Title

EMODnet Digital Bathymetry (DTM 2018)

Date (Publication)

2018-09-14

Citation identifier

DOI:10.12770/18ff0d48-b203-4a65-94a9-5fd8b0ec35f6

Abstract

The "EMODnet Digital Bathymetry (DTM) - 2018" is a multilayer bathymetric product for Europe’s sea basins covering:

• the Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat and stretches of water such as Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forth, Forties,Dover, Wight, and Portland

• the English Channel and Celtic Seas

• Western Mediterranean, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea

• Iberian Coast and Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean)

• Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean)

• Aegean - Levantine Sea (Mediterranean).

• Madeira and Azores (Macaronesia)

• Baltic Sea

• Black Sea

• Norwegian and Icelandic Seas

• Canary Islands (Macaronesia)

• Arctic region and Barentz Sea

The DTM is based upon more than 9400 bathymetric survey data sets and Composite DTMs that have been gathered from 49 data providers from 24 countries riparian to European seas. Also Satellite Derived Bathymetry data products have been included derived from Landsat 8 satellite images. The source reference layer in the portal viewing service gives metadata of the data sets used with their data providers; the metadata also acknowledges the data originators. The incorporated survey data sets itself can be discovered and requested for access through the Common Data Index (CDI) data discovery and access service that in September 2018 contained > 27.000 survey data sets from European data providers for global waters. The Composite DTMs can be discovered through the Sextant Catalogue service. Both discovery services make use of SeaDataNet standards and services and have been integrated in the EMODnet portal (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/bathymetry#bathymetry-services ).

In addition, the EMODnet Map Viewer (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geoviewer/ ) gives users wide functionality for viewing and downloading the EMODnet digital bathymetry such as:

• water depth (refering to the Lowest Astronomical Tide Datum - LAT) in gridded form on a DTM grid of 1/16 * 1/16 arc minute of longitude and latitude (ca 115 * 115 meters)

• option to view depth parameters of individual DTM cells and references to source data

• option to download DTM in 58 tiles in different formats: EMO, EMO (without GEBCO data), ESRI ASCII, ESRI ASCII Mean Sea Level, XYZ, NetCDF (CF), RGB GeoTiff and SD

• option to visualize the DTM in 3D in the browser without plug-in

• layer with a number of high resolution DTMs for coastal regions

• layer with wrecks from the UKHO Wrecks database.

The EMODnet DTM is also available by means of OGC web services (WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS), which are specified at the EMODnet Bathymetry portal.

The original datasets themselves are not distributed but described in the metadata services, giving clear information about the background survey data used for the DTM, their access restrictions, originators and distributors and facilitating requests by users to originator.

