• Minimise the demand for primary aggregates.
• Promote environmentally friendly extraction and transport.
• Reduce the effect of local aggregate extraction.

Launch of the Thames REC WEBGIS

04 December 2009

The Marine ALSF Steering Group are pleased to announce the launch of the Outer Thames WEBGIS.  Following a series of surveys conducted in the Outer Thames (2007), the data has been analysed and interpreted (2009).  The new WEBGIS allows you to browse and visualise a number of geospatial datasets submitted as part of the Thames REC (Data Interpretation and Analysis) Project.  The datasets for the survey and interpretation phases are available from the Marine ALSF Data Catalogue.

The Outer Thames REC is part of a series of 4 broadscale, REC Projects commissioned by the Marine ALSF to develop understanding of Britain's submerged habitats and heritage via broadscale characterisation of the seabed habitats, their biological communities and potential historic environment assets within the regions. The Outer Thames is the first of the 4 REC studies to complete.