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EMODnet Human Activities, Military Areas

The dataset on offshore military areas in the European seas was created in 2020 by CETMAR for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the aggregation and harmonization of datasets provided by several sources. It is updated every year and is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The dataset contains points and/or (where available) polygons representing offshore military areas in the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Each point and/or polygon has the following attributes (where available): Country, Country_2, Country_3, Status (Active, Deactivated, Unknown, Planned), Type_1 (Firing Area, Air Force Exercise, Surface Exercise, Underwater Exercise, Mine Hunting Exercise, National Defence Area), Type_2, Type_3, Resource, Distance to coast (metres) and Area (square kilometres). The distance to coast (EEA coastline shapefile) has been calculated using the UTM WGS84 Zone projected coordinate system where data fall in.

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Date (Publication)
2021-02-01
Date (Revision)
2025-03-14
Date (Creation)
2021-02-01
Citation identifier
EMODnet, Human Activities, Military Areas
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centro Tecnologico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR

socioeconomia@cetmar.org

Author

Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment

info@environment.belgium.be

Resource provider

MRDPW - Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (NCRD - National Centre for Regional Development)

office@ncrdhp.bg and regdev@ncrdhp.bg

Resource provider

Danish Maritime Authority

efs@dma.dk

Resource provider

Ministry of Defence (Defence Investments Department)

maris.freudenthal@mod.gov.ee

Resource provider

Ministry of The Environment and Regionals councils (Uusimaa, Kymenlaakso, Southwest Finland, Satakunta, Ostrobothnia, Central Ostrobothnia, North Ostrobothnia and Lapland)

mari.pohja-mykra@varsinais-suomi.fi

Resource provider

BSH - Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

kai.truempler@bsh.de

Resource provider

HNHS - Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service

info_hnhs@navy.mil.gr

Resource provider

Marine Institute

datarequests@marine.ie

Resource provider

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of The Republic of Latvia

kristine.kedo@varam.gov.lv and martins.grels@varam.gov.lv

Resource provider

HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission

data@helcom.fi

Resource provider

Ministry of Defence (Hydrographic Service – Royal Navy)

jcm.deurloo@mindef.nl

Resource provider

Maritime Office Gdynia

umgdy@umgdy.gov.pl

Resource provider

DGRM - Direção-Geral de Recursos Naturais, Segurança e Serviços Marítimos

psoem@dgrm.mm.gov.pt

Resource provider

IHM - Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina

ihmesp@fn.mde.es

Resource provider

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

per.olsson@havochvatten.se , joacim.johannesson@havochvatten.se and havochvatten@havochvatten.se

Resource provider

SHOM

webmaster@shom.fr

Resource provider

Marine Information and Data Centre (IHM)

info@informatiehuismarien.nl

Resource provider

Försvarsmakten

fysplan@mil.se

Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Utility and governmental services

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.4

  • military zone

  • military activities

  • defence

Use limitation

Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. However, for the specific case of Netherlands data, following conditions apply: 1. The Netherlands Hydrographic Office reserves the right to exercise its moral duty (section 6 bis Convention of Bern) on the reproduced materials containing the processed data. 2. The data may not be used for navigational purposes. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website.

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Other restrictions
Other constraints

no limitation

Denominator
100000
Language
English
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Begin date
2021-02-01
Distribution format
Name Version

Esri geodatabase

unknown

Esri shapefile

unknown

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities

EMODnet Human Activities

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?

militaryareas

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?

militaryareaspoly

OGC:WFS

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?

emodnet:militaryareas

OGC:WFS

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?

emodnet:militaryareaspoly

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/579e4a3b-95e4-48c6-8352-914ebae0ae1d/attachments/EMODnet_HA_MilitaryAreas_20250314.zip

EMODnet_HA_MilitaryAreas_20250314.zip

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2009-12-15
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

Data were retrieved from different countries, i.e. Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Validation and quality assurance remain up to primary data sources, while harmonization is carried out by CETMAR. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted. Generally speaking data are to be considered very reliable, because they come from national sources officially in charge for their collection.

Metadata

File identifier
579e4a3b-95e4-48c6-8352-914ebae0ae1d XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-08T11:02:36.386468Z
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centro Tecnologico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR

socioeconomia@cetmar.org

Point of contact
 
 

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