European beach litter aggregated datasets 2001/2023 v2025
EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, ocean acidification, contaminants and litter. The chosen parameters are relevant for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), in particular for descriptors 5, 8, 9 and 10. The dataset contains standardized, harmonized and validated data collections from beach litter (monitoring and other sources).
Datasets concerning beach and seafloor litter data are loaded in a central database after a semi-automated validation phase. Once loaded, a data assessment is performed in order to check data consistency and potential errors are corrected thanks to a feedback loop with data originators.
For beach litter, the harmonized datasets contain all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on beach litter, including monitoring data, data from cleaning surveys and data from research. A relevant part of the monitoring data has been considered for assessment purposes by the European institutions and therefore is tagged as MSFD_monitoring. EMODnet beach litter data and databases are hosted and maintained by 'Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Division of Oceanography (OGS/NODC)' from Italy.
Data are formatted following Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data, which can be found at: https://doi.org/10.6092/15c0d34c-a01a-4091-91ac-7c4f561ab508
The updated vocabularies of admitted values are available at:
https://nodc.ogs.it/marinelitter/vocab
The European harmonized dataset is provided as csv format in two files, one containing the survey data and one containing the survey metadata. The dataset is available through direct download or through ERDDAP.
Simple
- Alternate title
- European_beach_litter_aggregated_datasets_ 2001/2023_v2025
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-11-04
- Edition
- 1.0
- Identifier
- 23f2c658-6880-4429-8809-07a512dc2b00
- Credit
- EMODnet Chemistry
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- Thèmes Sextant
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- /Human Activities/Pollution
- /Chemical Environment/Sediment
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Oceanographic geographical features
- Theme
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- EMODnet Chemistry
- Beach litter,
- Place
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- Coastal Area
- Keywords
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- Use limitation
- CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- unrestricted
- 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"
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- 9d46ea48-1af0-411d-90db-53b245ea0415
- Association Type
- Source
- Initiative Type
- Collection
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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- Source
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- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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- Association Type
- Source
- Initiative Type
- Collection
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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- Association Type
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- Initiative Type
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- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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- Source
- Initiative Type
- Collection
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- 1d1f4db3-4a8d-49dc-8dd7-148fa6ab8bf3
- Association Type
- Source
- Initiative Type
- Collection
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- eng
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Environment
- Description
- bounding box
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2023-12-24
Vertical extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Distribution format
-
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Comma-separated values
(
1.0
)
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Comma-separated values
(
1.0
)
- OnLine resource
- EMD_beachLitter_European_2025_unrestricted.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )
- OnLine resource
- Harmonization and data validation on litter aggregated datasets ( WWW:LINK )
- OnLine resource
-
ERDDAP Access Point
(
WWW:LINK
)
Extract data using ERDDAP
- OnLine resource
- Data Access and Citation (DOI) ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- 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
- 23f2c658-6880-4429-8809-07a512dc2b00 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-06T14:25:17.245479Z
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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