Baltic Sea Human Activities Layers for Environmental Pressure Index

HELCOM's web mapping service provides geospatial layers on human activities used to calculate the Baltic Sea Pressures and Impact Index. The service, built with ArcGIS Server 10.9, is accessible via REST or WMS interfaces and was last updated in July 2021. It is licensed under CC0-1.0.

Use Cases

• Model cumulative environmental pressure based on aggregated human activity layers.
• Map the spatial distribution of human activities affecting the Baltic Sea.
• Integrate activity layers into broader marine ecosystem impact assessments.
• Serve geospatial data for visualization in tools like the HELCOM Map and Data service.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly designed for a specific scientific index (Baltic Sea Pressures and Impact Index).
• Service is accessible via standard geospatial protocols (ArcGIS REST and OGC WMS).
• License is permissive (CC0-1.0) for reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Last updated 2021-07-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific data formats for download are unknown.

Provenance

Source

HELCOM

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from various sources for the Baltic Sea Pressures and Impact Index.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2021-07-27 00:00:00.

Geography

Baltic Sea region