MDE Insights Projects
We're exploring data to deepen our understanding of the marine environment
Through our MDE Insights projects, we hope to unlock the data hosted on the Marine Data Exchange to increase our collective understanding of the marine environment. By doing so, we hope to feed into critical UK marine assessments and reporting, that will help us reach our biodiversity and net zero policy targets.
We also want to make the data hosted on the MDE more accessible, by exploring exciting insights from data collected by the offshore marine industry.
Therefore, we will be publishing monthly insights in our #InsightsSeries, exploring exciting findings from survey data collected by our customers and stakeholders. Highlights from our #InsightsSeries will then be collated in our quarterly newsletter.
We also want to enable our site users to gain maximum value from the data available on the MDE. That is why we are continuously improving the MDE and developing the site further.
We are very proud of the MDE and its evolution to date. However, there is always more work to be done!
Currently, the data available on the MDE can be filtered and searched for by collection dates, theme, industry, development, round and area categories of the series, and the text referenced in the summary text or title of the series page. We want to go further and enable users to search for any word or phrase referenced within the surveys uploaded to the site. This is a mammoth task, but we believe enabling this function will maximise data accessibility, allowing for the inclusion of industry data in essential environmental modelling and marine monitoring and assessments. Please bear with us on this one, it could take some time!
Marine Data Exchange Insights Series
The Insights Series has been prepared by The Crown Estate in partnership with ABPmer, The Crown Estate's data handling partner for the MDE.
