Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019
A seabird survey during the annual Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS), running from 13th of June to 4th of July and the 4th to 24th July 2019.
A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird survey team with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations and oceanographic sampling stations. Survey transects were undertaken at speeds of 5-10 knots, with fishing activity being conducted at speeds of 2-3 knots. The seabird observer’s survey effort was maximized and optimized during periods of sea state less than or equal to sea state 6 and with visibility of greater than 300m. A total of 225 hours and 40 minutes of survey effort was conducted over the course of the WESPAS 2019 survey, 125 hours and 3 minutes of survey effort was conducted on Leg 1, while 100 hours and 37 minutes of survey effort was conducted on Leg 2 of the survey. In total, 187 hours and 36 minutes of survey effort were conducted using a line transect methodology, while 38 hours and 4 minutes of effort were conducted using the point sampling methodology.
A total of 4528 seabird sightings were recorded throughout the survey, totalling 24866 individuals, with flock size ranging from 1 up to 2000 for some species. In total, 7074 seabirds were recorded as ‘in-transect’ during line transect survey effort. A total of 25 species of seabird were encountered during the survey. A further 23 sightings of terrestrial birds were also recorded, comprising of 56 individuals belonging to 10 species’.
Simple
- Alternate title
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2019 Seabird monitoring WESPAS
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-06-01
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019
- Purpose
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To collect data on birds at sea during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3
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biota, biodiversity, animal population, bird
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, bird, Birds Directive, biodiversity
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
- Use limitation
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2022-06-01
- End date
- 2022-07-01
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
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4326
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri shapefile
v10+
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name zip
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/WPAS19.zip
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Provide Spatial Data Theme keyword
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-06-15
- Explanation
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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
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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
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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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
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- No
- Statement
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Cybertracker was used to record all positional, environmental and sightings data. Using a portable GPS receiver with USB connection, the Cybertracker software automatically recorded the ships position directly into a Microsoft Access database every 5 seconds.
Environmental data was regularly recorded using Cybertracker, including at the start of each seabird survey transect, and included data such as; wind speed, wind direction, sea state, swell, visibility, cloud cover and precipitation. The data was time stamped with GPS data by Cybertracker and saved in the Access database. If environmental conditions changed at any point, the seabird observer recorded an environmental update of the above listed data. Each line transect was assigned a unique transect
number, and a new transect was started anytime the vessel activity changed (i.e. changing from on-transect to inter-transect).
Metadata
- File identifier
- 61ce24a7-75b6-4968-ab0a-263d7dd5ef8a XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-11-16T17:00:21
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Author
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