RBINS metadata catalog
Beach Litter collected in 2023-2024 by citizen science association the Proper Strand Lopers
Beach Litter count data collected across 10 beaches of the Belgian coast in 2023 and 2024 by volunteers of the citizen science association Proper Strand Lopers. One of the key indicators of abundance, composition and trends of litter in the marine environment is the amount on beaches. OSPAR monitors litter on 100m stretches at over 70 beaches in the North-East Atlantic following common monitoring guidelines. The monitoring records litter in 112 predefined litter items in 11 types: Plastic / polystyrene, Metal, Paper and cardboard, Wood, Sanitary waste, Cloth, Rubber, Glass, Pottery/ceramics, Medical waste and Faeces.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-09-08
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-02-06
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-12-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-05-19
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.24417/133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300
- Identifier
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http://metadata.naturalsciences.be
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133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300
Belgian Marine Data Centre
- Other citation details
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This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Francis Strobbe, Yvan Stojanov, Johnny Rymenans (2025). Beach Litter web application. (2) Senne Aertbeliën, Alex Vandenbrouck (n.d.). Beach litter data.
- Keywords
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Reporting INSPIRE
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Federal government
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply to access and use
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access.
- Use limitation
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No conditions apply to use.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
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- Extent type code
- Yes
- Date
- Unique resource identifier
- Belgian Coast
- gml32:beginPosition
- 2023-02-28
- gml32:endPosition
- 2024-12-14
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
- Distribution format
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text/html
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Unknown
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text/csv
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Unknown
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text/html
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Unknown
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Distributor
- Name
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text/html
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.009352
- OnLine resource
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Beach Litter web application. Francis Strobbe, Yvan Stojanov, Johnny Rymenans
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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An HTTP link to view information
Distributor
- Name
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text/csv
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.313021
- OnLine resource
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Beach litter data. Senne Aertbeliën, Alex Vandenbrouck
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV
- OnLine resource
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Volunteers clean a defined area of 100 metres in 10 beach municipalities on the Belgian coast four times a year, and meticulously record what has been cleared. Macrolitter items are identified based on the Joint List of Litter Categories for Marine Macrolitter Monitoring.
- File identifier
- 133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-03T16:08:31.359+01:00
- Metadata standard name
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Geographic information -- Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
Overviews
Spatial extent
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