Marine science: open data network

The Marine Directorate gathers and uses a wide range of data and information as part of its work and has developed platforms to make data and information available. These are:

Information

marine.gov.scot provides information about the Scottish marine environment, including resources that are made available by the Marine Directorate and partners.

Maps

National Marine Plan interactive (NMPi) allows you to view different types of information (as layers) at a scale of your choice and undertake a number of functions with the maps layers including creating maps for printing. Where possible links have been provided to related parts of Scotland's Marine Atlas, updated graphs and data as well as links to data sources to facilitate data download. New data are regularly being added.

Registered users can develop their own data layers.

Data

Marine Directorate data publishing provides access to published data, and allows everyone to explore, download, share and cite those data. Citation information for these datasets is provided through the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).