Description: The dataset is a spreadsheet of munition piles, their properties (e.g., number of objects, variability, burial state), and the parameters characterizing their environmental (e.g., munition compound concentrations and current velocity) and maritime (e.g., distance to various maritime uses and traffic density) surroundings in the German Baltic Sea. Data were collected over numerous cruises from 2017 to 2024. All munition piles in the dataset are located at Kolberger Heide (close to Kiel Fjord) or in the Lübeck Bay. The purpose of data acquisition was to understand the distribution and properties of dumped munitions in German waters as well as the hazards and risks they pose to maritime uses. Munition piles were annotated in multibeam echosounder data, assessed in detail in photomosaics, and analyzed using an array of geospatial analysis methods.
Global identifier:
Doi(
"10.1594/PANGAEA.988426",
)
DataMeasurements(
DataMeasurements {
domain: Unspecified,
station: None,
measured_variables: [
"Burial depth",
"Current velocity, mean",
"DATE/TIME",
"Distance to bathing sites",
"Distance to cables",
"Distance to contaminated area centroids",
"Distance to fish sampling stations",
"Distance to military areas",
"Distance to mussel sampling stations",
"Distance to protected areas",
"Distance to sediment deposits",
"Distance to shipping lanes",
"Environmental vulnerability",
"Event label",
"Explosive compounds in fish",
"Explosive compounds in mussels, per dry mass",
"Explosive compounds in water",
"Fishing effort",
"Fishing intensity",
"Identification",
"Identification remarks",
"LATITUDE",
"LONGITUDE",
"Layering of objects on pile",
"Number of objects on pile",
"Objects, size, maximum",
"Objects, size, median",
"Photomosaic, annotated",
"Pile, area",
"Pile, variability",
"Sediment type",
"State of corrosion of casing",
"State of fuze",
"Traffic density cluster ID",
"Traffic density, all vessels",
"Traffic density, cargo vessels",
"Traffic density, non-cargo vessels",
"Traffic density, non-passenger vessels",
"Traffic density, non-passenger/non-cargo vessels",
"Traffic density, passenger vessels",
"Wave height, mean",
],
methods: [],
},
)
Origins: /Wissenschaft/HEREON /Wissenschaft/PANGAEA
Tags: Muschel ? Munitionsaltlast ? Munition ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Gewässergefährdung ? Frachtschiff ? Passagierschiff ? Analyseverfahren ? Daten ? Gewässerzustand ? Standortwahl ? Verkehrsdichte ? Fischereiaufwand ? Datenerhebung ? Schifffahrt ? Schutzgebiet ? Bestattung ? Ostsee ? MBES ? Multibeam Echosounder ? UXO ? maritime hazards ? photomosaics ? unexploded ordnance ?
Region: Kolberger Heide
Bounding boxes: 10.28° .. 11° x 54.03° .. 54.5°
License: cc-by-sa/4.0
Data access requires registration: click here for further informationLanguage: Englisch/English
Modified: 2026-01-07
Time ranges: 1900-01-01 - 2024-07-07
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