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Coastal and Marine Resource Atlas
A Tool for Maritime Contingency Planning and Response
Introduction
The Coastal and Marine Resource Atlas was commissioned by the project collaborators listed below in recognition of the need to update the 1990 Government and Industry sponsored coastal sensitivity maps produced by the Nature Conservancy Council. The Atlas contains environmental and other resource datasets covering the Great Britain coastline and marine areas of the UK Continental Shelf. The Atlas is designed as a web based tool to access a wide range of information on coastal and marine resources.
Warning:
- The Coastal and Marine Resource Atlas is NOT intended to substitute the provision of expert environmental advice during maritime and coastal incident response. The data has been compiled for the purposes of strategic environmental planning NOT incident operational response, unless this is in agreement with the statutory bodies responsible for providing environmental advice.
- In the UK environmental advice for maritime incident response is provided by a formal Environment Group as outlined in the National Contingency Plan for Marine Pollution from Shipping and Offshore Installations (NCP) and detailed in the MCA STOp notice: Maritime Pollution Response in the UK, the Environment Group
- Data has been provided by a broad range of suppliers in a variety of formats, some of which are not ideally displayed in a GIS format due to the method of collection or the data formats used. It is important that users view the metadata associated with datasets to fully understand any limitations of the data provided.
Project Collaborators
This Atlas is the product of a project managed and collaboratively funded by:
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Scottish Executive (SE)
- Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
- Energy Institute (EI)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
- Environment Agency (EA)
- English Nature (EN)
- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Hampshire County Council (HCC)
- Essex County Council (ECC)
- Kent County Council (KCC)
- British Geological Survey (BGS)
Dataset Quality and System Functionality
All Atlas datasets were compiled from a range of sources in 2005 - users should refer to the metadata files for specific details. The project collaborators have made best efforts to check functionality of the system and the accuracy of the data across the layers. Nevertheless there may be issues of functionality and accuracy which may arise as the system beds in and is used by a range of stakeholders.
Please consider this as a living resource which will be updated over time as necessary. Please note that although the website is updated monthly not all datasets are updated each month. Some datasets will clearly require more frequent updates than others and all will be dependant on data availability and format. MAGIC will manage and distribute the data on behalf of the project partnership.
Further Details
To view the Final Report click on this link. Further details about the project can be viewed on the DEFRA Science and Research Website at: http://www2.defra.gov.uk/research/project_data/More.asp?I=ME1302&M=KWS&V=me1302&SCOPE=0.
To view the Coastal and Marine Resource Atlas either click on this link or go to the MAGIC Interactive Map Launch Page. A tutorial is available to help users gain familiarity with the Coastal and Marine Resource Atlas in MAGIC. Please click this link to access the tutorial.
Your Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the Atlas particularly in terms of ease of use, datasets contained and the accuracy / presentation of those datasets. Please let us know and we can then take your comments into account when considering future revisions.
Point of Contact
support.magic@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Download the MAGIC Newsletter - September 2006