Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) Geophysical Survey 2010/2_MEPF: MALSF South Coast & East English Channel Synthesis: Sussex Coast (08/Mar/2010 to 18/Mar/2010)

This geophysical survey was carried out under contract for the Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) as part of a Regional Environmental Characterisation, the survey took place from the 8th March to the 18th March 2010. This project is to extend the mapped coverage of the Eastern English Channel Marine Habitat Map (EECMHM) to include the coastal platform from Saltdean east to Dungeness and provide an integrated map dataset covering this extension area The geophysical data was acquired using Surface Tow Boomer and Sidescan sonar equipment. Technical detail of the survey are contained in BGS Open Report OR/10/052.
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0: SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131): SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021):
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Wight, Dungeness-Boulogne, Eastern Channel, DOVER STRAIT, ENGLISH CHANNEL
publication: 2010-03-18
2010-03-08 - 2010-03-18
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Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund
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Data Quality

Geophysical equipment types used included: Sidescan Sonar and Surface Tow Boomer. Sussex Sea Fisheries District Committee was contracted to undertake the survey on behalf of Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund. For more detailed information on the acquisition equipment and data collection techniques, operational standards, data processing methods and quality control procedures used on this survey see the Report of Survey/Cruise Report and associated documentation where available. The information available may vary depending on the age of the survey. Data are checked and loaded to the BGS Coastal and Marine data management system following BGS marine data management procedures.
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British Geological Survey (BGS)
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 667 1000
email: enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
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