Great Barrier Reef features

Coastal features within and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area (such as the Queensland Mainland and Islands, Indicative Reef boundaries and Rocks.). Major coral cay features,major and other coral reef structures (as defined by the reef shoal edge) and tidal, drying or emergent reef areas within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Identification info

Alternate title: GBR_FEATURES_V1_2

Date (Creation): 2015-01-01

Date (Publication): 2017-01-20

Date (Last Revision): 2018-12-31

Edition: Version 1.4

Custodian

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA)

280 Flinders Street

PO Box 1379

Townsville

Queensland

4810

Australia

+61 7 4750 0886

+61 7 4772 6093 (facsimile)

Purpose: To represent Great Barrier Reef Marine Park features within and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. This includes the Great Barrier Reef Mainland and Islands, Indicative Reef boundaries and Rocks.

Status: Completed

Custodian

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) - Data Manager

280 Flinders Street

PO Box 1379

Townsville

Queensland

4810

Australia

+61 7 4750 0886

+61 7 4772 6093 (facsimile)

Spatial representation type: Vector

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Boundaries

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Time period: 1998-01-01 2021-10-29

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0

Keywords (Theme)

marine, mapping

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research

AODN Platform Vocabulary

orbiting satellite

Keywords (Theme)

Benthic physical features
Benthic habitat

AODN Instrument Vocabulary

cameras

Resource specific usage

Specific usage: Data supplied for use by National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D3, and for Seamap Australia.

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Classification: Unclassified

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Title: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Other constraints: Cite data as: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (2018). Great Barrier Reef features (Version 1.4) [dataset] Data accessed at https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=33b58caf-6dab-4c2f-84d3-9a4db064664f 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 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority for the purposes of Seamap Australia (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme). and NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D3 (Reefs on the Australian Continental Shelf).

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Content Information

Content type: Physical measurement

Name: Benthic physical features

Name: FEAT_NAME

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 (GBR benthic features) in Shapefile format.

OnLine resource: seamap:SeamapAus_QLD_GBR_features
MAP - Great Barrier Reef features

OnLine resource: Original metadata record [GBRMPA data catalogue]

Data quality info

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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Statement: Drying reef areas are logically consistent (i.e.: are completely contained within) indicative reef boundaries.

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Statement: Major reef areas, and major exposed portions are present. Smaller exposed areas and shoals may not be present.

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Statement: Accuracy for attributes estimated to be better than 95% correct.

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Statement: The features have not been statistically tested with precision survey techniques. Positional accuracy varies considerably and dataset should NOT be used for navigation purposes, however, for general use the coverage can be regarded as having a nominal scale of 1:250,000.

Resource lineage

Statement: July 2002 Updated in July 2002 to improve the logical consistency with other GBRMPA datasets (ZONING, REEFS, ROCKS). Represents a combined dataset inlcuding elements from CAYS and ROCKS. Features with diameter < 100m extracted to form a symbolised ROCKS coverage. 2003-2004 Updated against satellite imagery during the RAP process (2003-2004) to 25k scale, especially in Cairns, Whitsundays and Hinchinbrook Regions. Callum Shoal defined from Navigational Chart, Reef ID added 20-1271. 2008 Update to dry reef around Low Island and Woody Island as part of Cairns Plan of Management Review (Jan 2008). 2008 Update to indicative reef at Bait Reef as part of Cairns Plan of Management Review (Jan 2008). 21 October 2013 Reef 21-284 named Ron Taylor Reef 22 October 2013 Barren Island Reef (No.3) (23-031c) added (area drawn from Keppels No Anchoring Area) 19 January 2015 U/N Reef 17-065 named Bob Endean Reef (17-065) 17 March 2016 U/N Reef 20-389 named Neville Coleman Reef 28 October 2016 U/N Reef 17-069 named Peter Arnold Reef 06 March 2017 U/N Reef 14-140 named Sydney Schubert Reef 06 March 2017 U/N Reef 18-022 named Felicity Wishart Reef 20 October 2017 U/N Reef 22-101 named Don Kinsey Reef 24 November 2017 U/N Island 17-013b named Catalina Rock 20 November 2018 Yuindalla Island 20-075c name corrected to Yiundalla Island 20-075c Blackcurrent Island 20-010b name corrected to Black Current Island 20-010b As directed by the state of Queensland: Nigger Head Reef 11-146 repealed and reinstated to U/N Reef status Nigger Head 11-146 repealed and reinstated to U/N Cay status

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

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Code: orbiting satellite

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Code: cameras

Metadata

Metadata identifier: 33b58caf-6dab-4c2f-84d3-9a4db064664f

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/33b58caf-6dab-4c2f-84d3-9a4db064664f
Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation): 2020-09-23T12:26:47

Date info (Revision): 2020-09-23T12:26:47

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Title: ISO 19115-3:2018

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