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Queensland Coastal Wetlands Resources Mapping Data

1:100,000 coastal wetland vegetation mapping for Queensland including mangrove communities, saltpans and saline grasslands. Mapping taken from Landsat TM images with ground truthing. Additional metadata is available for details of techniques and accuracy for each section of coastline. Data Currency for each section of coast: NT border to Flinders River - 1995 SE Gulf of Carpentaria - 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992 Cape York Peninsula - 1986-88, 1991 Cape Trib to Bowling Green Bay - 1997-99 The Burdekin Region - 1991 The Bowen Region - 1994-95 The Whitsunday Region - 1997 Repulse Bay - 1989 Central Qld - 1995, 1997 The Curtis Coast Region - 1997 Round Hill Head to Tin Can Inlet - 1997 Moreton Region - 1995.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2010-05-18
Date (Publication)
2017-04-28

Owner

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government - Assessment & Monitoring Unit (Remote Sensing Officer)
Level 2 80 Ann Street
Brisbane
Queensland
4001
Australia
07 3224 22199
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government - Assessment & Monitoring Unit (Remote Sensing Officer)
Level 2 80 Ann Street
Brisbane
Queensland
4001
Australia
07 3224 22199
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

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S
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W


Temporal extent

Time position
1992-01-01T00:00:00
Time position
2001-11-01T00:00:00
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title
ESRI Shapefile
Date
Edition
-
Keywords (Theme)
  • coastal
  • wetlands
  • mapping
  • habitat
  • estuarine
  • coastline
  • environmental
  • protection
  • conservation
  • productivity
  • monitoring
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE HABITAT
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | PLANTS | ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) | MONOCOTS | SEAGRASS
  • EARTH SCIENCE | AGRICULTURE | AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES | FISHERIES
Keywords (Place)
  • Sand Bay
  • Keppel Bay
  • Gulf Carpentaria
  • Moreton
  • Burdekin
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Environmental Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
  • Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Keywords (Theme)
  • Benthic habitat

Resource specific usage

Specific usage
Data supplied for use by the Seamap Australia Project.

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Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Linkage
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Other constraints
Cite data as: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government (2010). Queensland Coastal Wetlands Resources Mapping Data. Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=135EB151-D406-4094-9E9F-40ABC5AA0C7B on (access date).
Other constraints
This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of The Queensland Government for the purposes of the Seamap Australia collaborative project (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme).
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information
Queensland Coastal Wetland Resources: the Northern Territory Border to Flinders River. Project Report. Information Series QI00099. Queensland Coastal Wetland Resources: Sand Bay to Keppel Bay. Project Report. Information Series QI00100. Queensland Coastal Wetland Resources: Cape Tribulation to Bowling Green Bay. Project Report. Information Series QI01064. Coastal Wetlands Resources Investigation of the Burdekin Delta for declaration as fisheries reserves. Report to Ocean Rescue 2000. Project Report. Queensland Coastal Wetland Resource Investigation of the Bowen Region: Cape Upstart to Gloucester Island. Project Report. Resource Assessment of the Tidal Wetland Vegetation of Western Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, Report to Ocean Rescue 2000. Project Report. Marine Vegetation of Cape York Peninsula. Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy. Project Report. Queensland Coastal Wetland Resources: The Whitsunday Region. Project Report.Information Series QI01065. Queensland Coastal Wetland Resources: Round Hill Head to Tin Can Inlet. Project Report. Information Series QI99081.

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
Description
Appended to original data for styling purposes for the Seamap Australia Project.
Name
Benthic habitat

Name
SM_HAB_CLS

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile

OnLine resource
SHAPE-ZIP

DATA ACCESS - This OGC WFS service returns the data (QLD coastal wetlands) in Shapefile format.

OnLine resource
seamap:SeamapAus_QLD_coastal_wetlands_1999

MAP - QLD coastal wetlands resources

OnLine resource
SUPPLEMENTARY INFO - additional metadata summary [doc]

OnLine resource
Original metadata record [eResearch Archive catalogue]

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Measure description
Mangroves: +/- 100 meters

Report

Measure description
Mangroves: approximately 80%

Report

Name of measure
Logical consistency
Measure description
As no evidence to the contrary has been ascertained, it is considered that this dataset is logically consistent

Report

Measure description
The data is complete for the entire Queensland coastline.

Resource lineage

Statement
Mangroves: Landsat TM imagery digitally classified and interpreted with colour 1:50 000 aerial photography and ground truthing.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
135EB151-D406-4094-9E9F-40ABC5AA0C7B

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager
Parent metadata
  • Seamap Australia National Benthic Habitat Layer (NBHL)

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/135EB151-D406-4094-9E9F-40ABC5AA0C7B

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2020-09-23T12:35:23
Date info (Revision)
2020-09-23T12:35:23

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

Benthic habitat coastal coastline conservation environmental estuarine habitat mapping monitoring productivity protection wetlands
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Environmental Management Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
EARTH SCIENCE | AGRICULTURE | AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES | FISHERIES EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | PLANTS | ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) | MONOCOTS | SEAGRASS EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE HABITAT

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