Military Areas

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Western Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean 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.

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Basic Edition

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). The data for the Dutch EEZ was updated with the data from the Digitwin Edition in 2020 (see details below).

Digitwin Edition

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

Metadata

Data Source

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

Original Title

Militaire gebieden

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available.

Methodology

Data implemented as retrieved.

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

OpenStreetMap, accessed june 2016.

Original Title

Military areas

Description

NA

Creation Date

NA

Methodology

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

The Military Areas layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.

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.

In this tab, you can see the information that applies concretely to the Eastern Mediterranean edition of the MSP Challenge; they are comprised of two layers; the military areas and the munition dumps.

1) Military Areas

Types

• Firing areas
• Mine hunting exercise
• Underwater exercise

Metadata

Data Source

Adapted from EMODnet.

Original Title

EMODnet Human Activities, Military Areas 01-02-2022

Description

Abstract as in EMODnet (retrieved on 2023-04-03):

"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 (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The database contains points and/or (where available) polygons representing offshore military areas in the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Each polygon/point has the following attributes (where available): Country, Country_2, Country_3, Status (Active, Deactivated, Unknown, Planned), 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."

Creation Date

2021-02-01.

Methodology

Clipped to the area of interest, and simplified with 1000m tolerance. The layer was reprojected to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).

2) Munition Dump

Types

Not applicable.

Metadata

Data Source

EMODnet

Original Title

"EMODnet_HA_WasteDisposal_DumpedMunitions_20240214"

Description

"The dataset on dumped munitions in the European seas was created in 2018 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 web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The dataset contains points and/or (where available) polygons representing dumped munitions sites in the European sea basins. Each point and/or polygon has the following attributes (where available): Munition type (Conventional and/or Chemical, and/or Unknown), Munition description, Information provider, Update date and Distance to coast (metres). The distance to coast (EEA coastline shapefile) has been calculated using the UTM WGS84 Zone projected coordinate system where data fall in."

Methodology

Not applicable.