PANGAEA Bathymetry Web Map Services

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= PANGAEA Bathymetry Web Map Service =

This new PANGAEA Bathymetry Web Map Service https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms/introduction (first release 2021) contains bathymetry data archived at PANGAEA (including only data with a CC-BY 3.0 or CC-BY 4.0 license). This service is developed as part of the German Marine Research Alliance in the core area "Data management and Digitalization" (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung, DAM https://www.allianz-meeresforschung.de/en/). Note that not all bathymetry data currently archived in PANGAEA are visualized through this service. However, the number of datasets will be continuously increased in the future. As of now, only raw & processed data from multibeam echosounder measurements are incorporated in this service (further developments are in progress). Please acknowledge that each layer of this service contains further usage requirements (e.g. citation rules) provided in the abstract (see below). Data visualized in this service shall not be used for navigational purposes.

For feedback & questions please contact PANGAEA. https://www.pangaea.de/contact/

This service is still considered a beta version and accessible via:

https://maps.awi.de/services/common/pangaea_bathymetry/wms

Each incorporated PANGAEA dataset in this service contains a vast amount of dataset-specific individual metadata. If you consider incorporating this service (data layers) into any frontend application (e.g., a web-based data portal), please also make the incorporated metadata of each layer available and visible to the user.

Please note that a Geographic Information System (GIS) (e.g. QGIS https://qgis.org/ ) is required to access this service. However, data of this service can also be explored using the Viewer https://marine-data.de/?site=viewer of the Data Portal German Marine Research https://marine-data.de/. (see also below)

Data Contribution
To facilitate incorporating PANGAEA data to this service, please note the detailed information about bathymetry data submissions to PANGAEA here.

Layer Overview
Currently only data layers originating from multibeam echosounder data are available in the service (see list below). For detailed information check the abstract of each corresponding data layer.

Raw data: Processed data:
 * PANGAEA Water Column Raw Data Acquisition Tracklines
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Acquisition Tracklines
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Footprints
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Footprints Simplified
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Bathymetry (0-5000m haxby, azimuth 315°/altitude 45°)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Bathymetry (0-8000m haxby, multidirectional)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Hillshade (greyscale, azimuth 315°/altitude 45°)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Raw Data Hillshade (greyscale, multidirectional)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Processed Data Footprints
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Processed Data Footprints Simplified
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Processed Data Bathymetry (0-5000m haxby, azimuth 315°/altitude 45°)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Processed Data Bathymetry (0-8000m haxby, multidirectional)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Processed Data Hillshade (greyscale, azimuth 315°/altitude 45°)
 * PANGAEA Multibeam Processed Data Hillshade (greyscale, multidirectional)

Layer Abtracts
directly embedded into the service: https://maps.awi.de/services/common/pangaea_bathymetry/wms?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities * Abstract update 18.03.2022

Availabe metadata
A list of current avaliabe metadata: please note, that more metadata will be added soon.
 * for processed data layers see here
 * for raw data layers see here

Known incoporated web based data portals
This service is incorporated in the following data portals:: ....more information will be provided......
 * Viewer of the Data Portal German Marine Research
 * IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry (DCDB)