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Project Glossary
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Term |
Defintion | |||
| Baseline | Data resulting from activities during the EIA and route planning phase are called baseline data. They were acquired to understand the state of Baltic Sea properties and/or gain reference data to be compared to the state after construction activities. | |||
| Blocks | Sections of route defined for the purpose of survey data acquisition. Blocks are nominally 30km long. The first block is Block 1 at the Russian Landfall, the last block is Block 40 at the German landfall. | |||
| Commercial use | Any use of the DIF Datasets for industrial projects is deemed to be commercial and requires acquisition of individual agreements with Nord Stream AG (additional conditions may apply). | |||
| Dataset | Smallest entity of digital data and its accompanying Metadata. Each Dataset has a unique ID (Dataset Identifier) and is listed in the searchable catalogue. | |||
| Data User | Individual who is granted access to a Dataset, including his or her immediate collaboration sphere, defined here as the institutions, partners, students and staff with whom the Data User directly collaborates. | |||
| DIF | The Data and Information Fund, made available by Nord Stream AG. The term “data fund” shall be understood as “data pool”. | |||
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone | |||
| EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment | |||
| HELCOM | Helsinki Commission (Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission) | |||
| KP | The twin gas pipelines are 1224 km long each. Each pipeline is divided in Kilometer Points starting with KP 0 at the Russian landfall and ending with KP 1224 at the German landfall. The geographic position of the KPs varies across route versions. | |||
| Metadata | Metadata document data and contain relevant information about the content of the Dataset, its location and collection time, and its original purpose. | |||
| NEGP | North European Gas Pipeline | |||
| Route version | During the planning phase of the twin gas pipelines several route options have been investigated leading to a number of route versions. Therefore descriptive text can refer to particular route versions. |
FAQ
Q: The Dataset description says that the monitoring program lasts beyond 2012 but the Dataset contains data only until 2012. Why?
A: The Data and Information Fund has been launched with data until the end of 2012. After the launch there are no further activities for adding content.