WISE Marine Map Viewer

WISE Marine Map Viewer is an interactive web mapping tool that enables users to explore, visualise and combine EU marine spatial datasets. It provides access to data on marine ecosystems, human activities, environmental pressures and protected areas, allowing users to overlay layers, access metadata and download datasets. The tool supports evidence-based marine policy, planning and environmental management by improving access to harmonised spatial information and helping users identify areas of concern, pressures and conservation priorities.

Improves access to harmonised European marine spatial information and allows users to combine ecosystem, pressure and human-activity layers in one viewer. This can support baseline assessment, marine spatial planning and the identification of areas requiring further investigation. The viewer is not a dedicated climate-adaptation or scenario-modelling tool, so its adaptation value lies mainly in evidence provision, monitoring and indicator development for marine governance.

• European and marine-basin assessment of ecosystems, pressures, activities and protected areas.
• Evidence provision for implementation of EU marine policy, including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
• Marine spatial planning, ecosystem-based management and conservation assessment.
• Use by European and national authorities, researchers, NGOs and other marine-data users.