3_monitoring ( OGC:WMS )

Micro litter - Research and monitoring protocols - Density per net normalized per m³

OnLine resource
Visualization products for floating micro-litter data ( WWW:LINK )

Methodologies applied to create the maps

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )

Data Access and Citation

Hierarchy level
Series

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://cdi-chemistry.seadatanet.org/search
File identifier
d595fa79-d459-4ee2-ac85-34a051a8c054 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Series
Hierarchy level name
Product record
Date stamp
2025-04-25T12:52:21.96993Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  EMODnet Chemistry -
http://www.emodnet.eu/chemistry
 
 

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Keywords

EMODnet Chemistry
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features
Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters
/Environment/Pollution
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies
Celtic Seas
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)
Spatial data products
Mission Atlantic - Resources
Data
Mission Atlantic - Work Package
WP4 Benthic Mapping
Thèmes Sextant
/Human Activities/Pollution

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