IMAS Metadata Catalogue
WA Marine Futures Project - reef habitat
The Marine Futures Project was designed to benchmark the current status of key Western Australian marine ecosystems, based on an improved understanding of the relationship between marine habitats, biodiversity and our use of these values. Approximately 1,500 km2 of seafloor were mapped using hydroacoustics (Reson 8101 Multibeam), and expected benthic habitats "ground-truthed" using towed video transects and baited remote underwater video systems. Both sources of information were then combined in a spatial predictive modelling framework to produce fine-scale habitat maps showing the extent of substrate types, biotic formations, etc.
This project record provides linkage to each of metadata records describing data collected from the 9 study areas: Abrolhos Islands, Broke Inlet, Geographe Bay, Jurien Bay, Middle Island, Mount Gardner, Point Ann, Rottnest Island, and Southwest Capes. To access the source datasets from each study site in their original (unaggregated) form, see child records linked to this parent record.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-02-24
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
- Credit
- Natural Heritage Trust
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2006-01-01 2008-12-31
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Reef habitat
- Benthic habitat
- AODN Instrument Vocabulary
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- Data provided for use by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D3, and for the Seamap Australia Project.
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: Meeuwig J, Radford B (2008). WA Marine Futures Project - reef habitat. The University of Western Australia & Australian Institute of Marine Science. Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=532138db-7c8f-4346-82cf-04d16e4d662d 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 University of Western Australia (UWA) for the purposes of the Seamap Australia collaborative project (testing for a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme) and NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D3.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Description
- Predicted based on spatial modelling of multibeam hydroacoustics surveys and in situ video surveys
- Name
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Reef habitat
- Description
- Appended to original data for styling purposes for the Seamap Australia Project.
- Name
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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 (benthic habitat) in Shapefile format
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_WA_MarineFutures_reef_MAP
MAP - Marine Futures Project benthic habitat
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Areas of seafloor in water deeper than 10 metres were surveyed with hydroacoustics using a Reson 8101 Multibeam or interferometric swath echosounder system, mounted on the hull of the sampling vessel. These data were processed to construct full coverage maps of seafloor bathymetry and textural information. These maps, combined with observations recorded from in situ video footage, unerpinned the development of statistical models that produced the most efficient, objective, and ecologically meaningful classifications of sea floor features and inhabitants as possible for natural resource management and planning.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Instrument
Identifier
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/532138db-7c8f-4346-82cf-04d16e4d662d
- 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/532138db-7c8f-4346-82cf-04d16e4d662d
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-04-25T21:48:59
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-05-05T14:16:56
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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