1 Data information

The datasets on submarine telecommunication cables (actual routes) were collected by Cogea starting from the 2014 for the European Marine Observation and Data Network. The underlying data are collated from a variety of sources: SIGCables (managed by Orange), the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH Contis), Greg's Cable Map (via Kis-Orca), and the International Ocean Institute-Malta Operational Centre (University Of Malta/Physical Oceanography Unit, dataset originator: Transport Malta-Maritime Division, ex. Malta Maritime Authority). The datasets contain lines representing actual cable routes locations. Compared with the previous version, this version includes the location of submarine cables that originate from or pass through Maltese Waters.

1.1 Metadata

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1.2 Interactive map

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2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: 3.91"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 42.31"
## [1] "East-Longitude: 7.14"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 43.84"

2.2 Defined area

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.

3 SIGCables Submarine Cables Routes

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"       "objectid"  "name"      "sgc_id"    "status"    "inst_year"
## [7] "dism_year" "length"    "the_geom"


Download data for the defined geographical extent:

Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson kml shapefile

3.2 Map

3.3 Table

The following table displays only a maximum of 10 columns and coordinates. To access the complete data, download the csv or json file.

FID objectid name sgc_id status inst_year dism_year length
sigcables.1 1 CC5 8 1 01/05/1995 295.222
sigcables.2 2 DIDON 11 2 04/06/1983 494.105
sigcables.3 3 F-ALGER 4 19 2 09/06/1980 429.816
sigcables.4 4 F-LYBIE 21 2 11/06/1979 818.458
sigcables.5 5 SEA ME WE-H 23 2 01/01/1986 31/12/1999 914.504
sigcables.22 22 BARMAR 6 2 01/01/1993 348.736
sigcables.6 6 SEA ME WE2-S5 24 2 01/01/1994 2874.680
sigcables.12 12 AMITIE 3 2 13/08/1978 803.930
sigcables.18 18 ARIANE 2 4 2 15/03/1995 2292.670
sigcables.21 21 ARTEMIS 5 2 08/06/1981 1019.980
sigcables.49 49 SEA ME WE4-S4.7 52 1 02/08/2005 48.927
sigcables.50 50 HYERES FESTOON 1 53 1 03/05/1995 5.430
sigcables.51 51 HYERES FESTOON 2 54 1 11/12/1998 20.190
sigcables.52 52 HYERES FESTOON 3 55 1 31/01/1997 6.588
sigcables.53 53 HYERES FESTOON 4 56 1 30/04/1995 14.105
sigcables.58 58 IMEWE Seg3.4 61 1 10/12/2010 52.994
sigcables.60 60 CC4 7 1 08/01/1992 187.065

3.4 Map with id