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Virtual Access (VA)

AQUASERV enables access to extensive databases, software and other web services provided by the project partners below.

Web Tool

VLIZ

Marine Regions Marine Gazetteer Geographic Name Search

Search for a marine region based on name, identifier, or coordinates via our web interface

Web Tool

VLIZ

Marine Regions Query Database

Search for the maritime boundaries by region or coordinates

Web Tool

ICES

ICES Spatial Data

Provides access to maps and spatial layers for organizing and visualizing marine data, supporting planning and analysis for data collection and visualization. Maps can be downloaded as digital shapefiles.

Web Tool, Dataset

JSI

FoodWasteEXplorer

A tool for monitoring and managing nutrients, bioactives, and toxins in food waste streams.

Web Tool

VLIZ

WRiMS Taxon Match

Taxon match tool focussed on the introduced species catalogue WRIMS - import your list of taxon names and get back the official WoRMS nomenclature and other information

Web Tool

VLIZ

WoRMS Taxon Match

Taxon match tool for WoRMS - import your list of taxon names and get back the official WoRMS nomenclature and other information

Web Tool

VLIZ

LifeWatch Antarctic Environment Data

Antarctic environment data portal: access to biogeographic data of the Southern Ocean

Web Tool, Dataset

JSI

NutriBase

A database management system designed to support food data compilation, featuring seamless integration of data from multiple sources (localised for Slovenia, other localisations possible).

Web Tool

JSI

Piskr

A tool for creating nutritious and balanced dietary menus for schools and kindergartens (localised for Slovenia, other localisations possible).

Data Catalogue, Web Tool

VLIZ

LifeWatch Local Observation Data

Observation data: LifeWatch provides access to marine, freshewater, and terrestrial observation via a number of different data tools and catalogues: birds, fish, bats, plankton, shells&mollusks, environmental monitoring, and terrestrial and marine mammels.

Web Tool

VLIZ

Belgium LifeWatch Data explorer

LifeWatch data access via its RShiny tools: access observation, tracking, and other data

Web Tool

VLIZ

European Tracking Network Data Explorer (LifeWatch)

European Tracking Network data access via an RShiny interface

Web Tool

VLIZ

WoRMS Searchable Database

Search the WoRMS database for all our information related to taxon names using our web interface

Web Tool

VLIZ

LifeWatch Webservices

e-Lab: The e-lab is an online application that offers web services (taxonomic, geographic, thematic, etc.), to standardise, analyse, and visualise their data without needing any technical knowledge. The services can be concatinated into workflows

Web Tool, Data Catalogue

ICES

ICES Metadata Catalogue

Provides a platform to manage spatially referenced resources, offering metadata editing, search functions, and an interactive web map viewer.

Web Tool, Dataset

JSI

IsoFoodTrack

A tool for managing data on food stable isotopes and elemental composition.

Web Tool

VLIZ

Marine Regions Map Interfce

Search for maritime boundaries via a map search

Web Tool

VLIZ

Marine Regions Static Maps

Download various maps of marine regions

Vocabularies

ICES

ICES Vocabularies

The ICES Vocabulary Service provides a comprehensive repository of reference codes and controlled vocabularies used to standardize and link data across ICES datasets.

Software

VLIZ

Belgium LifeWatch Software

LifeWatch Belgium software: many of the LW tools (Rshiny, R, Python) are provided as open access packages on the LifeWatch.be GitHub site

Dataset

ICES

Oceanographic Data

Provides access to oceanographic data including parameters like temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and more, spanning over 100 years of data for environmental and climate studies.

Dataset

ICES

Historical Plankton Dataset

Provides access to both historic and current plankton data for marine environmental studies, including data from surveys and research programs.

Dataset

ICES

Acoustic Trawl Surveys

Provides access to processed acoustic and biotic data collected from trawl surveys, offering insights into fish stocks and prey species, including species like herring, mackerel, and krill.

Dataset

ICES

DATRAS (Fish Trawl Survey Data)

Provides access to survey data from bottom trawl fish surveys, including time series data for stock assessments and fish community studies. Data is quality-checked and available for public use.

Dataset

ICES

Fish Stomach Data Portal

Provides access to dietary data for species, helping to understand trophic interactions, energy consumption, and species dynamics within ecosystems. Data is used for ecosystem-based fisheries management.

Dataset

ICES

Eggs and Larvae Database

Provides access to data collected from ichthyoplankton surveys, including fish egg and larvae data, for use in stock assessments and fisheries management.

Dataset

ICES

Underwater Noise Database

Provides access to data on impulsive and continuous underwater noise to support regional sea assessments and pressure indicators on the marine environment.

Dataset

ICES

DOME Web Portal (Database on Oceanography and Marine Ecosystems)

Provides access to a wide range of chemical and biological data for regional marine assessments, including monitoring data, methods, and quality assurance.

Data Tool

ICES

Stock Assessment Graphs

Provides access to stock assessment standard graphs and data tables for analytically assessed stocks, helping users understand ecosystem advice and fishing assessments.

Data Tool

VLIZ

European Ocean Biodiversity Information System (EurOBIS) Data access & services

A data download toolbox, allowing selection of data on geography, time, and data source

Data Tool

ICES

Advice and Scenarios Database (ASD)

Provides access to ICES advice on fishing opportunities and catch scenarios tables, allowing users to search by species, ecoregion, or advice requester. Includes historical, current, and future advice with links to official advice sheets.

Data Tool

ICES

Stock Information Database (SID)

Provides meta-information about ICES stocks, including assessment models used, advice validity periods, and precautionary buffer applications. Tracks rolling issues, data needs, and feedback mechanisms for stock assessments.

Data Portal

ICES

ICES data portal

The ICES Data Portal offers a unified interface for downloading all ICES datasets, organizing them across specific thematic portals, and providing easy access for users unsure of which portal to explore.

Data Catalogue

VLIZ

European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Map Viewer

Search the EMODnet product catalogue for datasets on biology, physics, chemistry, humam activites, bathymetry, seabed habitats, etc, via its Map Viewer

Data Catalogue

VLIZ

European Ocean Biodiversity Information System (EurOBIS) Data Providers

Search the EurOBIS database via its metadata catalogue

Data Catalogue

VLIZ

IMIS Metadata Catalogue

Search IMIS for marine data (publications, institutes. or people), for example the LifeWatch data explorer (lwdataexplorer) and the Python Passive Acoustic analysis tool (pypam)

Data Catalogue

VLIZ

IMIS Data Submission

Submit your own data to be published as FAIR (meta)data via IMIS

Data Catalogue

VLIZ

European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Searchable Catalogue

Search the EMODnet product catalogue for datasets on biology, physics, chemistry, humam activites, bathymetry, seabed habitats, etc, via its web interface

Data Catalogue

VLIZ

Bio-ORACLE Data Layers (LifeWatch)

Bio-ORACLE: essential physical, chemical, biological, and topographic data layers for modelling the distribution of marine biodiversity

Data Archiving

VLIZ

Marine Data Archive (MDA)

Use the MDA to save your data, share with others, and to publish as FAIR data by linking to a metadata record in IMIS

APIs

VLIZ

European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Web Services

Access our metadata database via CSW services, access various EMODnet map products via WMS, download data via WFS

APIs

VLIZ

WoRMS webservice

Search the WoRMS database for all our information related to taxon names using our REST services

APIs

VLIZ

Marine Regions Webservices

Search for all data provided by the Marine Regions database using our REST services

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