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Cetacean Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019

The Western European Shelf Passive Acoustic Survey is an acoustic survey undertaken by the Fisheries Ecosystems Advisory Services (FEAS) Department of the Marine Institute of Ireland. The WESPAS provides a unique opportunity for surveillance of the summer distribution of cetaceans in shelf water habitats along Ireland’s Atlantic margins which can be difficult to reach by other means.

Simple

Alternate title

2019 Cetacean Data WESPAS

Date (Publication)
2022-05-31
Citation identifier
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / Cetacean Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019
Purpose

To monitor cetaceans and other marine megafauna as part of the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic survey June to July 2019. The WESPAS survey provides an excellent opportunity to monitor the summer distribution of cetaceans in shelf water habitats along Ireland’s Atlantic margins which can be difficult to reach by other means.

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
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Begin date
2019-06-13
End date
2019-07-10

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/WPAS19_01_cetacean.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

The Cybertracker ( http://www.cybertracker.org/) data collection software package (Version 3.501) was used to collect all positional, environmental and sightings data, and save it to a Microsoft Access database. Positional data was collected using a portable GPS receiver with a USB connection and recorded every 5 seconds.

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). Each subsequent sighting was also assigned to this unique transect number.

Metadata

File identifier
d6b76ae1-f75b-4678-8e11-fab0584f8b4a XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-11-16T17:54:52
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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