Broadscale habitat (EUNIS level 3) for the Cromer Shoals Chalk Beds recommended Marine Conservation Zone (rMCZ)

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Broadscale habitat (EUNIS level 3) for the Cromer Shoals Chalk Beds recommended Marine Conservation Zone (rMCZ).Seabed texture polygons mapped using semi automated ISO cluster unsupervised classification and expert interpretation of acoustic data (MBES bathymetry and backscatter) and groundtruthing data from PSA analysis and image (stills and video) classification.

Data and resources

Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds site report

Site report on Defra Rand, describing survey and habitat map methods.

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2012-01-30 – 2014-08-28
Date (creation)	2015-03-02
Date (publication)	2018-04-26
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	┬® Defra. Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
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