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
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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
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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
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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, marine fauna, cetacean
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, marine, mammal, 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
- 2019-06-13
- End date
- 2019-07-10
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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https://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_01_cetacean.zip Dataset
- 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
- Alternate title
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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
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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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
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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