Links to Marine Data websites and resources

This is a living list of websites and resources providing UK and worldwide marine data. If you know of any others please let us know.

• Marine Scotland
• Marine Management Organisation (MMO)
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
• Marine Traffic interactive map
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Commercial sites to get data
• GIS in Ecology links to free datasets
• British Oceanographic Data Centre
• Crown estates
• Joint Nature Conservancy Council (JNCC)
• GOV.UK
• NOAA
• GEBCO

Last updated: 17-Sep-20

Marine Scotland

National Marine Plan interactive, an interactive viewer of Scottish Marine data:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/seamanagement/nmpihome/nmpi

Marine Scotland Interactive:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science/MSInteractive

List of links from the Scottish Governments to useful data

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science/MSInteractive/links

Layers of data available from the Scottish Government as WMS:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/seamanagement/nmpihome/nmpi/wms

(note this is a very large resource)

Marine Management Organisation (MMO)

Data for England (and some for Scotland):

http://planningportal.marinemanagement.org.uk/

Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)

Information on the MCA’s bathymetric data collection programme:

https://www.gov.uk/share-hydrographic-data-with-maritime-and-coastguard-agency-mca

The UK Hydrographic Office portal:

http://www.ukho.gov.uk/inspire/Pages/home.aspx

UKHO INSPIRE Portal and bathymetry DAC

http://aws2.caris.com/ukho/mapViewer/map.action

Marine Traffic interactive map

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

Scottish Natural Heritage

Natural Spaces WMS:

https://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/wms.jsp

SiteLink access to data:

http://gateway.snh.gov.uk/sitelink/index.jsp

Commercial sites to get data

FiND

http://www.marinefind.co.uk/

WeoGeo

http://seazone-market.weogeo.com/

GIS in Ecology links to free datasets

http://www.gisinecology.com/gis_data_sources.htm#Marine data sources

British Oceanographic Data Centre

http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/where_to_find_data/

Crown estates

http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/coastal/downloads/maps-and-gis-data/

Joint Nature Conservancy Council (JNCC)

Marine protected Areas in the UK, interactive map

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=5201&LAYERS=TwelveTS,UKCS,BFL,InSAC,OFFcSAC

Marine Protected Areas - http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4524

Marine Conservation zones - http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4525

GOV.UK

Oil and gas: offshore maps and GIS shapefiles

https://www.gov.uk/oil-and-gas-offshore-maps-and-gis-shapefiles

NOAA

NOAA View Data Imagery Portal

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/view/

National Geophysical Data Center

http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/wcs-client/

GEBCO

Global bathymetric datasets

http://www.gebco.net/

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/