Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 8 The Scottish Government has the duty to ensure that the development of the offshore renewable sector is achieved in a sustainable manner. A key challenge in delivering sustainable development is...
This dataset includes a series of GIS layers produced from a Marine Scotland Science Survey of the north coast of Scotland. Bathymetric data collected during the survey has been converted for use in ARCGIS and several products are derived from...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 11 No 12 Offshore renewables have the potential to make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government’s target to generate 50% of Scotland's overall energy consumption from renewable sources by...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 11 No 18 Underwater video is widely used to collect information on potential impacts of marine renewables on the environment being non-invasive, autonomous and cost-effective. However, the time intensive...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 11 No 11 Offshore renewables have the potential to make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government’s target to generate 50% of Scotland's overall energy consumption from renewable sources by...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 11 No 14 The interim Population Consequence of Disturbance (iPCoD) is a framework that allows individual-level effects from disturbance to be scaled to population-level impacts. This approach is...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 11 No 10 The Scottish Government has set a target of 100% of Scottish demand for electricity to be met by renewable sources by 2020. Offshore renewables have the potential to make a significant...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 16 The selection of appropriate avoidance rates for use in collision risk models at offshore windfarms is often a key part of the Environmental Impact Assessment process. Ideally, these avoidance...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 17 Marine Scotland requires a detailed understanding of fishing activity in Scottish Territorial Waters to inform marine spatial planning at both the national and regional level, and in relation to...
Following the creation of the Pentland Firth Bathymetric Dataset, Marine Scotland Science have converted the data into a geodatabase. This allows for the data to be queried using standard SQL commands. It can also be plotted in ArcGIS as a normal...