IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Seabed Habitat Solitary Islands Marine Park and Commonwealth Marine Reserve (South)
Digitised habitat layers for the southern section of the Solitary Islands Marine Park and Solitary Islands Marine Reserve, NSW. Includes reef and unconsolidated seafloor types as interpreted from a series of high resolution bathymetry and backscatter data obtained during swath surveys 2005-2012.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-01-11T00:00:00
Custodian
Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), New South Wales Government - Waters Wetlands and Coasts Science, NSW OEH
PO Box A290
Sydney South
Sydney
NSW
Sydney
Australia
- Credit
- New South Wales Marine Parks Authority
Point of contact
Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), New South Wales Government - Ingleton, Timothy
PO Box A290
Sydney South
Sydney
NSW
1232
Australia
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2005-01-02T00:00:00 2012-01-31T00:00:00
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (Theme)
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- remote sensing
- multibeam
- backscatter
- shape
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
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- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | BENTHIC HABITAT
- EARTH SCIENCE | LAND SURFACE | GEOMORPHOLOGY | COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES
- EARTH SCIENCE | LAND SURFACE | GEOMORPHOLOGY
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE HABITAT
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | WETLANDS | MARINE
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | COASTAL HABITAT
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | REEF HABITAT
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
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- Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
- Marine Geoscience
- Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
- Keywords (Theme)
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- National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Seafloor habitat type
- AODN Instrument Vocabulary
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data provided for use by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, Project D3
- Use limitation
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW State Government.
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
- The citation in a list of references is: citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).
- Other constraints
- Please contact the researcher when accessing the dataset.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Name
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Seafloor habitat type
- Name
- Classification: reef / unconsolidated
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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SHAPE-ZIP
This OGC WFS service returns the data for download in Shapefile format.
- OnLine resource
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NESP:NESP_Seabed_Habitat_SolitarySouth_MAP
MAP - South Solitary Islands seabed habitat
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Swath acoustic data was collected with a GeoSwath interferometric sidescan by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage. The geo-referenced depth and sidescan backscatter data, when processed is used to digitise areas of rocky reef by hand at a constant scale of 1:2,000 or finer using a combination of the bathymetry and backscatter, with a minimum mapping unit of approximately 20 m depending on the complexity of the seafloor features. For the habitat layer the geometry of this layer was repaired using the Repair Geometry tool within ArcToolbox, cleaned using ETGeowizards, and dissolved using ArcToolbox. Recent updates of the layer involved using the Update and Union tools within ArcGIS to update areas of swath that had been changed since the last version of the habitat layer. Topology was built and there were no overlaps present. The attribute table was edited to simplify the data and remove unnecessary information. An intuitive estimate of attribute accuracy is provided here. The horizontal precision of hand digitised polygons are generally better than 15m. Polygons were hand digitised at a scale of no less than 1:2500 and based around the identification of bins (2x2m) as either data or no data. Due to the coarseness of hand digitising some data gaps may be included within the polygon and small areas of data excluded from the polygon. Overall map accuracy was calculated to be 81.56%, using video groundtruthing data compared to digitised polygons. User accuracy for reef areas was slightly higher, at 84.05%, while accuracy for Non-reef areas was 79.36%. The Tau coefficient (T) was 0.69.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Instrument
Identifier
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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9d6b28d2-2d6b-4726-b603-ab03e3d15d34
- 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/9d6b28d2-2d6b-4726-b603-ab03e3d15d34
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-10T08:56:49
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-10T08:56:49
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
Not available