1 Data information

The database on offshore military areas in the EU was created in 2020 by CETMAR for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the aggregation and harmonization of datasets provided by several sources. It is updated every year and is available for viewing and download on EMODnet Human Activities web portal (www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu). The database contains polygons and/or points representing offshore military areas in the following countries: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Each polygon/point has the following attributes (where available): Country, Country_2, Country_3, Status (Active, Deactivated, Unknown), Type_1 (Firing Area, Air Force Exercise, Surface Exercise, Underwater Exercise, Mine Hunting Exercise, National Defence Area), Type_2, Type_3, Resource, Distance to coast (metres) and Area (square kilometres). The distance to coast (EEA coastline shapefile) has been calculated using the UTM WGS84 Zone projected coordinate system where data fall in.

1.1 Metadata

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2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: 18.82"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 55.49"
## [1] "East-Longitude: 28.71"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 58.34"

2.2 Defined area

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3 Military areas (points)

3.1 Access data

The Web Feature Service (WFS) of the EMODnet Human activities portal allows collecting the data:
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.0

Available labels:

##  [1] "FID"        "country"    "country_2"  "country_3"  "status"    
##  [6] "type_1"     "type_2"     "type_3"     "resource"   "coast_dist"
## [11] "the_geom"   "y"          "x"


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Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson

3.2 Table

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3.3 Map

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