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Marine Multibeam Backscatter Data from around the UK (2005 Onwards)

The British Geological Survey (BGS) holds an archive of multibeam backscatter data from BGS, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) and other organisations. The data are stored within the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. The majority of the data were collected and processed for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) under the Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). Backscatter image files (in GeoTIFF format) for a survey can be downloaded using the URL link provided or via the Deposited Data Search https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html?simpleText=backscatter&subjectList=3159#. Backscatter data is useful for seabed characterisation for geological and habitat mapping. BGS works with the DAC for bathymetry data at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to archive the backscatter data. View and download the related bathymetry data via the ADMIRALTY Marine Data Portal https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inspire-portal-and-medin-bathymetry-data-archive-centre.

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Date (Creation)
2005
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605639
Owner
  Maritime and Coastguard Agency
United Kingdom
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Custodian
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Owner
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Publisher
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Bathymetry
  • Sea floor
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • Marine geology
  • MEDIN
dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • MEDIN
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
BRISTOL CHANNEL [id=2001350]

Date (Revision)
2010

Geographic identifier
CELTIC SEA [id=2001353]

Date (Revision)
2010

Geographic identifier
ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]

Date (Revision)
2010

Geographic identifier
IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

Date (Revision)
2010

Geographic identifier
NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

Date (Revision)
2010

Geographic identifier
NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]

Date (Revision)
2010

Geographic identifier
UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

Date (Creation)
1979

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Begin date
2005
End date
2005 After
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 / UTM zone 30N (EPSG::32630)
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
  • Geotiff ()

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
OnLine resource
Offshore GeoIndex
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Offshore theme
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Offshore (cultural data) theme

Offshore (cultural data) theme

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dataset Dataset
Other
dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
For BGS multibeam surveys, processed backscatter data is created using CARIS software. BGS works with the partner Data Archive Centre (DAC) for bathymetry at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to obtain multibeam bathymetry data, mainly from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). The data often includes processed backscatter data which BGS make available, but if processed backscatter data are not included, in some cases BGS creates processed backscatter data from the raw data.
File identifier
c35db9dd-2a07-6c2d-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605639
 
 

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