Database including spatial data on ecosystem services and (anthropogenic) pressures

Abstract

<p>The Baltic Sea Atlas (http://bio-50.io-warnemuende.de/iowbsa/index.php) was implemented to store<br />and share marine spatial planning data and datasets from the BONUS BASMATI project. Data are<br />used in the project’s case studies. Additional datasets were included to provide examples on what<br />kind of data can be used in marine spatial planning to account for ecosystem services. Data<br />categories, data properties and metadata information follow the recommendations of Deliverable 3.1.<br />The Baltic Sea Atlas is based on the open source webGIS framework kvwmap. The application is<br />hosted at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Germany and connected to the<br />metadata portal of the institute. The application provides simple visualisation including basic<br />operation tools. The access via login and password allows data sharing with the project partners and<br />other interested users, while ensuring basic licence agreements.<br /></p>