Data related to marine planning activities or providing data and information to assist planning processes.
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 23 This report describes a research project, the aim of which was to review the use of Population Viability Analysis (PVA) metrics in the context of assessing the effect of offshore renewable...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 25 For a previous Scottish Government funded project (MMSS/001/11), seal telemetry data were combined with haul-out specific population data to generate usage maps for both grey and harbour seals...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 13 The use of active high frequency echo sounders for commercial activities and marine research has been increasing in recent years. Compared to other anthropogenic noise sources, high frequency...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 14 The Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) for wave and tidal renewable energy generation in Scottish Waters (Faber, Maunsell...
Bathymetric survey data for two areas at the west and north west of Orkney. The original bathymetry is used to derive new products. The data is made available as ESRI layer packages and as Google Earth formats. Due to the size of the datasets...
A bathymetric survey of Tiree has been carried out by Marine Scotland, the British Geological Survey team (BGS) and the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). This data has been tide corrected and cleaned. It is available to download here in several...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 13 Data on swimming depth of sea trout Salmo trutta (L.) in Icelandic waters was extracted and collated into a suitable format for use in marine renewables risk assessment. The data shows that the...
European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) wildlife observation data has been collected from the marine renewable test sites at Billia Croo and Fall of Warness in Orkney. These data have been processed and cleansed and used in reports prepared by EMEC...
In 2014, the Scottish Government commissioned Land Use Consultants to undertake a study to fill data gaps on marine recreation and tourism activity in Scotland and to provide baseline information for marine planning. The project was designed and...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 18 As coastal communities continue to increase in geographical size and population, associated marine economies will have to expand in unison. This relationship gives rise to an increase in user –...