MESH Survey Reports
Seabed habitat maps are created from data collected during field surveys. How the data are collected, both in terms of the equipment used and how it is deployed, has a significant influence on the quality of the final map. MESH Project Partners carried out a series of surveys to investigate their ideas on best practices for the different survey techniques used in habitat mapping. The surveys also served the purpose of collecting new data to support modelling and mapping activities.
The below table provides key details on the surveys carried out by the MESH Project Partners between 2003 and 2007, with a link to each survey report.
| Survey code | Survey name | Partner | Date | Regional sea |
| 01-03-01 | West Hebrides July 2004 | JNCC | Jul-04 | Minches & West Scotland |
| 01-04-01 | West Hebrides September 2004 | JNCC | Sep-04 | Minches & West Scotland |
| 01-04-02 | Isle of Man Sandbank 2004 | JNCC | Nov-04 | Irish Sea |
| 01-05-02 | North & West Anglesey 2004 | JNCC | Aug-05 | Irish Sea |
| 01-07-01 | SW Approaches MESH Survey, R/V Celtic Explorer Cruise CE0705, BGS Project 07/06 | JNCC | Jun-07 | Celtic Sea |
| 01-04-03 | West Hebrides November 2004 | JNCC | Nov-04 | Minches & West Scotland |
| 02-05-01 | 05-341: survey of Hinder Banken gravel fields | UGent | Jun-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-05-02 | ST0502: survey of areas Hinder Banken and Sierra Ventana | UGent | Feb-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-05-04 | ST0515: survey of Hinder Banken south | UGent | Jun-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-05-05 | ST0517: survey of areas Sierra Ventana, Akkaert Bank and Kwinte Bank | UGent | Jul-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-05-06 | ST0528: survey of Sierra Ventana | UGent | Nov-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-05-03 | ST0529: survey of area Sierra Ventana | UGent | Nov-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-06-03 | ST0602: survey of northern part of the Belgian Continental Shelf | UGent | Feb-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-06-05 | 06-401: survey of Sierra Ventana | UGent | Jun-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-07-01 | ST0709: survey of Sierra Ventana | UGent | Apr-07 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-07-03 | 07-222: survey of Vlakte van de Raan | UGent | Apr-07 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-07-04 | ST0624: survey of areas Vlakte van de Raan and Wenduine Bank | UGent | Nov-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 02-07-06 | ST0703b: survey of Vlakte van de Raan | UGent | Feb-07 | Southern North Sea |
| 03-05-07 | REBENT (Abers) Lidar hydrographic survey | Ifremer | Jun-05 | Western Channel |
| 03-05-04 | REBENT 6 (Abers/Audierne) - Acoustics | Ifremer | Apr-05 | Western Channel |
| 03-05-05 | REBENT 7 (Abers/Audierne) - Biology | Ifremer | Jun-05 | Western Channel |
| 03-05-06 | REBENT (Abers) shallow accoustics | Ifremer | Jun-05 | Western Channel |
| 03-06-03 | Rebent/Mesh (Trégor) - Dual topogragic/hydrographic Lidar survey | Ifremer | Jun-06 | Western Channel |
| 03-07-01 | Ifremer | 2007 | Western Channel | |
| 03-04-01 | Rebent 4 (Vilaine) | Ifremer | Oct-04 & Nov-04 | Bay of Biscay |
| 04-05-01 | Survey of areas in Minches and Irish Sea 2 | Marine Institute | Sep-05 | Irish Continental Shelf |
| 04-06-01 | Survey of areas in Minches and Irish Sea 3 (CV06_03_MESH) | Marine Institute | Aug-06 | Minches & West Scotland |
| 04-05-02 |
Survey of areas in Minches and Irish Sea 1 (Report not available) |
Marine Institute | Oct-05 & Nov-05 | Irish Continental Shelf |
| 05-07-01 |
Side scan sonar survey of subtidal musselbeds (Report not available) |
Wageningen IMARES | Sept-06, Nov-06 & Apr-07 | Southern North Sea |
| 05-07-02 | Sidescan sonar survey of intertidal musselbeds, Balgzand Bank | Wageningen IMARES | September & October 2007 | Southern North Sea |
