An area designated for use or of interest for the military of a specific nation.
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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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.
Military Areas can at present be:
Adapted from data provided by NorthSEE partner Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands.
Not applicable for the global dataset.
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.
The global military areas dataset provided by the partners contained data from 2014-02.
The global dataset was implemented directly in the MSP Challenge, after reprojecting it to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).
In this version of the North Sea edition, the types of military areas are slightly different:
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.
There are no types under the military areas data layers.
Open street maps, accessed june 2016.
Military areas
NA
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.
Provided by the project partner CNR-ISMAR based on data from portodimare geoportal.
Military Practise Areas
"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.
2019-12-03
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.
Adapted from EMODnet.
EMODnet Human Activities, Military Areas 01-02-2022
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."
2021-02-01.
Clipped to the area of interest, and simplified with 1000m tolerance. The layer was reprojected to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).
EMODnet
"EMODnet_HA_WasteDisposal_DumpedMunitions_20240214"
"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."
Co-funded by the European Union.