A 2018 map of potential and high-confidence extents of the Annex I habitat 'submarine structures made by leaking gases' within the UK continental shelf. The dataset was produced by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee to support the EC Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC). It includes separate layers for features mapped as points and lines.
Use Cases
- Identify and monitor protected marine habitats based on mapped extents of submarine gas structures.
- Conduct spatial analysis for marine conservation planning based on the confidence levels (potential vs. high confidence) of habitat presence.
- Support regulatory compliance and reporting for the EC Habitats Directive based on the defined habitat classification.
Strengths
- Explicitly maps features to the EC Habitats Directive Annex I habitat 1180.
- Distinguishes between potential and high confidence mapped extents.
- Separates zero-dimensional (points) and one-dimensional (line) representations into distinct layers.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Time Range
- 2018
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-14 09:48:14.626529; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- UK continental shelf