Risk of collision with whales in Europe Seas, Jun. 2020

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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Date (Creation)
2019-11-01
Date (Publication)
2020-06-16
Edition
01.00
Identifier
eea_r_3035_1_km_risk-collision_p_2019_v01_r00
Identifier
DAT-252-en
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

No information provided.
Custodian
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Keywords
Keywords
GEMET
  • marine ecosystem
  • risk
  • environment
  • ship
  • whale
  • marine environment
  • sea
  • ocean
  • aquatic environment
  • environmental quality
  • marine biology
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
  • Iceland Sea
  • Kattegat
  • English Channel
  • Norwegian Sea
  • North Sea
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Celtic Sea
  • Barents Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Ionian Sea
  • Black Sea
Spatial scope
  • European
EEA Management Plan
  • 2021 1.2.5
EEA topics
  • Biodiversity
  • Seas and coasts
  • Nature protection and restoration
  • Transport and mobility
Sous-regions marines
  • /Métropole
  • /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord
  • /Métropole/Mers Celtiques
  • /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne
  • /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Etat du Milieu/Espèces
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Etat du Milieu/Habitats
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
  • /Données dérivées/Produits composites
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
0.5  deg
Distance
1  km
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2019-10-01
End date
2019-10-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource
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 )
OnLine resource
Direct download ( WWW:URL )
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/Risk_of_collision_with_whales/MapServer ( ESRI:REST )
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/Risk_of_collision_with_whales/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS ( OGC:WMS )
OnLine resource
European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2021 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
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).
Source
File identifier
22ad5ddf-967d-4ce7-9933-f7ac89e0b638 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-03-05T13:36:27.878Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA Management Plan
2021 1.2.5
EEA topics
Biodiversity Nature protection and restoration Seas and coasts Transport and mobility
GEMET
aquatic environment environment environmental quality marine biology marine ecosystem marine environment ocean risk sea ship whale
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Species distribution
Spatial scope
European
Thématiques - SIMM
/Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports /Etat du Milieu/Espèces /Etat du Milieu/Habitats /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
/Données dérivées/Produits composites

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