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Monitoring stations (operated by MUMM/OD Nature)
The Scientific Service Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea of the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences has been operating monitoring stations on the Belgian Part of the North Sea since the 1970s. These stations are located in the Scheldt estuary, at open sea and in coastal waters. In 2007, 10 new stations were designated and were placed in the monitoring network needed for the OSPAR convention, the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategic Framework Directive. These replaced a series of 54 previous monitoring stations whose data was gathered throughout the years for the Belgian Monitoring Programme and reported according to the recommendations of the OSPAR Convention. This dataset contains information on all monitoring stations ever used by the Scientific Service Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea. The dataset provides location, name, operational history and for which reporting obligations they are used.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-11-18
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-06-08
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-10-21
- Title
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Digital Object Identifier
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-05-19
- Citation identifier
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http://metadata.naturalsciences.be
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8b317fed-fd7e-4374-a378-4831ff458c09
Belgian Marine Data Centre
- Other citation details
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This dataset is composed of the following sources: ILVO (n.d.). Monitoring networks in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (MUMM).
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Custodian Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell
Originator Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Owner Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Publisher Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
Author
- Keywords
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Reporting INSPIRE
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Marine essentials
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Federal government
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply to access and use
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access.
- Use limitation
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No conditions apply to use.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Oceans
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- Extent type code
- Yes
- Title
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Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)
- Date
- Code
- North Sea
- gml32:beginPosition
- 2014-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
- Distribution format
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Name Version application/xml
Unknown
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Custodian
- Distributor format
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Name Version application/xml
Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.267749
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities od_nature:monitoring_stations
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Custodian
- Distributor format
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Name Version application/xml
Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.118748
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WFS
https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities od_nature:monitoring_stations
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name DOI
https://doi.org/10.24417/8b317fed-fd7e-4374-a378-4831ff458c09 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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The dataset has been merged from several existing ESRI shapefiles on monitoring stations, reprojected towards ETRS89-LAEA and saved as a new shapefile. The resulting shapefile has been reviewed by a senior cartographer. The dataset is offered as the resulting shapefile and an INSPIRE-harmonized GML file.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8b317fed-fd7e-4374-a378-4831ff458c09 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-10-21T16:04:27.271Z
- Metadata standard name
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Geographic information -- Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish French English German
