IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Estuarine Habitats of South Australia
This dataset contains habitat mapping and outer boundaries for estuaries of South Australia. These estuaries were identified in the draft 'Estuaries Policy and Action Plan.'
Used to identify the estuarine habitats within South Australia for use in natural resource management and conservaton planning. Description of attributes in related Inventory and Water Quality tables can be found in report: 'Working Towards a State-wide Inventory of Estuaries 2009 - Advancing the inventory of estuaries in five Natural Resource Management Regions of South Australia', DEH and Adelaide Mounty Lofty Ranges NRM Board.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2008-06-30
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-02-11
Owner
Department for Environment and Water (DEW), South Australian Government
- Status
- Completed
Owner
Department for Environment and Water (DEW), South Australian Government - (Science Monitoring and Knowledge)
GPO Box 1047
Adelaide
South Australia
5001
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2002-01-01 2008-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
- Title
- ESRI Shapefile
- Date
- Edition
- -
- Keywords (Place)
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- Australia
- SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Benthic habitat
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- Data supplied for use by the Seamap Australia Project.
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Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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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: Estuarine Habitats of South Australia (2009). Department for Environment and Water, South Australian Government. Data accessed at https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/528cf781-6c28-414d-ac27-412399a4304b 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 South Australian Government for the purposes of the Seamap Australia collaborative project (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme).
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- DATA NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION PURPOSES.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Description
- Appended to original data for styling purposes for the Seamap Australia Project.
- Name
- Benthic habitat
- Name
- SM_HAB_CLS
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- ESRI Shapefile
- OnLine resource
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SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS - This OGC WFS service returns the data (Estuarine habitats of SA) in Shapefile format
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_SA_state_estuarine_habitats
MAP - Estuarine habitats of SA
- OnLine resource
- Original metadata record [SA Location Metadata System]
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Statement
- This dataset is complete for all of the estuaries identified in the draft 'Estuaries Policy and Action Plan' 2007.
Report
Result
- Statement
- The majority of mapping is based on 1:2,500, 1:10,000, 1:15,000, 1:40,000 & 1:80,000 digital orthophotograhy. Due to the varying imagery used in capture the positional accuracy may vary but may be accepted to be +/- 15m for all purposes.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Using estuaries that have been identified as part of the draft 'Estuaries Policy and Action Plan for South Australia' habitat boundaries were delineated using existing benthic habitat mapping and saltmarsh and mangrove habitat mapping and additional line work digitized from aerial photography. Digitization was undertaken in the DEH's SDE edit environment to map vegetation and landform boundaries that were located by a combination of air photo interpretation, heads-up orthophoto digitisation, field capture and integrated line work from the above mentioned existing spatial data sets. Imagery was sourced from the most up to date available in the DEH image library at the time of completion and as such imagery was undertaken using images at a variety of scales (refer to positional accuracy). Data Dictionary: Name Description MEDDESC The overall estuary habitat description. ASSCLASS Acid Sulfate Soil Class ASSLEGEND Acid Sulfate Soil legend - used to display / classify ASSDESC Acid Sulfate Soil description ESTUARINE Defines each system as estuarine or stranded estuarine TYPECODE A general habitat type abbreviation LOCNAME The name/ location of the estuary as determined in the the National Land and Water Audit. LANDFORM The landform classification of the mapped habitat. SHORTDESC The old short description as described in the Saltmarsh & Mangrove habitat mapping TIDALCLASS Defines the tidal regime of the mapping unit polygon e.g. intertidal, subtidal or supratidal COVER Defines the vegetative and sediment type of cover of the mapped habitat polygon e.g. gharnia, reeds, sand etc DENSITY The % of cover within each mapped habitat polygon STRUCTURE Refering to seagrass and algae only. A 'two-tier' cover classifier: - Tier 1:classifies each habitat (polygon) as having either continous (>50%) or patchy (>50%) cover, - Tier 2: classifies each habitat (polygon) cover as either dense, medium or sparse in appearance. INTEGRITY Defines the condition of the cover type i.e. intact, patchy, uniform GROUNDTRUTH Indicate sites that have and have not been visited or may need to be visited in the future.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 528cf781-6c28-414d-ac27-412399a4304b
- 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/528cf781-6c28-414d-ac27-412399a4304b
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-02-12
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-02-12
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
DEWNR.jpg
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
Not available