Proiecte

The Seabed Habitats project activities will consist of building a habitat support layer, modelled from multiple databases. Analyses will identify biologically relevant threshold values for the variables used to define the boundaries between classes. A new model, required to produce a large-scale EUNIS habitat map at a scale of 1:100,000 or larger, will extend the spatial coverage to include the Barents Sea and other areas where input data coverage allows.

In the framework of the Phase 3 extension (2019-2021), the EUSeaMap platform will be updated and transposed into new classifications, namely EUNIS 2019, HELCOM HUB (in the Baltic Sea), and the revised classification of Mediterranean habitat types will be also implemented. The map collection will be expanded and used to produce several new composite data products. The first phase of transposition of EUNIS 2007 habitat maps into EUNIS 2019 will also be completed.

The overall objective of this project is to further develop an operational service whereby the marine data and data products built according to common standards can be found, viewed and downloaded in a free and unrestricted way of use.

In the fourth phase (2021–2023), the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project will expand its area of investigation into two new regions: the Caspian Sea and some European Caribbean territories. In this phase, updated versions of the large-scale EMODnet map of marine bental habitats for Europe (EUSEaMap) will be delivered, together with new products for coastal wetlands and essential fish habitats.

The general objective of the project is to contribute to the EMODnet operational service by maintaining and enhancing availability and services for the parameters under their responsibility, through the EMODnet Central Portal.

The general objective of the project is to contribute to the EMODnet operational service by maintaining and enhancing availability and services for the parameters under their responsibility, through the EMODnet Central Portal.

The general objective of the project is to contribute to the EMODnet operational service by maintaining and enhancing availability and services for the parameters under their responsibility, through the EMODnet Central Portal.

The general objective of the project is to contribute to the EMODnet operational service by maintaining and enhancing availability and services for the parameters under their responsibility, through the EMODnet Central Portal.

The project aims to support coherent maritime spatial planning (MSP) in Bulgaria and Romania within the framework of the MSP Directive 2014/89/EU, as well as to establish a lasting mechanism for cross-border cooperation in the Black Sea basin in the field of MSP.

EMODnet-Geology project is one of seven projects that bring together information on geology, chemistry, biology, physics, bathymetry, seabed habitats and human activities in the European marine environment. Each project brings together marine data, data products and metadata from a wide range of sources. Within the EMODnet Geology project, the information made available to the network is mainly provided by the project partners, but other organisations also contribute to the geological mapping objectives in many of the participating countries.

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is funded by the European Union under Regulation (EU) No 508/15.05.2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.

The EMODnet-Bathymetry Portal is being developed within the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). The project provides services for discovering and requesting access to the bathymetric data (survey datasets and composite DTMs) that are managed by a growing number of data providers.

The EUSeaMap2 project (Physical Habitat Map of European Seas) aimed to expand the work carried out in the EUSeaMap preparatory phase 1, to evolve from a prototype to an operational service, and to provide full coverage of a large-scale map of European sea basins. Habitat maps contain essential information about the seabed, necessary for the sustainable management and development of the economic potential of European sea basins. European habitat maps serve to design ecologically coherent networks of marine protected areas, to model species distribution, to support benthic habitat monitoring programmes and to support maritime spatial planning. One way to save time and money, necessary for a wider coverage of benthic habitats, is to use low-resolution maps and predictive models, which can be generated by combining a series of proxy measurements (water depth, sediment type and light intensity) with statistical analysis and geographic information system modelling. The project consortium is committed to developing habitat maps and facilitating easier public access to the data.

The EUSeaMap3 project (Operation, development and maintenance of the European Seabed Habitats Observation and Data Network – EMODNET Lot 2) aimed at further developing an operational service where marine data on seabed habitats are interoperable and available. The project involved the development of data products, thus providing (free and open) access to the observations on which these data products were built. EUSeaMap3 produced new information on the hydrographic features of European seas, and the collection of individual species and habitat models was carried out by universities and research institutes. Following the implementation, the project had the following results: data on habitats in European seas, products describing the marine environment, such as salinity, wave exposure and optical properties of water, 300,000 habitat inventory stations in European sea areas, over 800 maps describing seabed habitats, over 50 seabed habitat models collected, EOV (Essential Ocean Variables) products – seaweed, macro-algae, corals, interactive maps of seabed habitats and final project products;

The fifth phase of the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project will continue the work on developing Europe’s only habitat map library; create new composite data products showing the extent and distribution of vulnerable marine ecosystems and potentially degraded habitats in and around Europe; update the EMODnet large-scale benthic habitat maps for Europe (EUSeaMap); collaborate with Regional Sea Conventions (RSCs) and ICES Working Groups to provide habitat mapping products for their reporting and monitoring requirements; and maintain and improve common methods of accessing data held in repositories.

During Phase 3, EMODnet Seabed habitats began collecting and providing habitat point data and meta-data. The consortium initially focused its efforts on designing a data scheme that would record all the necessary information and would be compatible with existing infrastructure for point data of species (Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) and EMODnet Biology). This is vital given that a point-by-point observation of a habitat is likely to be coupled with observations of species from the same record. This project aims to include observations on the presence of habitat (where it exists) whenever data holders upload new observations of the presence of species to EurOBIS. This requires broad and sustained communication about the standards we have already developed and providing incentives for data owners to include this additional information in their documents.