Designated Site Features Open Data
Marine Evidence Base Open Data
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).
dataset
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
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: Marine Designated Site Features GeoPackage download
description: Marine Designated Site Features GeoPackage download
f7932e02-0396-41dc-8106-f7dcd5e539d3
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
environment
biota
OpenData
Geographic Information
Marine
Natural England
Habitats and biotopes
Species distribution
publication
2018-07-25
-6.55
3.5
55.94
49.79
GBR
1968-08-28
2021-06-16
creation
2014-10-30
revision
2021-07-14
biannually
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. Point data is added cumulatively to the evidence base; polygonal data is 'stacked' using the MESH confidence score to ensure that only one polygonal record is present at any single location and that this record has the highest confidence score. This geoprocessing means that full raw datasets may not be included in the evidence base, and records that are included may be subject to clipping to facilitate other records from another raw dataset of a higher confidence score.
publication
2010-12-08
0
See the referenced specification
Open format | GeoPackage (GPKG)
Open Government Licence
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Natural England
data.services@naturalengland.org.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england
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pointOfContact
Natural England
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pointOfContact
2021-07-26