HELCOM: Find Geodata of the Baltic Marine on data.europa.eu
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, also known as the
Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)
[https://helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/data-maps/], is a regional
platform focused on environmental policy-making, aimed at protecting
the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all forms of pollution.
To achieve this, it facilitates open access to environmental
information and makes spatial data available on the HELCOM Map and
Data Services
[https://maritime-spatial-planning.ec.europa.eu/practices/baltic-sea-data-and-map-services].

The Data and Map service is a Baltic Sea-oriented online mapping tool
combining spatial data from different thematic map portals. The map
service contains datasets from sources other than HELCOM as well. The
available map data is accessible from all thematic map services for
overlaying purposes. Each dataset is accompanied by a metadata
file which describes the dataset.

HELCOM’s data is used in a wide range of sectors such as fisheries,
shipping, nature protection and scientific research. For example,
biodiversity-related datasets
[https://maritime-spatial-planning.ec.europa.eu/practices/baltic-sea-data-and-map-services]
such as species distribution and protected areas, help in nature
conservation while datasets related to pressures, such as pollution
and sources, on the Baltic Sea help streamline human activities and
datasets.

Since 2022, geodata of the Baltic marine from the HELCOM metadata
catalogue
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?catalog=helcom-fi&showcatalogdetails=true&locale=en]
can be accessed from data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/en]. Both
HELCOM and data.europa.eu aim to make data available free and open to
a wider community, including the European open data ecosystem,
researchers, NGOs and the private sector. 

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Publication Date/Time
2023-03-06T10:00:00+00:00
HELCOM Metadata catalogue contains descriptions of datasets collected
by the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission