IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Collated OzSET (Australian Surface Elevation Table) data (NESP MaC 1.11)
Tidal wetlands are vulnerable to accelerated rates of sea-level rise projected by climate models. Assessing the resilience, or vulnerability, of these environments requires measurements of rates of vertical accretion, subsidence and elevation gain across a range of coastal settings. The Surface Elevation Table (SET) technique is applied globally to assess the extent of vertical adjustment of tidal wetlands to sea-level rise over decadal timescales. This enables measurement of whether wetlands are keeping pace with sea level rise (measured at tide gauges), or subsiding relative to local sea level rise and thus vulnerable to permanent inundation and loss.
Australia’s network of Surface Elevation Tables is one of the most extensive in the world, consisting of over 200 benchmark monitoring stations from Westernport Bay, Victoria to Darwin Harbour, NT. This record describes the consolidated SET data collated from the Australian network (OzSET) as at 2022. This data can be used for analysing change to the elevation of wetlands wetlands at the study sites encompassed by OzSET.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-10-03
Identifier
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Citation identifier
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ISO 26324:2012
- Code
- 10.25959/4WYK-F503
- Codespace
- doi.org
- Description
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Principal investigator
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-02-11 2022-11-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (Theme)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Surface elevation table
- GCMD Earth Science Keywords
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of Macquarie University and NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.11.
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: Saintilan, N., & Lovelock, C. E. (2022). Collated OzSET (Australian Surface Elevation Table) data [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. https://doi.org/10.25959/4WYK-F503
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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xls
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xls
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Surface Elevation Table (SET) was used to collect the data. The SET device consists of a vertical benchmark rod that is driven into soil profile (typically 8-25m depth) to support the portable SET device. A portable horizontal arm that is attached to a fixed point at the rod, extending across the marsh surface; at the end of the horizontal arm, vertical pins are lowered into marsh surface at each fixed position, and the height above the horizontal arm is recorded.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/52824eff-0af8-4e93-9815-14e91b2020bb
- 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/52824eff-0af8-4e93-9815-14e91b2020bb
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-05-06T11:44:25
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-03-03T09:05:03
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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