RV Belgica - campaigns track

This datasets is a compilation of all the campaigns tracks for the two RV Belgica (A962 and 11BU) from 1985 until today. It'll be regularly updated with new data.

Date (Creation): 2026-03-04

Date (Revision): 2026-09-28

Date (Publication): 2026-09-28

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3081

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:3081
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: de Ville de Goyet Nicolas (n.d.). RV Belgica - campaign tracks.

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Measurement Services Ostend (MSO)	mso@naturalsciences.be	Author
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Author
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher

Keywords

Reporting INSPIRE
Federal government

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: No conditions apply to use.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Language: English

Topic category

Oceans

gml32:beginPosition: 1985-08-19

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown

Distributor

Distributor contact

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)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

Distributor format

Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown

Transfer size: 0.267749

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	od_nature:RV_Belgica_campaign_tracks

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3081	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: Locations have been cleaned with outliers removal. Tracks have been generated based on the start and end date of each campaign.

Metadata

File identifier: bmdc.be:dataset:3081 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-09-28T15:31:55.566Z

Metadata standard name: Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata author

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)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
German
French
Dutch; Flemish
English

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