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.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-02-18

Principal investigator

Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), South Australian Government - Miller, David
c/o GPO Box 1047
Adelaide
South Australia
5001
Australia
Purpose
To map specific areas of the South Australian inshore environments.

Distributor

Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), South Australian Government - Royal, Matthew
c/o GPO Box 1047
Adelaide
South Australia
5001
Australia
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
2005-11-07 2014-02-28
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords (Theme)
  • DIGITAL MAPPING
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
AODN Platform Vocabulary
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Keywords (Theme)
  • 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.

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Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Linkage
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License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License


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Website
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
BIOMORPHIC

Description
A general 'biological' level discription of the cover type found in each habitat (polygon), i.e. Seagrass, Macroalgae, Invertebrate Community ect.

Identifier

Code
Biotic taxonomic identification
Name
BIOTA

Description
The approximate % extent of the cover found in each polygon

Identifier

Code
Abundance of biota
Name
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
GEOMORPHIC

Description
The habitat type found
Name
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
STRUCTURE

Description
A description of the substratum found in each polygon , i.e. Reef, Sand, Silt
Name
SUBSTRATUM

Description
Habitat type and structure
Name
HABITATDESC

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 (SA benthic habitats) in Shapefile format

OnLine resource
seamap:SeamapAus_SA_state_benthic_habitats_2013

MAP - SA DEWNR benthic habitat

OnLine resource
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
cbe02d9e-2450-4364-ad76-c1d27f030943

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager
Parent metadata

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
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
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

BIOMORPHIC Benthic habitat DIGITAL MAPPING GEOMORPHIC HABITATDESC HABITAT_CLASSIFICATION STRUCTURE SUBSTRATUM
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Abundance of biota Biotic taxonomic identification
AODN Platform Vocabulary
research vessel
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 | BENTHIC HABITAT EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE HABITAT

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