Micro litter - Spatial distribution of the sampling effort (period 2017-2022) - Other specific protocols v2025
This visualization product displays the spatial distribution of the sampling effort (based on the start position of the sampling tow) over the six-years' period 2017-2022 from other specific protocols.
EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Before 2021, there was no coordinated effort at the regional or European scale for micro-litter. Given this situation, EMODnet Chemistry proposed to adopt the data gathering and data management approach as generally applied for marine data, i.e., populating metadata and data in the CDI Data Discovery and Access service using dedicated SeaDataNet data transport formats. EMODnet Chemistry is currently the official EU collector of micro-litter data from Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) National Monitoring activities (descriptor 10).
A series of specific standard vocabularies or standard terms related to micro-litter have been added to SeaDataNet NVS (NERC Vocabulary Server) Common Vocabularies to describe the micro-litter.
European micro-litter data are collected by the National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs). Micro-litter map products are generated from NODCs data after a test of the aggregated collection including data and data format checks and data harmonization.
A filter is applied to represent only micro-litter samplings carried out according to a very specific protocol such as the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) or Oceaneye.
The spatial distribution was then determined by calculating the number of times each cell was sampled during the period 2017-2022, only taking into account the start position of the tows. The corresponding total distance (kms) sampled in each cell is also provided in the attribute table.
Information on data processing and calculation are detailed in the attached methodology document.
Warning: the absence of data on the map does not necessarily mean that they do not exist, but that no information has been entered in the National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) for this area.
This work is based on the work presented in the following scientific article: O. Gerigny, M. Brun, M.C. Fabri, C. Tomasino, M. Le Moigne, A. Jadaud, F. Galgani, Seafloor litter from the continental shelf and canyons in French Mediterranean Water: Distribution, typologies and trends, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 146, 2019, Pages 653-666, ISSN 0025-326X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.07.030.
Données et ressources
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Guidelines and formats for gathering micro-litter dataHTML Ouvrir
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Description of the layer's fieldsHTML Ouvrir
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EMODnet Map ViewerHTML Ouvrir
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Micro litter - Other specific protocols - Nets location & mesh size usedHTML Ouvrir
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Methodologies applied to create the mapsHTML Ouvrir
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The article behind the calculation methodHTML Ouvrir
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Data Access and CitationHTML Ouvrir
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Informations supplémentaires
| Étendue temporelle | 2011-08-31 – 2021-06-15 |
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| Date (creation) | 2025-02-07 |
| Statut | onGoing |
| Fréquence de mise à jour | asNeeded |
| Langue des métadonnées | en |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Métadonnées sources | ISO 19115 XML |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-11-04 |
| Créé | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |