1. MESMA: for sustainable use of European seas and coastal areas
EU FP7 project

2. Aim of MESMA
Produce integrated management tools (concepts, models and guidelines) for designation, monitoring, evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas (SMAs).
The main tasks of MESMA are information analysis, the development of a generic framework, the testing and evaluation of this framework through case-studies and the development of a toolbox. All these actions are tackled in different work packages (WPs)
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3. WP5: Data management
data-management and geo-informatics is crucial to MESMA
development of structure to combine data
Deliverables (brief description and month of delivery)
D5.1 Internal meta-database tools, data access portals, data inventory, open access database. (M12)
D5.2 Report with review and recommendations for system design, data types and availability (M 14)
D5.3 Data model and ontologies (M 36)
D5.4 GIS integrated map products and meta-database and geographic information database (M38)
D5.5 Project interconnected databases (internal, external, centralised and distributed) (M.40)
D5.6 Manual containing guidance, system evaluation and recommendations for best practice (M.48)

4. www.mesma.org The partners of MESMA.
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