IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Benthic Habitat GIS data of Sampling Sites within the Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve
This GIS layer is the product of interpreted multibeam acoustic data charaterising the distribution pattern of seafloor habitats at forty sampling sites within the Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve. The three classes that were mapped include hard, mixed and soft substrate. Mappin the Flinders CMR is a prerequisite to understanding the relationships between inshore (shelf) and offshore (slope) habitats and therefore representing a key element in developing effective management for the depth strata across the entire CMR. Habitat characterisation provides the underlying spatial framework for developing models of habitat dynamics, trophic interactions and spatial distribution of marine biodiversity.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-10-09T00:00:00
Point of contact
- Credit
- NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Status
- On going
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2012-01-01T14:33:00 2013-06-30T14:33:00
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 60
- Maximum value
- 360
- Identifier
- EPSG::5715
- Name
- MSL depth
- Identifier
- EPSG::6498
- Name
- Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m
- Identifier
- EPSG::9905
- Name
- Gravity-related depth
- Identifier
- EPSG::5100
- Name
- mean sea level
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
- Title
- ESRI ArcGIS shapefile
- Date
- Edition
- 10.1
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Bathymetry
- Habitat
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Marine Community Profile of ISO19115 v1.4 Geographic Extent Vocabulary
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- TASMANIA
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Restricted
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Nic Bax, Vanessa Lucieer (2013), Benthic Habitat GIS data of Sampling Sites within the Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve. NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub. File identifier and Data accessed at https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=80801dfa-5544-4528-94eb-a2bf904858c3
- Other constraints
- See Point of Contact for access to data
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ESRI ArcGIS shapefile
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ESRI ArcGIS shapefile
- OnLine resource
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NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub website
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Sampling on the Flinders CMR shelf (to ~ 150 m depth) consisted of two phases, the first phase collected coarse information of habitat distribution to inform the site selection for the second phase which was targeted towards surveying biota. In the first phase 40 GRTS sites were surveyed with multibeam and assigned a broad habitat category (soft, mixed, hard) based on the analysis of both the bathymetry and backscatter data products.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Reson multi-beam acoustics ARC-GIS 10 GIS software
- Hierarchy level
- Collection hardware
- Dataset
- Collection Hardware
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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80801dfa-5544-4528-94eb-a2bf904858c3
- 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/80801dfa-5544-4528-94eb-a2bf904858c3
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-10-12T16:02:03
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-10-12T16:02:03
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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