IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Seamap Australia National Benthic Habitat Layer
The Seamap Australia National Benthic Habitat Layer (NBHL) is a nationally synthesised data product of seafloor marine habitat data. Australian continental shelf benthic habitat layers in GIS format were collected from various stakeholders around the country. Through compiling all of these data sets, we established a controlled vocabulary, reviewed by ANDS and external independent assessors, to produce a national classification of marine habitats. This national marine habitat classification scheme complements work undertaken by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub (Theme D).
Seamap Australia data can be visualised, analysed and downloaded from the Seamap Australia website. The Seamap Australia website demonstrates how this data can be complemented with existing data from BRUVS (Baited Remote Underwater Video Units), AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles), Reef Life Survey and other spatial marine data sets. The Seamap Australia data layer, and all component datasets collected from stakeholders for the purposes of this project, is additionally available for download from other external data portals, namely Research Data Australia, and the AODN and IMAS Data Portals.
The Seamap Australia NBHL is of national importance and highlights the diversity of benthic habitats around our marine estate. This is the first edition of a seafloor marine habitat data layer that seamlessly brings together data from each of Australia’s state and territory marine habitat databases. We encourage users to consider this dataset Version 1 in a larger attempt to continuously improve our skills in standardising, collating and sharing marine spatial data. We envisage that this product will be constantly developed and updated as future surveys continue to improve our knowledge of our vast marine estate.
A beta v2 2023 version of the data is available from the following endpoints:
WMS: https://geoserver.imas.utas.edu.au/geoserver/seamap/wms
WFS: https://geoserver.imas.utas.edu.au/geoserver/seamap/wfs
Layer name: SeamapAus_National_Benthic_Habitat_Layer
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-03-06
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Credit
- All marine data providers are listed in the Appendix of the report [see Online Resources section of this record].
- Credit
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
- Credit
- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
- Credit
- Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
- Credit
- Seamap Australia would not have been possible without the contribution of source datasets from the following providers [see downloaded data product for specific ownership details]: • CSIRO • Geoscience Australia (GA) • Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) • Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI) • UniDive (The University of Queensland Underwater Club) • Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Northern Territory Government • Department of Land Resource Management (DLRM), Northern Territory Government • Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), South Australian Government • Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing (DNPSR), Queensland Government • Department of Natural Resources and Mines (DNRM), Queensland Government • Department of Primary Industries (DPI), Queensland Government • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Queensland Government • Department of Primary Industries (DPI), New South Wales Government • Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), New South Wales Government • Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), Victorian Government • Department of Environment Regulation (DER), Western Australian Government • Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPAW), Western Australian Government • Department of Water (DoW), Western Australian Government • Deakin University (DU) • Griffith University (GU) • James Cook University (JCU) • The University of Queensland (UQ) • The University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Biota
- Oceans
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1967-01-01 2017-06-30
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
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- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | BATHYMETRY
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | BATHYMETRY | COASTAL BATHYMETRY
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | WETLANDS | MARINE
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | BENTHIC
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | COASTAL
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | REEF | CORAL REEF
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | REEF
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | ESTUARY | SAV/SEA GRASS BED
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | COASTAL | SAV/SEA GRASS BED
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
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- Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
- Environmental Management
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Benthic seafloor habitat
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- DATA NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION PURPOSES.
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: Lucieer V, Walsh P, Flukes E, Butler C, Proctor R, Johnson C (2017). Seamap Australia National Benthic Habitat Layer. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS).
- Other constraints
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. See downloaded data product for specific ownership of source datasets.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Butler, C., Lucieer, V., Flukes, E., Walsh, P., and Johnson, C (2017) Seamap Australia: A review of marine benthic habitat classification schemes and development of a national benthic classification model. Final Report to the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) High Values Collection #19. University of Tasmania. ISBN: 978-1-925646-62-7 Lucieer, V., Barrett, N., Butler, C. et al. A seafloor habitat map for the Australian continental shelf. Sci Data 6, 120 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0126-2
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Name
- Benthic seafloor habitat
- Name
- NAT_HAB_CL
Identifier
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- ESRI Shapefile
- OnLine resource
- README - instructions for data download [.txt]
- OnLine resource
- INFO - Seamap Australia column descriptions [.docx]
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS OPTION 1 [recommended] - Shapefile format - Seamap Australia national layer (unsubsetted) [direct download ~270MB]
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS OPTION 2 - CSV format - Seamap Australia national layer via OGW WFS service
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS OPTION 3 - Geotiff format [low resolution] - Seamap Australia national layer via OGW WFS service
- OnLine resource
-
SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS OPTION 4 - Shapefile format - Seamap Australia national layer via OGW WFS service [NOTE: MAY BE SLOW TO DOWNLOAD WHOLE LAYER - use access option 1 above for unsubsetted Shapefile]
- OnLine resource
- REPORT - Seamap Australia final report [inc. full methodologies] [pdf direct download]
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_National_Benthic_Habitat_Layer_archived2017
MAP - Seamap Australia national habitat layer
Resource lineage
- Statement
- A full report outlining the methods utilised to create the Seamap Australia spatial data layer is available online at http://seamapaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Seamap-Australia-Report_18_12_11.pdf
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- This parent record contains links to all the component data records which have been used to synthesise the national Seamap Australia data layer product. Note that a small degree of spatial simplification was conducted for source datasets of very high spatial resolution (e.g. multibeam surveys). To access all full-resolution component datasets, refer to the list of source data records attached to this parent record.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research aeroplane
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- human
mdb:MD_Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 4739e4b0-4dba-4ec5-b658-02c09f27ab9a
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4739e4b0-4dba-4ec5-b658-02c09f27ab9a
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-06-16T23:33:04
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-06-16T23:33:04
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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