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Harbour porpoise SACs survey, 2013

A visual and Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) survey of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) was carried out in 2013 at two Special Areas of Conservation (Rockabill to Dalkey Island SAC, Co Dublin and Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC, Co Cork) in order to derive local density and abundance estimates. Single platform line-transect surveys were carried out according to a standardised design on six days at each site between July and October 2013, and a towed hydrophone array was deployed during all surveys to collect ancillary passive acoustic data. Distance sampling was used to produce a detection function based on the observed distribution of harbour porpoise sightings. Abundance estimates were calculated using the day as the sample and the sighting as the observation (i) for all survey days with sufficient sightings and (ii) for each site overall using pooled survey effort and sightings information

Simple

Alternate title

2013 Harbour Porpoise SACs Survey

Date (Publication)
2022-07-06
Citation identifier
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / Harbour porpoise surveys in Rockabill to Dalkey Island SAC, 2021
Purpose

To derive local density and abundance estimates of cetaceans at two Special Areas of Conservation (Rockabill to Dalkey Island SAC, Co Dublin and Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC, Co Cork).

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

National Parks and Wildlife Service

datadelivery@housing.gov.ie

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Species distribution

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3

  • biota, biodiversity, marine fauna, cetacean

National Parks and Wildlife Service

  • National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, marine, mammal, biodiversity

ISO 3166

  • Ireland

Use limitation

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Use limitation

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
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S
E
W
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Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

Reference system identifier
https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326 / 4326

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format
Name Version

Esri shapefile

v10+

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

National Parks and Wildlife Service

datadelivery@housing.gov.ie.ie

Point of contact
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

zip

https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/HPRR13.zip

Dataset

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Provide Spatial Data Theme keyword

Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0

Date (Publication)
2011-06-15
Explanation

The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Alternate title

INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass
No
Statement

During each transect the position of the survey vessel was tracked continuously through a GPS receiver connected to a laptop computer while survey effort including environmental conditions (sea-state, wind strength and direction, glare, etc.) were recorded every 15 minutes using LOGGER software ( IFAW). When a sighting was made the position of the vessel was recorded immediately and the angle of the sighting from the track of the vessel and the estimated radial distance of the sighted animal(s) from the vessel were recorded. These data were communicated to the recorder in the wheelhouse via VHF radio. The angle was recorded to the nearest degree using an angle board attached to the vessel immediately in front of each observer. Accurate distance estimation is essential for distance sampling. Measuring sticks (Heinemann 1981) were made on each vessel by each primary observer to assist in distance estimation.



Some data was modified to comply with GDPR legislation and open data publication guidelines. The shapefile HPRR13_RWB_Survey_1.shp was created from data collected on 10th July 2013.

Metadata

File identifier
5257f225-c15c-4b7f-8d85-8051aaeecdb7 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-11-20T17:00:16
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile

Metadata standard version

1.2

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

National Parks and Wildlife Service

datadelivery@housing.gov.ie

Author
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3

biota, biodiversity, marine fauna, cetacean
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Species distribution
National Parks and Wildlife Service

National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, marine, mammal, biodiversity


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