NESP A12: Northern Australia changes in key coastal habitats
Seven case study locations (Keep, Daly, Roper, McArthur, Flinders, and Gilbert River estuaries, and Darwin Harbour) were used to test the utility of the Australian Landsat data archive in the Digital Earth Australia analysis platform for characterising and monitoring the condition and change in coastal habitats. A suite of analyses was undertaken including: assessing the extent of different coastal habitats, detecting coastal change including change in mangrove communities, and the distribution of intertidal areas. The work was successful in: (a) generating baseline information for the case study areas; and, (b) developing valuable monitoring tools for future use.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-04-17
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP), Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE)
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-01-01 2018-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) (dataSource)
- Keywords (Theme)
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- North Marine Bioregion
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of CDU and NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A12.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data was sourced from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub – the Marine Biodiversity Hub is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP), administered by the Department of the Environment and Energy (DOEE).
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License Graphic
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of CDU.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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model output available in various formats
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model output available in various formats
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Intertidal areas were identified using the DEA archive based on modelled tide height that occurred at the time of image acquisition. This analysis utilises an advanced image classification scheme that enables viewing of coastal regions at selected tide stages. In this approach, composite images of coastal regions over varying stages of the tide and varying time periods are generated as a way of showing coastal change. Furthermore, this tidally attributed archive of coastal imagery enables mapping of intertidal extents, which effectively characterises the topography of intertidal zones. This project looked specifically at the effectiveness of mapping changes in mangrove extent over the past 30 years in the nominated priority estuaries.
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- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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1ab541b2-01ce-4062-8b1d-8b5d24f7d346
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1ab541b2-01ce-4062-8b1d-8b5d24f7d346
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-12-14T17:02:03
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-12-14T17:02:03
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018