1 Data information

The geodatabase on areas for aggregate extractions in the EU was created in 2018 by AZTI-Tecnalia for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the aggregation and harmonization of datasets provided by several sources from all across the EU. It is available for viewing and download on EMODnet - Human Activities web portal (www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu). The database contains polygons representing areas of seabed licensed for exploration or extraction of aggregates, in the following countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. Where available, each polygon has the following attributes: Id (Identifier), Area code, Area name, Country, Sea basin, Starting year (the year when the license starts), End year (the year when the license ends), Site Type (exploration or extraction area), License status (Active, not active, unknown), Material type (e.g.: sand, gravel, maerl), Notes, Distance to coast (in metres), Link to Web Sources.

1.1 Metadata

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2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: -3.27"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 46.53"
## [1] "East-Longitude: -1.7"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 47.44"

2.2 Defined area

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3 Aggregate Extraction Areas

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"        "code"       "name"       "material"   "country"   
##  [6] "year_start" "year_end"   "notes"      "sourcetype" "sourcedeta"
## [11] "service"    "sourcelink" "lastaccess" "metadavail" "metalink"  
## [16] "seabasin"   "x_centroid" "y_centroid" "coast_dist" "id"        
## [21] "site_type"  "status"     "the_geom"


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Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson

3.2 Table

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3.3 Map

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