Identification

Title

Marine Habitats and Species Open Data

Alternative title(s)

Marine Evidence Base Open Data

Abstract

This dataset contains a collation of marine habitat and species biotope records created during contracts commissioned by Natural England; collected by Defra and associated bodies/agencies; or provided by third parties that have allowed their data to be republished under the Open Government Licence (OGL). There are two datasets available for download: 'Marine Habitats and Species Open Data' and 'Marine Designated Site Features Open Data'. The dataset 'Marine Habitats Species Open Data' comprises eight sub-datasets: three point datasets and five polygonal. These represent all publicly available datasets of marine habitats and species held by Natural England. The dataset 'Marine Designated Site Features Open Data' is a subset of the habitat and species data, which shows habitats and species (feature) data only within the site in which they are legally designated. The datasets comprises 6 sub-datasets: one point dataset and five polygonal. Both datasets are provided as an ESRI File Geodatabase (GDB) and as an OGC GeoPackage (GPKG). Additionally, 'Marine Designated Site Features Open Data' is provided with an ESRI structured layer file (LYR). All dataset geometry has been validated using the ESRI validation method. It has not been validated using the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) validation method and therefore may not comply with the OGC specification. These datasets are available under the Open Government Licence (OGL).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/Natural_England/Hydrological_Marine/Marine/Marine_Evidence_Base_NE/Marine+Designated+Site+Features+ESRI+File+GDB.zip

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Marine Designated Site Features ESRI File GDB download

description: Marine Designated Site Features ESRI File GDB download

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/Natural_England/Hydrological_Marine/Marine/Marine_Evidence_Base_NE/Marine+Designated+Site+Features+GeoPackage.zip

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Marine Designated Site Features GeoPackage download

description: Marine Designated Site Features GeoPackage download

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/Natural_England/Hydrological_Marine/Marine/Marine_Evidence_Base_NE/Marine+Habitats+and+Species+ESRI+File+GDB.zip

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Marine Habitats and Species ESRI File GDB download

description: Marine Habitats and Species ESRI File GDB download

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/Natural_England/Hydrological_Marine/Marine/Marine_Evidence_Base_NE/Marine+Habitats+and+Species+GeoPackage.zip

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Marine Habitats and Species GeoPackage download

description: Marine Habitats and Species GeoPackage download

Unique resource identifier

code

f7932e02-0396-41dc-8106-f7dcd5e539d3

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Geographic Information

Marine

Natural England

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

Species distribution

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-07-25

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7.05

East bounding longitude

2.07

North bounding latitude

55.81

South bounding latitude

49.86

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

GBR

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1968-08-28

End position

2021-06-16

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-02-10

date type

revision

effective date

2021-06-16

Frequency of update

biannually

Quality and validity

Lineage

This dataset contains records that qualify as open and therefore can be published under the Open Government Licence (OGL). These records are extracted from the Natural England Marine Evidence Base (MEB) which is an internal collated evidence base that is used for Marine Protected Area (MPA) designation, monitoring and condition reporting. This extraction is based on the dataset identifier, access limitations and data owner as defined within the Marine Metadatabase to ensure that only open datasets are included in the open version. The outputs include broad-scale habitat polygons and points; and habitats of conservation interest polygons derived from the broad-scale habitat polygons.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | GeoPackage (GPKG)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

description: Natural England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-24

Metadata language