Farnes East Marine Conservation Zone Video Survey - 2012

36 underwater videos were collected at the Farnes East Marine Conservation Zone in 2012. The data were gathered for the Marine Conservation Zones Project, which was funded by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The dataset is aggregated by the Government Digital Service.

Use Cases

• Assess marine habitat health based on underwater video footage.
• Identify and monitor species populations within a designated conservation zone.
• Support policy and conservation management decisions for the Marine Conservation Zones Project.

Strengths

• Contains 36 distinct video records.
• Data collection is linked to a specific, government-funded project (Marine Conservation Zones Project).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Video collection for the Marine Conservation Zones Project.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Farnes East Marine Conservation Zone, UK