2007 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Luce Bay (Scotland) littoral broad-scale mapping survey

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• Last updated: 02 January 2008
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Summary

Luce Bay and Sands SAC is a broad, shallow embayment on the south-west coast of Scotland. The site has been designated for four qualifying Annex I habitat types: 'Large shallow inlets and bays', 'Sandbanks which are slightly covered by seawater at all times', 'Intertidal mudflats and sandflats' and 'Reefs'. The aim of this project was to derive broadscale maps for the intertidal and subtidal Annex 1 habitats within the SAC. Because of the size of Luce Bay, it was decided that remote sensing supported by ground truthing of the data would be the most cost-effective way of mapping the habitats within the site. The intertidal would be surveyed using satellite imaging and the sublittoral environment would be surveyed using acoustic survey (sublittoral data is contained in a different Marine Recorder record - File identifier: 3f7776fb409ec2edb3c1a7eec8cb6a4f). Ground truthing would be undertaken by direct observation, where access allowed, in the intertidal.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-04-30
• Access contraints: no restrictions to public access
• Harvest GUID: 22d4fdc4563778011d3dde9b0a4d2ea1
• Extent: Latitude: 54.9026° to 54.6122°
• Extent: Longitude: -4.9772° to -4.3383°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2008-01-02 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data (originator); Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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Not for navigational use; SNH copyright data which is available for re-use under government licence terms: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/