Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) MCZ: Runswick Bay: Multibeam Survey rnsb_7_2013: Northern North Sea (09/02/2013 to 19/02/2013)

Multibeam survey of Runswick Bay rMCZ. This survey was conducted to acquire seabed data in order to later assess the suitability of the survey area as a Marine Conservation Zone. Full coverage multibeam survey collecting bathymetry and backscatter to client specifications, namely International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Order 1a standard, WGS84 latitude and longitude co-ordinates collected by using a POS/MV which combines GPS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), depths corrected to Chart Datum (CD), crosslines run at 20 times spacing of main lines. Raw and processed data delivered to Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK (Cefas) complete with georeferenced mosaics and GeoTiffs images. These data are archived with the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centres (DACs) including the British Geological Survey (BGS) DAC for geology and geophysics, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH) and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) bathymetry DAC. The full site data package including raw is also available on request from BGS.