Protected Areas Impact Maps Virtual Research Environment

The Protected Area Impact Maps Virtual Research Environment provides the user with tools to visualize, analyze and report on a range of ecologically important seafloor features within marine protected areas - a key component of Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP). The interface is built around an interactive map viewer that provides visualization of a range seafloor features. The interface utilizes cloud computing to analyse the representation of seafloor features within marine protected areas for a selected exclusive economic zone or marine ecoregion. Finally, the interface presents the results of this analysis in an interactive report, with options to download the report or the results of the analysis. The interface will assist users in understanding which seafloor features occur in an area and how these are currently represented in marine protected areas. This information can be used to prioritize future planning of protected areas to include seafloor features which are poorly represented. The interface allows the user, for a selected reporting region, to report on a range of seafloor features within managed areas: (i) Reporting regions: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and Marine Ecoregions, (ii) Managed areas: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), (iii) Seafloor Features: Seafloor Geomorphology and Seagrass, Mangroves and Coral Reefs.

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Acknowledgment Statement This work has received support from the BlueBRIDGE Project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant agreement No 675680) and is operated by the D4Science Infrastructure (D4Science.org).
Public page https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/protectedareaimpactmaps
VRE Creation Date November 13, 2015
VRE Expiration Date February 28, 2020
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Author Mangiacrapa Francesco
Maintainer Mangiacrapa Francesco
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Last Updated 11 April 2018, 14:58 (CEST)
Created 27 March 2018, 11:41 (CEST)