Work is now underway to integrate Scottish survey findings into the Marine Data Exchange (MDE), the resource for offshore industry survey data, research, and evidence in the UK. This follows an agreement between The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland to extend the MDE to cover Scottish waters.
Marine consultancy and survey company ABPmer has been appointed by Crown Estate Scotland to support data handling tasks critical to the effective management of the Scottish marine survey data and associated documents uploaded to the MDE. This includes primary data, observations, metadata, and reports gathered and stored by or on behalf of tenants in relation to geotechnical, geophysical, bathymetric, oceanographic, meteorological, acoustic, biological, sea user, sedimentological, cultural and heritage investigations, and modelling and monitoring. The MDE was created by The Crown Estate in 2013 to store, manage, and disseminate offshore survey data collected by offshore renewables developers during the planning, building, and operation of offshore renewable energy projects, and outputs from Regional Environmental Characterisation Surveys (RECS) under the Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF).
