National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes

Specifications and Scopes

The Specifications listed below are those used for the National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes.

A national specification is adopted where possible e.g. the specification for bathymetry produced and maintained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Specifications

Example Scopes



Data Specifications

This table provides details on file formats available from this site.

Aerial photography

Data Type Details Data Type Data Contents File Name Example File Example
ortho-rectified ecw, eww, tab Image SU5202_20160823ortho.ecw
SU5202_20160823ortho.eww
SU5202_20160823ortho.tab
pdf Survey Report Report_ortho_ASE03_04_20160824.pdf Image
non-rectified ecw Image 40272_61_1461.ecw

Topographic Survey

Data Type Details Data Type Data Contents File Name Example File Example
Baseline txt Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD, FC SZ1590_20160428tb.txt
Profiles Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD, Chainage, FC, Profile, Reg_ID 5fSU11_20160427tp.txt
Interim Profiles 5fSU11_20161018tip.txt
Post-storm Profiles 5fSU11_20140224tpsp.txt

Hydrographic Survey

Data Type Details Data Type Data Contents File Name Example File Example
Singlebeam, Baseline, unsorted txt Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD 5dRYD10_20040121hb.txt
SZ1790_20151004hb.txt
asc ASCII Grid SY4567_20071231hb.asc
Singlebeam, Baseline, sorted txt Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD 5dRYD10_20040121hbs.txt
Singlebeam and Multibeam Profiles txt Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD, Chainage, FC, Profile, Reg_ID 5fSU11_20151004hp.txt
Multibeam, Baseline txt Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD SZ8891_20160606mb.txt
asc ASCII Grid SZ8891_20160606mb.asc
sd SD File SZ8891_20160606mb.sd

Lidar

Data Type Details Data Type Data Contents File Name Example File Example
Unfiltered Lidar asc ASCII Grid SZ8296_20150517lidaru.asc
txt Easting, Northing, Elevation SZ8296_20150517lidaru.txt
Filterd Lidar asc ASCII Grid SW7251_20160311lidarf.asc
txt Easting, Northing, Elevation SW7251_20160311lidarf.txt
Survey Report pdf Survey Report Report_lidar_LSE03_07_20150517.pdf
Profiles txt Easting, Northing, Elevation_OD, Chainage, FC, Profile, Reg_ID 4dSU24_20150517lidarp.txt

Tide Gauge Data

Data Type Details Data Type Data Contents File Name Example File Example
Tide Data txt Date/Time, Tide_OD, Tide_CD, residual, flag/td> SdP_tides2016.txt

Wave Buoy Data

Data Type Details Data Type Data Contents File Name Example File Example
Wave Data txt Date/Time, Latitude, Longitude, flag, Hs, Hmax, Tp, Tz, Direction, Spread, Sea Temperature Rlf_waves2016.txt