Wight Finescale, Annex 1 Reef survey 2006/7
Description
Finescale EUNIS habitat map covering ~50 sq km lying SSW of the Isle of Wight, half way between the UK 12 NM line and the UK/France median line. Aimed at provifiding fine, nested retail within a broader study identifying Annex I ‘Rocky reef’ habitats. Based on expert interpretation of 100 % multibeam coverage supported by directed ground truth sampling (video and still images), Benthic Terrain Modeller and QTC View analysis applied to single-beam digital Bathymetry (licensed from SeaZone), 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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