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Beach litter on monitored sites (plastic pieces/100m)

Data set represents the reported beach litter items on monitoring sites at the Baltic Sea area. Data includes the sum value of items per category for each monitoring site, as an average for the whole monitoring period. Categories include: Artificial polymer materials (plastic), rubber, cloth/textile, paper/cardboard, processed/worker wood, metal, glass/ceramics and unclassified. Number of items in the data set is always in relation to a 100 m strip of beach. In Map and data service the category "plastic" is visualised. Litter data is provided by HELCOM contracting parties in response to data call for State of the Baltic sea report.


NOTE: Spatial data set includes only categorised sum values of beach litter items. An excel file including the complete national data sets with all litter items, and all individual monitoring events, is available by downloading the data set. Download is available behind the link below. Please also note that countries have used different categorisation protocols for their data, and the spatial data set is a harmonisation of these protocols, on a category level. The excel file will provide further details on what protocols have been used.


NOTE: Please note that in Latvia monitoring is carried out only in the summer season and is not completely comparable with other countries that carry out monitoring seasonally.


Attribute information:

Country: country where the site is located

Monitoring site: Name of the monitoring site

Beach type: rural/urban/reference

Length: Length of monitored beach

Width: Width of monitored beach

HELCOM sub-basin National: National description of the sub-basin

HELCOM sub-basin: HELCOM sub-basin on assessment level 2

Litter categories: Artificial polymer material - unclassified: The sum of all material belonging to this category. Value is an average of all individual monitoring events.

sum: The sum of all categories. Value is an average of all individual monitoring events.

monitoring period: The first and last monitoring period of monitoring site

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Date (Publication)
2018-05-31
Unique resource identifier
https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0ad43c29-442e-4628-9944-b0e695126846
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Sea regions

GEMET

  • beach

  • litter

Keywords
  • MADS

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Other constraints

Use constraints: Data can be used freely given that the source is cited

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Access constraints: No limitations on public access.
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
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Begin date
2012-01-01
End date
2016-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
Download dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Open in Map Viewer ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Litter data is provided by HELCOM contracting parties in response to data call for State of the Baltic sea report (HOLAS II).


Original raw data sets are included in the download. These original data sets have been further processed by the Secretariat. Data has been harmonised to enable direct comparison between countries and different protocols, on litter category level.

File identifier
0ad43c29-442e-4628-9944-b0e695126846 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-09-24T12:36:05
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET
beach litter
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Sea regions

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