DPLUS071 JR18002 Cruise Burdwood Bank MultiBeam TOPAS 2020

TOPAS was used opportunistically in support of the MMA project at Burdwood Bank. Sub-bottom profile data gives information on the seabed immediately beneath the seafloor. Bathymetric profile of sections of the Burdwood Bank were collected on board of the vessel RRS James Clark Ross in February 2020. On behalf of the Falkland Islands Government, the South Atlantic Environment Research Institute (SAERI), together with British Antarctic Survey (BAS), successfully competed for Darwin Plus funding (projej number DPLUS071) to begin investigations relating to marine resources, habitat structure and community composition, to better inform management decisions principally regarding marine spatial planning. A detailed report on the collection and processing of the data with an evaluation of data quality and surveying methods is presented in Appendix A1 of the 'JR19002 Cruise Report'