Military Areas

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Military Areas

Layer Info
Category	Management
Sub-category	Governance
Editable	Yes

Description

An area designated for use or of interest for the military of a specific nation.

MSP Challenge

Military Areas can have different types depending on the MSP Challenge edition you are looking at. Please refer to the region's tabs for more information about each region.

Back to governance.

In this tab you can see the information that applies concretely to the North Sea edition of the MSP Challenge.

Scroll further down for the details over the North Sea Digitwin edition.

Types

Military Areas can at present be:

• Fly Zones (often called military operations areas)
• Practice Areas, more general (so also for naval ships)
• Ammunition Dumps (often very old) or
• Undefined (not all military activities or interests are known to the general public or to other nations).

Metadata

Data Source

Adapted from data provided by NorthSEE partner Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands.

Original Title

Not applicable for the global dataset.

Description

No description was provided with the original global dataset.

The description from Rijkswaterstaat's dataset can be translate has: area in the North Sea and The Channel used for laying and clearing mines,

and military target practice with guns from both shore and aircraft. It includes all flying areas, ammunition areas, training areas and firing ranges.

Creation Date

The global military areas dataset provided by the partners contained data from 2014-02.

Methodology

The global dataset was implemented directly in the MSP Challenge, after reprojecting it to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).

Digitwin North Sea

Types

In this version of the North Sea edition, the types of military areas are slightly different:

• (Low) flying areas
• Ammunition dumping sites
• Pratice sites
• Shooting (unsafe) areas

Data source

Open source data from Rijswaterstaat - WFS ("militaire gebieden") retrieved on 2020/10. The dataset only covers the Dutch EEZ.

In this tab you can see the information that applies concretely to the Baltic Sea edition of the MSP Challenge.

Types

There are no types under the military areas data layers.

Metadata

Data Source

Open street maps, accessed june 2016.

Original Title

Military areas

Description

NA

Creation Date

NA

Methodology

Reprojected the geodata layer to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).

Not applicable.

At the moment there is no data layer representing the Military Areas in the Clyde Marine Region.

In this tab you can see the information that applies concretely to the Adriatic Sea edition of the MSP Challenge.

Types

Military Areas can at present be:

• Several uses prohibited
• No prohibition for navigation
• Caution while navigating
• Prohibitions by alerts

Metadata

Data Source

Provided by the project partner CNR-ISMAR based on data from portodimare geoportal.

Original Title

Military Practise Areas

Description

"Areas restricted or dangerous to navigation , normally used for naval exercises and shooting published by IIM (Istituto Idrografico Marina Militare)". Retrieved from portodimare geoportalon 2022/01/25.

Creation Date

2019-12-03

Methodology

Data layer implemented as provided by project partners.