| 05-07-03 | Cruise Oyster grounds and Frisian Front (Dutch Continental shelf) | Wageningen IMARES | 2007 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-05-01 | Doggerbank April 2005 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Apr-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-05-02 | Doggerbank May 2005 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | May-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-04 | Doggerbank 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Mar-06 & Apr-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-04-02 | Doggerbank 2004 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Mar-04 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-05-08 | Zandige kust (Sandy Coast) | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Oct-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-01 | Vlakte van de Raan, Jan 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Jan-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-02 | Oosterschelde, Feb 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Feb-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-03 | Oosterschelde, April 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Apr-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-05 | MWTL NorthSea benthos | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Mar-06 & Apr-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-06 | Hoek van Holland 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Jun-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-07 | Western Wadden Sea, May 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | May-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-08 | Balgzand Bank 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Oct-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-09 | Thornton Bank 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Oct-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-10 | Monitoring B13 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Sep-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-11 | Monitoring of dumpsite, 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Aug-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 06-06-12 | Brown Bank 2006 | TNO (IMARES & NITG) | Nov-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 07-05-01 | Cefas Monitoring Survey CEND 09/05 | Cefas | May-05 & Jun-05 | Eastern Channel |
| 07-05-02 | Eastern English Channel Marine Habitat Map (EECMHM) [CEND12/05] | Cefas | 2005 & 2006 | Eastern Channel |
| 07-06-01 | Eastern English Channel Marine Habitat Map (EECMHM) [CEND14/06] | Cefas | 2005 & 2006 | Eastern Channel |
| 07-04-01 | Hastings Aggregates Sites [CEND06/04] | Cefas | Summer 2004 | Eastern Channel |
| 08-05-01 | Corystes CO 18 2005, survey of Irish Sea/W Scotland | AFBI | May-05 | Irish Sea |
| 08-06-01 | MESH North Western Shelf Consortium ground-truth survey | AFBI | Jun-06 | Irish Sea |
| 04-04-01 | Stanton Banks video & sidescan | AFBI | Jun-04 | Irish Sea |
| 04-04-02 | West Hebrides July 2004 | AFBI | Jul-04 | Scottish Continental Shelf |
| 09-05-02 | Eddystone reef survey | Natural England | Summer 2005 | Western Channel |
| 09-05-10 | Lundy acoustic and ground truth surveys | Natural England | May-05 | Irish Sea |
| 09-05-11 | Natural England | Summer/Autumn 2005 | Southern North Sea | |
| 09-04-01 | Lundy European marine site (video) | Natural England | Summer 2004 | Celtic Sea |
| 09-04-02 | South Wight European marine site (video component) | Natural England | Summer 2004 | Eastern Channel |
| 10-05-02 | Comparison of three acoustic techniques from concurrent data sets | Envision Mapping Ltd | Jul-05 | Southern North Sea |
| 10-06-03 | Sussex Sea Fisheries: using habitat mapping to predict socioeconomic activity | Envision Mapping Ltd | May-06 | Eastern Channel |
| 10-06-02 | Wash intertidal reef: development of sonar techniques for biogenic identification | Envision Mapping Ltd | Sep-06 | Southern North Sea |
| 10-06-01 | Strangford Lough: survey and investigations into use of complementary datasets for habitat mapping | Envision Mapping Ltd | Oct-06 | Irish Sea |
| 10-04-01 | Envision Mapping Ltd | Jul-03 | Southern North Sea | |
| 10-04-02 | Testing and evaluating the use of interferometrics for marine habitat mapping | Envision Mapping Ltd | Aug-04 | Northern North Sea |
| 12-05-01 | Geological survey of areas in Minches, 2005 : shelf areas | British Geological Survey | Aug-05 | Minches & West Scotland |
| 12-05-02 | Geological survey of areas in Minches, 2005 : deepwater areas | British Geological Survey | Aug-05 & Sept-05 | Rockall Trough & Bank |
| 12-06-01 | Stanton Bank 4, 2006 (ref CD180) | British Geological Survey | Jun-06 | Minches & West Scotland |
