CAMRIS Marine Benthic Substrate Database - Marsed

This database contains information about the distribution of 10 different types of sea floor sediment in the Australian region. It was derived from data collected and mapped by the Ocean Sciences Institute, University of Sydney.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2017-09-19T00:00:00
Credit
The metadata for this data collection was obtained from the Australian Government Department of the Environment (http://www.environment.gov.au)
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) - CSIRO Enquiries
Locked Bag 10
Clayton South
Victoria
3169
Australia
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
1995-01-01 2015-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
Keywords (Theme)
  • CAMRIS
  • Coastal and Marine Resources Information System
  • coast
  • coastal
  • marine benthic substrate
discipline.ANZSRC_FOR_Codes_2008.rdf
  • Geospatial Information Systems
  • Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Physical Oceanography
Region
  • Australia
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
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
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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: CSIRO (2015): Marine Benthic Substrate Database - CAMRIS - Marsed. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. http://doi.org/10.4225/08/551485612CDEE
Other constraints
This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of CSIRO for the purposes of the Seamap Australia collaborative project (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme).
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information
CAMRIS, standing for the Coastal and Marine Resources Information System, is a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology was the custodian of the 'coastal' subset of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS). Coastal ARIS became the core dataset of the CAMRIS project. The Coastal ARIS database was developed from a coastal inventory developed by Galloway et al. This inventory contained relatively large scale data including landform, geology, vegetation, soil, land use, climate and population information for each of 3027 3x10km sections around the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania, but excluding offshore islands.

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
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 (CAMRIS Benthic Substrate) in Shapefile format.

OnLine resource
seamap:SeamapAus_NAT_CAMRIS_benthic_substrate

MAP - CAMRIS benthic substrate

OnLine resource
Original metadata record [CSIRO DAP]

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Measure description
+/- one degree.

Report

Measure description
Data are assumed to be correct.

Report

Measure description
Coverages are topologically consistent. No particular tests conducted by ERIN.

Report

Measure description
Complete for the Australian continent.

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
ERIN: Data were projected to geographics using the WGS84 datum and spheroid, to be compatible for the Australian Coastal Atlas. Ocean Sciences Institute extracted the data from the AUSEABED database, and sent to CSIRO. CSIRO: All CAMRIS data were stored in VAX files, MS-DOS R-base files and as a microcomputer dataset accessible under the LUPIS (Land Use Planning Information System) land allocation package. CAMRIS was established using SPANS Geographic Information System (GIS) software running under a UNIX operating system on an IBM RS 6000 platform. A summary follows of processing completed by the CSIRO: 1. r-BASE: Information imported into r-BASE from a number of different sources (ie Digitised, scanned, CD-ROM, NOAA World Ocean Atlas, Atlas of Australian Soils, NOAA GEODAS archive and The Complete Book of Australian Weather). 2. From the information held in r-BASE a BASE Table was generated incorporating specific fields. 3. SPANS environment: Works on creating a UNIVERSE with a geographic projection - Equidistant Conic (Simple Conic) and Lambert Conformal Conic, Spheroid: International Astronomical Union 1965 (Australia/Sth America); the Lower left corner and the longitude and latitude of the centre point. 4. BASE Table imported into SPANS and a BASE Map generated. 5. Categorise Maps - created from the BASE map and table by selecting out specified fields, a desired window size (ie continental or continent and oceans) and resolution level (ie the quad tree level). 6. Rasterise maps specifying key parameters such as: number of bits, resolution (quad tree level 8 lowest - 16 highest) and the window size (usually 00 or cn). 7. Gifs produced using categorised maps with a title, legend, scale and long/lat grid. 8. Supplied to ERIN with .bil; .hdr; .gif; Arc export files .e00; and text files .asc and .txt formats. 9. The reference coastline for CAMRIS was the mean high water mark (AUSLIG 1:100 000 topographic map series).

Resource lineage

Statement
The item called SUBSTRATE describes 9 classes: ----------------------------------------- Biosiliceous marl and calcareous clay; Calcareous gravel, sand and silt; Calcareous ooze; Land mass; Mud and calcareous clay; Mud and sand; Pelagic clay; Sand, silt and gravel with less than 50% mud; Volcanic sand and grit.
Hierarchy level
Attribute

Metadata

Metadata identifier
cc05ae56-98a2-43e2-bab3-509ef6bb643b

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Parent metadata
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/cc05ae56-98a2-43e2-bab3-509ef6bb643b

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2020-09-23T10:51:54
Date info (Revision)
2020-09-23T10:51:54

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

Benthic habitat CAMRIS Coastal and Marine Resources Information System coast coastal marine benthic substrate
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution Marine Geoscience Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | BENTHIC

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