Global Risk & Response (GRR) Open-source Provider

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Katy Reed

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Market research services
Environmental monitoring other than for construction
Economic research services

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1 month from now

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To identify a suitable supplier for the provision of reliable, timely, open-source information that can improve the speed and accuracy of advice from DfT to UK aircraft operators on the threats and risks they face overseas. These updates will be provided both via email and via an online portal featuring geographical maps. The supplier should also provide assessments of aviation security for specific locations on request

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2. Project Summary In September 2025, NOC and JNCC conducted a survey aboard the RSS Discovery (DY200) gathering evidence to monitor The Canyons MCZ and inform assessment of the condition of the designated features of the site. The Canyons MCZ is in the far south-west corner of the UK continental shelf and is unique within the context of England's largely shallow seas due to its depth, sea-bed topography and the coral features it contains. The designated features of The Canyons MCZ are listed in Table 1. More information on The Canyons MCZ can be found in the JNCC site information centre (https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/the-canyons-mpa/). Table 1 Designated features of The Canyons MCZ Protected Feature Feature Type Deep-sea bed Broadscale marine habitat Cold-water coral reefs Feature of Conservation Importance Coral gardens Feature of Conservation Importance Sea-pen and burrowing megafauna communities Feature of Conservation Importance Figure 1 Location of The Canyons MCZ in the context of Marine Protected Areas proximal to the site with existing multibeam data from previous surveys to The Canyons MCZ from the MESH 2007, JC125 (2015) and JC237 (2022) surveys, and EMODnet bathymetry. 3. Project Aims JNCC wishes to commission a contract to undertake the external quality assurance (eQA) analysis of seabed imagery (still images and video) collected on the DY200 survey via drop frame camera. More detailed metadata will be provided as well as information from logs and the survey report. There are also representative images from the DY200 survey shown in Appendix E. Table 2 Number of stills and hours of video data to be analysed from DY200. Data type Quantity Drop camera video 5 hours video Drop camera stills 300 images AUV images 100 images The following will be supplied to the successful contractor: • Access to BIIGLE project with all stills, video and label trees. o Please email the contacts for technical information (see page 1) if you would like to be added as a guest to the BIIGLE project to review the imagery. • Epibiota Quality Assurance Framework Proforma spreadsheets 4. Original Project Objectives To meet the overall aims of this project, the objectives for the original analysis were: 1. Analysis of stills and video taken with the drop-camera system 2. Provide substrate and taxonomic image reference collections for each substrate type and taxon identified from imagery. 3. 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Analysis of stills data from drop-camera Stills should be analysed in BIIGLE using the label trees shown in Table 5. Annotations should be added to stills as either tier 1 or tier 2 labels depending on the label tree used. Some tier 1 labels may be added directly into the proforma (see below). More details on the still annotation types and how they should be applied are provided in Appendix A. Table 6 Label trees for stills annotation and the annotation type which should be used for each label tree Stills analysis label tree Stills annotation type NMBAQC image quality Tier 1 JNCC image quality Tier 1 Substrate Tier 1 Biota Tier 2 Laser points Tier 2 Litter Tier 2 Anthropogenic Tier 2 Stills will be analysed to extract the following information: 1. Each still will be assigned image quality scores using labels from the following two label trees. Further analysis of the still image will be dependent on the image quality score. 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