South Australia State Marine Benthic Habitats (DEWNR)
Inshore benthic habitat mapping of the Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges (AMLR), Yorke Peninsula, Eyre Peninsula, Upper Spencer Gulf, Upper Gulf St Vincent, South East and Kangaroo Island as part of a wider DEWNR project to map specific areas of the South Australian inshore environments
Habitat boundaries were interpreted from underwater features discernable on ortho-rectified aerial photographs. The data for the Upper Gulf St Vincent and Upper Spencer Gulf were captured between 2005 and 2007. AMLR data was captured between 2008 and 2009. South East data was captured between 2009 and 2010. Field observations and underwater video footage was used to capture the Upper Spencer Gulf and Upper Gulf St Vincent data. The AMLR data was captured from field observations, underwater video footage, acoustic mapping and sidescan sonar. The data sets were combined as part of a DENR Statewide project. Additional data was captured on Kangaroo Island during 2013 which included field observations and Underwater video footage. This data was added by regional staff using an adapted data schema that now includes species specific information.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-02-18
Principal investigator
- Purpose
- To map specific areas of the South Australian inshore environments.
Distributor
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2005-11-07 2014-02-28
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Keywords (Theme)
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- DIGITAL MAPPING
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Benthic habitat
- BIOMORPHIC
- GEOMORPHIC
- HABITAT_CLASSIFICATION
- STRUCTURE
- SUBSTRATUM
- HABITATDESC
- AODN Instrument Vocabulary
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- Data supplied for use by 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-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, South Australian Government (2014). South Australia State Marine Benthic Habitats (DEWNR). Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=cbe02d9e-2450-4364-ad76-c1d27f030943 on (date accessed).
- Other constraints
- This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources through the Government of South Australia for the purposes of Seamap Australia (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme) and NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D3 (Reefs on the Australian Continental Shelf).
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Description
- Classifies each habitat (polygon) as having either vegetated or unvegetated cover
- Name
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BIOMORPHIC
- Description
- A general 'biological' level discription of the cover type found in each habitat (polygon), i.e. Seagrass, Macroalgae, Invertebrate Community ect.
Identifier
- Name
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BIOTA
- Description
- The approximate % extent of the cover found in each polygon
Identifier
- Code
- Abundance of biota
- Name
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COVER
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPCT
- Name
- Percent
- Description
- Classifies each habitat (polgyon) as having either a hard (consolidated) or soft (unconsolidated) bottom.
- Name
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GEOMORPHIC
- Description
- The habitat type found
- Name
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HABITAT_CLASSIFICATION
- Description
- A 'two-tier' cover-classifier: - Tier 1: classifies each habitat (polygon) as having either continuous (>50%) or patchy (<50%) cover, - Tier 2: classifies each habitat (polygon) cover as either dense, medium or sparse in appearance
- Name
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STRUCTURE
- Description
- A description of the substratum found in each polygon , i.e. Reef, Sand, Silt
- Name
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SUBSTRATUM
- Description
- Habitat type and structure
- Name
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HABITATDESC
- 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 (SA benthic habitats) in Shapefile format
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_SA_state_benthic_habitats
MAP - SA DEWNR benthic habitat
- OnLine resource
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Related metadata record [Data.SA catalogue]
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Habitat boundaries were interpreted from underwater features discernable on ortho-rectified aerial photographs. The data for the Upper Gulf St Vincent and Upper Spencer Gulf were captured between 2005 and 2007. AMLR data was captured between 2008 and 2009. South East data was captured between 2009 and 2010. Field observations and underwater video footage was used to capture the Upper Spencer Gulf and Upper Gulf St Vincent data. The AMLR data was captured from field observations, underwater video footage, acoustic mapping and sidescan sonar. The data sets were combined as part of a DEWNR Statewide project. Additional data was captured on Kangaroo Island during 2013 which included field observations and Underwater video footage. This data was added by regional staff using an adapted data schema that now includes species specific information.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Instrument
Identifier
- Code
- underwater cameras
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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cbe02d9e-2450-4364-ad76-c1d27f030943
- 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/cbe02d9e-2450-4364-ad76-c1d27f030943
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-23T12:38:32
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-23T12:38:32
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018