Marine Institute Webmap Services

 
 

The Standard Map Viewer allows you to view samples of marine datasets collected by the Marine Institute. For up-to-date data observations from the Marine Institute's sensor networks please visit the Integrated Marine Observations page.

To find out more about what spatial data is available from the Marine Institute, please refer to the Irish Spatial Data Exchange (ISDE). The ISDE allows you to search online data catalogues showing Irish marine and other scientific and environmental datasets from the Marine Institute and other ISDE partners. See the Online Resources link for each record (after clicking Show /Hide Full Details) to see how to access or request each dataset. 

Please note that the base maps used by the Standard Map Viewer are third party datasets and are not generally available from the Marine Institute.

Map Services Available

  • All Services - Oceanography, INFOMAR, Fisheries, Inshore Fisheries, Marine Environment, Wave Energy.
  • Oceanography - Research Vessel sea temperature, CTD, Weather Buoy.
    INFOMAR - Bathymetry, grab samples, SVPs and tracklines from the Irish National Seabed Survey and INFOMAR can be viewed through the INFOMAR public viewer.  
  • Fisheries Maps - Groundfish Survey, Biological Survey,  General Fisheries surveys  (Acoustic, Nephrops UWTV Survey, Egg & Larval Survey)
  • Inshore Fisheries - Atlas of fishing and related activities in Ireland's territorial sea.
  • Marine Environment - Nutrients, TidbiT Sea Temperature Probes, HABs Monitoring network.
  • Wave Energy - Irish Wave Energy Resource Atlas.

 

Each service allows users to:

  • View the above data in their spatial context
  • Query the maps for information on key attributes of datasets
  • Extract available datasets and locations of data sensors using an area of interest as csv file format. (For up-to-date data please visit the Integrated Marine Observations page.)
  • Access ISO19115 metadata for layers and maps.
  • Access Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Services (WFS).
  • Access Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Services (WMS).

 Please note that the base maps used by the Standard Map Viewer are third party datasets and are not generally available from the Marine Institute. To find out more about what spatial data is available from the Marine Institute please refer to the Irish Spatial Data Exchange (ISDE).

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