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ATLAS: Spatial Assessment Units (SAUs)
Resource ID
36e5f01c-411d-11ea-b76d-0242ac150002
Title
ATLAS: Spatial Assessment Units (SAUs)
Date
Jan. 27, 2020, 3:53 p.m., Publication
Abstract
The Spatial Assessment Units (SAUs) areas within the ATLAS case studies. The designation of the SAUs was carried out as part of the ATLAS work facilitating the implementation of the European Commission's Marine Strategy Framework Directive/Good Environmental Status in deep waters of the North Atlantic. As part of this work, the usefulness of the software Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool (NEAT) was evaluated. NEAT requires the designation of SAUs as part of its assessments on environmental status (for more information please see ATLAS Deliverable 3.1. "Good Environmental Status and Biodiversity Assessments"). Whenever it was meaningful, SAUs were divided into smaller SAUs (e.g. the parental SAU in the Rockall Bank was divided into four smaller SAU_1, SAU_2, SAU_3 and SAU_4) based on data availability, presence/absence of human activities, bathymetry and topography.
Authors
Consortium, ATLAS
Uricode
Edition
V1
Uploader
Joana.Gafeira
Point of Contact
Gafeira
jdlg@bgs.ac.uk
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Maintenance Frequency
None
Type
not filled
Restrictions
None
License
Not Specified
Language
eng
Temporal Extent
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  • x1: 15.067740211721400
  • y0: 36.294164975430600
  • y1: 69.580761842930500
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG:4326
Keywords
no keywords
Category
Oceans
Regions
North Atlantic