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

Eastern English Channel seabed habitat mapping

Reference:

04/01

Organisation:

British Geological Survey

Amount Funded:

£1,281,392

Status:

Complete

Objectives

• Produce digital bathymetric xyz data of UK waters between Selsey Bill (Longitude 0° 47'W) and Dungeness (Longitude 1° 05'E) out to the median line.
• Process digital xyz data with 3D visualisation software and produce digital sea bed surface morphology models.
• Interpret sea bed morphology models and correlate with available geological and sedimentological data to improve the resolution of current mapping of rock outcrop, channels, sand wave fields and sand banks.
• Compare sea bed morphology models with multibeam corridor data acquired by the Eastern English Channel Marine Habitat Map for any temporal variations
• Evaluate sea bed morphology models against biotope maps produced for Eastern English Channel Marine Habitat Map and amend as necessary