Anchorages are places where ships can safely lay anchor.
The Anchorages layer is a static data layer. Anchorages are polygons, i.e., geometric shapes that you can draw in, edit or remove when making a plan.
Anchorages create the following pressures on the ecosystem:
Photo credits: Photograph by Tim Green, "Anchor on the quayside at Mylor".
Return to shipping.
There are no types.
Data prepared to incorporate in a previous version of the MSP Challenge, combined with shipping data from NorthSEE partner World Maritime University (only for Belgium and The Netherlands Exlusive Economic Zones).
Not available.
Previous version of the MSP Challenge: before 2016.
World Maritime University: not available. Implemented on 2018-05.
Both data sources were reprojected to the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035) projection. Used the data provided by World Maritime University for Belgium and The Netherlands Exclusive Economic Zones and kept the data prepared for the previous edition of the MSP Challenge for the remainder of the region.
The North Sea Digitwin Edition only features data for Belgium and The Netherlands Exclusive Economic Zones. The data source is Rijkswaterstaat , the data layer has the original title "ankergebieden" and was retrieved on 2019-10.
Not applicable.
This data layer is not present in the Baltic Sea Edition.
Data provided by project partner (Marine Scotland)
Data layer implemented on the MSP Challenge on 2017-12.
Data implemented as provided.
Provided by project partner CNR-ISMAR based on data from the Italian Ministry of transportation - coast guard, for Italy's Exlusive Economic Zone, and tools4msp-eu -GARI for the other countries in the region.
2021-02-19
The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR).
Co-funded by the European Union.