Wight Broadscale, Annex 1 Reef survey 2006/7

Description

Broadscale EUNIS habitat map covering ~3,800 sq km lying >12 km off the Isle of Wight, to the UK/France median line. Aimed at identifying Annex I 'Rocky reef' habitats. Based on expert interpretation of multiple data sets including Benthic Terrain Modeller applied to full-coverage single-beam digital bathymetry (licensed from SeaZone), complementary Cefas acoustic surveys with directed ground truth sampling (video and still images), and the BGS seabed sediments chart modified according to the simplified 4-class Folk trigion used by MESH and EUNIS (Coarse, Mixed, Sand, Mud).

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  • eastern-channel

Topics

  • ENVI

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