Funding Year: 2010
Funding Scheme: INTERREG IV
Sub-Programme: Atlantic Area
Project Duration: 2010 - 2013
Total Project Value: €3,499,695
EU Grant-Aid: €2,274,802
Grant-Aid to Ireland: €245,158
Lead Partner: IFREMER
Irish Partner: Marine Institute
Website: Not currently available
Project Summary:
The MESH-ATLANTIC project involves the provision of harmonised seabed habitat mapping over the coastal and shelf zones of the Atlantic Area in order to help informed spatial planning and management. MESHATLANTIC sets out to draw on the former INTERREG NW MESH project by extending it to the Atlantic Area (AA) marine space and enhancing some of its outputs, namely:
- by collating marine habitat maps and metadata and making them available through the existing Mesh webGIS in homogeneous formats and classification systems,
- by generating a global habitat map for the shelf and coastal area of the Atlantic Area, based on available depth, sediment, biological and oceanographic data,
- by surveying some key areas and improving the Eunis classification
- by quality checking the maps and making them available to the wider stakeholders community along with enhanced internet mapping tools allowing syntheses for informed decisions
- by collating stakeholders’ feedback to further assess the use of maps for marine spatial management
Download further information on the MESH-ATLANTIC project (pdf 343k).
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