Summary information
Study title
French Historical Light Aids to Navigation (F-LAN), 1775-1929
Creator
Litvine, A, University of Cambridge
Dunn, O, University of Cambridge
Shaw-Taylor, L, University of Cambridge
Alvarez-Palau, E
Bogart, D
Study number / PID
854758 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-854607 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
F-LAN is a geospatial data set that documents hundreds of coastal lights that guided ships around France from medieval times to 1929. F-LAN provides visibility range for individual lights. The authors collected all data from scholarly literature and historical coastal navigational charts and official lighthouse surveys. F-LAN allows users to track the provision of coastal lighting over time. It complements the existing LAN dataset for England and Wales.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/11/2020 - 15/01/1929
Country
France
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Other
Universe
Not availableSampling procedure
Not availableKind of data
Numeric
Text
Geospatial
Data collection mode
The data was inputted, and all lights were georeferenced manually. Individual lighthouse locations were copied from official publication lists from 1863, 1872 and 1929. All lights were georeferenced manually and matched against existing coordinates.
Funding information
Grant number
Unknown
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2021
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access.
Related publications
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