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Seagrass meadows of Arnhem Land, Kakadu and Gulf of Carpentaria

This is a collection of polygons outlining signficant seagrass meadows around Arnhem Land, Kakadu and Gulf of Carpentaria coastal waters for the Northern Australia Marine Biodiversity Survey (NAMBS) project between 2003 and 2005. Data was collected from imagery and ground truthed by observers from helicopter and insitu sample grabs.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2009-07-10T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2017-05-01

Resource provider

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Northern Territory Government - Marine Biodiversity Group
Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Level 1, Goyder Centre
25 Chung Wah Terrace
Palmerston
Northern Territory
0830
Australia
Credit
Data supplied by Department of Environment and Natural Resources. © Copyright Northern Territory of Australia
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Northern Territory Government - Marine Biodiversity Group
Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Level 1, Goyder Centre
25 Chung Wah Terrace
Palmerston
Northern Territory
0830
Australia
08 8920 9212
Spatial representation type
Vector
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans

Extent

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S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
2003-12-09 2005-02-25
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title
ESRI Shapefile
Date
Edition
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE HABITAT
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Environmental Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
  • Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
AODN Platform Vocabulary
  • research aeroplane
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
  • Biotic taxonomic identification
Keywords (Theme)
  • 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
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Other constraints
Cite data as: Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Northern Territory Government (2005). Seagrass meadows of Arnhem Land, Kakadu and Gulf of Carpentaria. Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=b110ebcb-7584-413f-bf12-71651d9b3b18 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 NT Government for the purposes of the Seamap Australia collaborative project (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme).
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
Description
Taxonomic identification of seagrass species

Identifier

Code
Biotic taxonomic identification
Name
SPECIES

Description
Appended to original data for styling purposes for the Seamap Australia Project.
Name
Benthic habitat

Name
SM_HAB_CLS

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile

OnLine resource
SHAPE-ZIP

DATA ACCESS - This OGC WFS service returns the data (NT seagrass meadows) in Shapefile forma

OnLine resource
seamap:SeamapAus_NT_seagrass_ArnhemKakaduGoC_2005

MAP - NT seagrass meadows

OnLine resource
Original metadata record [NT Government catalogue]

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Platform

Identifier

Code
research aeroplane

Metadata

Metadata identifier
b110ebcb-7584-413f-bf12-71651d9b3b18

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager
Parent metadata
  • Seamap Australia National Benthic Habitat Layer (NBHL)

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/b110ebcb-7584-413f-bf12-71651d9b3b18

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2020-09-23T12:36:29
Date info (Revision)
2020-09-23T12:36:29

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

Benthic habitat
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Biotic taxonomic identification
AODN Platform Vocabulary
research aeroplane
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Environmental Management Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE HABITAT

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