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Populus, Jacques; Vasquez, Mickael; Albrecht, James; Manca, Eleonora; Agnesi, Sabrina; Al Hamdani, Zyad; Andersen, Jesper; Annunziatellis, Aldo; Bekkby, Trine; Bruschi, Antonello; Doncheva, Valentina; Drakopoulou, Vivi; Duncan, Graeme; Inghilesi, Roberto; Kyriakidou, Chara; Lalli, Francesco; Lillis, Helen; Mo, Giulia; Muresan, Mihaela; Salomidi, Maria; Sakellariou, Dimitris; Simboura, Mika; Teaca, Adrian; Tezcan, Devrim; Todorova, Valentina; Tunesi, Leonardo. |
In order to most benefit from the potential offered by the European marine basins in terms of growth and employment (Blue Growth), and to protect the marine environment, we need to know more about the seafloor. European Directives, such as the MSFD, but also the Horizon 2020 roadmap explicitly called for a multi-resolution full coverage of all European seas including bathymetry, geology and habitats. The present work, following on a suite of past initiatives, has made a big step forward in this direction. It has first boosted the collation of existing maps from surveys by setting up a framework and a procedure to encourage people to submit their maps and data. This resulted in a more attractive EMODnet seabed habitat portal and a snowball effect with more... |
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Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00388/49975/50583.pdf |
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