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Micro litter - Size of litter per net - Research and monitoring protocols 2011/2023 v2025

This visualization product displays the size of litter in percent per net 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.

To calculate percentages for each size, formula applied is:

Size (%) = (∑number of particles of each size)*100 / (∑number of particles of all size)

When the number of microlitters was not filled or was equal to zero, it was not possible to calculate the percentage.

Standard vocabularies for microliter sizes are taken from Seadatanet's H03 library (https://vocab.seadatanet.org/v_bodc_vocab_v2/search.asp?lib=H03 ). Different protocols with different degrees of precision were used to classify the sampled micro-litters. Consequently, on the map, the distribution of micro-litter in the size classes depends on the protocol applied during the survey.

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_by_size_monitoring
Date (Creation)
2025-02-07T00:00:00+01:00
Edition
1.0
Identifier
DOI:10.13120/e9a2640f-39a2-4676-bc56-f0b41e713af0
Credit
EMODnet Chemistry

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+33 (0)2 98.22.49.16
+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/
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  Ifremer, VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)
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IFREMER Centre de Bretagne ZI Pointe du diable CS 10070 , PLOUZANE , 29280 , France
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+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
http://data.ifremer.fr/SISMER
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  ARPA Veneto, Osservatorio Regionale Acque
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  Department of Marine Systems at Tallinn University of Technology
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  Finnish Environment Institute
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  Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography

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  Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia
Dunajska 156 , Ljubljana , 1000 , Slovenia
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  Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University
P.O.Box 28 , Erdemli , 33731 , Turkey
+90 (324) 5212406
+90 (324) 5212327
http://ims.metu.edu.tr/
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  Istanbul University, Institute of Marine Science and Management

Müsküle Sok. No. 1

Vefa

, Istanbul , 34470 , Turkey
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  Kristineberg Marine Research Station
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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
  • Balearic Sea
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin
  • Ionian Sea
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Sound Sea
  • Lyme Bay
  • Celtic Sea
  • Central Baltic Sea
  • Gulf of Finland
  • English Channel
  • Gulf of Riga
  • Dover Strait
  • Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin
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/2020/3.1.11/European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Lot 5 - Chemistry".
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
eng
Topic category
  • Oceans
Description
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Begin date
2021-06-14T10:48:00
End date
2023-07-23T08:21:00

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_by_size_monitoring ( OGC:WMS )

Micro litter - Research and monitoring protocols - Size of litter per net

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
e9a2640f-39a2-4676-bc56-f0b41e713af0 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Series
Hierarchy level name
Product record
Date stamp
2025-04-28T09:56:54.044866Z
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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