IMAS Metadata Catalogue
NSW Estuary Ecosystems 2002
An environmental classification developed in conjunction with the NSW Marine Parks Authority Research Committee. For more information see: Breen D.A. and R.P. Avery. (2002). Broad-scale biodiversity assessment of the Manning Shelf marine bioregion. Draft final report for the NSW Marine Parks Authority. Copies of the report may be borrowed from the library: Environment Australia, GPO Box 787, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia.
This coverage is intended for used in regional level marine conservation assessment. It was prepared using very low cost techniques (ie. unrectified API) and should not be relied upon for navigation purposes.
This represents an historic dataset providing transparency on the 2002 marine park systematic planning process. This product is one of three related datasets used in the assessment process: "NSW Ocean Ecosystems 2002", "NSW Estuarine Ecosystems 2002" & "NSW Marine Habitats 2002"
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This record describes classes for each of the five major estuary ecosystems. The full study also describes the environmental classification of the four ocean ocean ecosystems classified by depth, and nine habitat surrogates.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2002-05-30T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-01-06
Custodian
- Purpose
- The purpose of the mapping was for use in assessments to identify potential locations for marine protected areas in NSW.
- Credit
- State of New South Wales and Office of Environment and Heritage 2012.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 25000
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2002-05-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
- Title
- ESRI Shapefile
- Date
- Edition
- -
- Keywords (Theme)
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- environment
- oceans
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Estuary type
- Benthic habitat
- AODN Instrument Vocabulary
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- Data supplied for use by the Seamap Australia Project.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales Government (2002). NSW Estuary Ecosystems 2002. Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=4327b622-9f7a-4bc2-8470-df7a1bc0e156 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 Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), New South Wales Government for the purposes of Seamap Australia (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme).
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- THIS DATA IS NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION PURPOSES.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Description
- Classification of estuary type (as per Roy et al. 2001)
- Name
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Estuary type
- Name
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ECOSYSTEM
- Description
- Appended to original data for styling purposes for the Seamap Australia Project.
- Name
-
Benthic habitat
- Name
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SM_HAB_CLS
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
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ESRI Shapefile
- OnLine resource
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SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS - This OGC WFS service returns the data (NSW estuary ecosystems) in Shapefile format.
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_NSW_estuary_ecosystems_2002
MAP - NSW estuary ecosystems
- OnLine resource
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REPORT - Broadscale biodiversity assessment of the Manning Shelf region [direct download]
- OnLine resource
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Original metadata record [NSW OEH Catalogue]
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Coastal waterbodies from the NSW Waterways GIS coast coverage (1:25,000 scale) were classified into five main groups according to a classification of NSW estuaries (Roy et al. 2001)which identified five main types of coastal waterbody based on coastal geology, entrance type and tidal exchange. Four sedimentary zones (marine tidal delta, central mud basin, fluvial delta and riverine channel/alluvial plain) were also identified within each waterbody. These groups and zones reflect characteristic ecosystems responding to variation in morphology, hydrology and sediments.Limitations: The large-scale, whole estuary units do not address finer scale variation among tributaries and sedimentary zones.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG/GDA94 / Geoscience Australia Lambert (EPSG:3112)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research aeroplane
Instrument
Identifier
- Code
- cameras
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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4327b622-9f7a-4bc2-8470-df7a1bc0e156
- 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/4327b622-9f7a-4bc2-8470-df7a1bc0e156
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-23T12:34:32
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-23T12:34:32
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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