Credit

EMODnet High Resolution Seabed Mapping project

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium		webmaster@shom.fr	Publisher
EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium		webmaster@shom.fr	Author
Shom (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine)		webmaster@shom.fr	Local service desk
Baltic Sea Hydrographic Commission		data@bshc.pro	Product manager
British Geological Survey, Edinburgh		OffshoreData@bgs.ac.uk	Product manager
British Oceanographic Data Centre		enquiries@bodc.ac.uk	Product manager
Bulgarian National Oceanographic Data Centre(BGODC), Institute of Oceanology		bgodc@io-bas.bg	Product manager
CNR, Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) - Napoli		direttore@iamc.cnr.it	Product manager
CNR, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (IGAG)		direttore.igag@igag.cnr.it	Product manager
CNR, Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Bologna		responsabile@bo.ismar.cnr.it	Product manager
CONISMA, National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Science		info@conisma.it	Product manager
Coronis Computing SL		rafael.garcia100@gmail.com	Product manager
Croatian Hydrographic Institute		office@hhi.hr	Product manager
Danish Geodata Agency – Danish Hydrographic Office		sfo@gst.dk	Product manager
Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development		office@ddni.ro	Product manager
Deltares		info@deltares.nl	Product manager
Department of Geology, Geophysics and Coastal Processes - Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research.		tomerke@ocean.org.il	Product manager
EOMAP GmbH & Co KG		info@eomap.de	Product manager
Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency		webmaster@bsh.de	Product manager
Flemish Ministry of Mobility and Public Works; Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services; Coastal Division		waterwegen_kust@mow.vlaanderen.be	Product manager
Geodetic Institute of Slovenia		info@gis.si	Product manager
Geological Survey Ireland		info@gsi.ie	Product manager
GGS Geo Consultancy		george@ggsgc.eu	Product manager
GRID-Arendal		grid@grida.no	Product manager
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography (HCMR/IO)		iosecretariat@hcmr.gr	Product manager
ICM-CSIC/ Institute of Marine Sciences		secredir@icm.csic.es	Product manager
IEO/Spanish Oceanographic Institute		cedo@ieo.es	Product manager
IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA		sismer@ifremer.fr	Product manager
IGME, Geological Survey of Spain		igme@igme.es	Product manager
IHPT, Hydrographic Institute		mail@hidrografico.pt	Product manager
Italian Navy Hydrographic Office		iim.sre@marina.difesa.it	Product manager
Jardfeingi, the Faroe Islands Earth and Energy Directorate		jardfeingi@jardfeingi.fo	Product manager
Marine Geology and Seafloor Surveying group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta		info@um.edu.mt	Product manager
Marine Information Service		info@maris.nl	Product manager
Maritime Administration of Latvia		lja@lja.lv	Product manager
Marum - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen		info@marum.de,seafloor-imaging@marum.de	Product manager
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"		rmri@rmri.ro	Product manager
National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology		geoecomar@geoecomar.ro	Product manager
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton		enquiries@noc.ac.uk	Product manager
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research		dmg@nioz.nl	Product manager
Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS)		post@kartverket.no	Product manager
OceanWise Limited		info@oceanwise.eu	Product manager
OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Infrastructures Division		azuccolo@inogs.it	Product manager
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography		nodc@ogs.trieste.it	Product manager
Portuguese Institute of Ocean and Atmosphere		info@ipma.pt	Product manager
Rijkswaterstaat Central Information Services		did-info@rws.nl	Product manager
Royal Netherlands Navy, Hydrographic Service		info@hydro.nl	Product manager
SC Marine Research SRL		office@marine-research.com	Product manager
Shom (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine)		webmaster@shom.fr	Product manager
Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences		bathy@geo.su.se	Product manager
Swedish Maritime Administration		sma@sjofartsverket.se	Product manager
Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf		emepc@emepc-portugal.org	Product manager
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD)		postboks@npd.no	Product manager

Thèmes Sextant

• /Physical Environment/Bathymetry/Digital Terrain Model

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Elevation

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Terrestrial

• Administration and dimensions

• Gravity, magnetics and bathymetry

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Reference numbers

• Bathymetry and Elevation

• Metadata parameters

Theme

• EMODnet

• seafloor depth

• ocean depth

• Digital Terrain Model

• DTM

• grid

• bathymetric data

Place

• European seas

• Azores

• Madeira

• Canary Islands

• North-East Atlantic

• Bay of Biscay

• Celtic Seas

• English Channel

• North Sea

• Norvegian Sea

• Iceland Sea

• Baltic Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• Adriatic Sea

• Aegean Sea

• Black Sea

• Arctic

• Barentz Sea

Stratum

• Seabed

Discipline

• Bathymetry

Sous-regions marines

• National

Access constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other legal constraints

DO NOT USE FOR NAVIGATION

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

0.0625  Arc second

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Elevation

Begin date

1816-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2018-01-15T00:00:00

Reference system identifier

EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6

Number of dimensions

1

Cell geometry

Point

Distribution format

Name	Version
GeoTIFF	1.0
NetCDF
XYZ File

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geoviewer	EMODnet viewing service
DOI	https://doi.org/10.12770/18ff0d48-b203-4a65-94a9-5fd8b0ec35f6	DOI of the dataset
WWW:LINK	https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/	EMODnet Bathymetry WMTS service

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geoviewer/	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geoviewer/
WWW:LINK	https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/	EMODnet Bathymetry WMTS service

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/	EMODnet Bathymetry WMTS service

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://ows.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/wms	emodnet:source_references
WWW:LINK	https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/	EMODnet Bathymetry WMTS service

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://ows.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/wms	emodnet:mean_atlas_land
WWW:LINK	https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/	EMODnet Bathymetry WMTS service

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The DTM is a grid of 1/16 * 1/16 arc minute of longitude and latitude (ca 115 * 115 meters).

Each grid cell has the following information:

- x,y coordinates

- minimum waterdepth in meters to LAT

- average waterdepth in meters to LAT

- maximum waterdepth in meters to LAT

- standard deviation of waterdepth in meters

- number of values used for interpolation over the grid cell

- interpolation flag : 1 when extrapolated from the neighbouring cells

- average

Metadata

File identifier

18ff0d48-b203-4a65-94a9-5fd8b0ec35f6

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-03-07T14:45:50.503907Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Shom		sismer@ifremer.fr	Local service desk