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Data related to marine planning activities or providing data and information to assist planning processes.

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Pentland Firth Bathymetric Package

This dataset includes a series of GIS layers produced from a Marine Scotland Science survey of the Pentland Firth. Bathymetric data collected during the survey has been converted for use in ARCGIS and several products are derived from this original dataset.

doi: 
10.7489/1213-1
Citation: 
Marine Scotland. 2013. Pentland Firth Bathymetric Package. DOI: 10.7489/1213-1

Data and Resources

FieldValue
Publisher
Modified
2020-01-07
Release Date
2016-03-03
Identifier
18093954-0ef1-4366-8031-f309f6705e56
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location
Scotland, Pentland Firth
Temporal Coverage
2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
License
UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Granularity
Pentland Firth, Scotland
Author
Marine Scotland
Data Dictionary

The Original bathymetry is tide corrected using Chart Datumn. ASCII ArcGrid output is converted to raster (geotiff format). ESRI Spatial analyst tools used to created additional products (Hillshade, aspect, slope and rugosity). These are made available as layer packages for use with ArcGIS and a KMZ package for use with Google Earth as well as in specialist 3D formats and as XYZ data.

Contact Name
Marine Scotland Science
Contact Email
Public Access Level
Public