IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Benthic inventory of reefal areas in Moreton Bay, Australia
The study involved the collection of field data and acquisitioning of satellite imagery to create a map that presents a benthic inventory of reefal habitat areas within Moreton Bay. Mapping was guided by the most recent reef map (Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, 2004), the new field data, local knowledge and/or visual interpretation of high spatial resolution satellite imagery.
The inventories for each reefal area were based on georeferenced spot check field data collected by volunteer teams in 2015 and 2016 (n=610). This field data was overlayed on high spatial resolution ZY-3 satellite imagery (5 m x 5 m pixels) captured in June 2014. Polygons were manually digitised around reefal areas by an expert from the Remote Sensing Research Centre using visual interpretation of the texture and colour of the pixels in the satellite imagery, as related to water depth, field data and local field knowledge. Polygons were subsequently assigned one of three categories (Coral on reef matrix, Soft Coral on Sand/Rubble, and, Algae on sand/rubble). The project was a collaborative citizen science project between Reef Check Australia, The University of Queensland Remote Sensing Research Centre and Healthy Waterways to collect benthic inventories for eight key subtropical reefal areas in Central Moreton Bay - Mud, Saint Helena, Green, King, Macleay, Goat, and Peel Islands, and, Myora Reef.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-02-23
Principal investigator
Co-author
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Biota
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2014-06-01 2016-12-31
Resource format
- Title
- ESRI Shapefile
- Date
- Edition
- -
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Keywords (Place)
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- Great Barrier Reef
- Keywords (Theme)
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- benthic habitat
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- Data supplied for use by the Seamap Australia Project.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
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
- Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Loder, Jennifer; Host, Rachel; Kovacs, Eva M (2018): Benthic inventory of reefal areas in Moreton Bay, Australia. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892402
- Other constraints
- This dataset is copy of the original dataset, which available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892402, and is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of the University of Queensland for the purposes of the Seamap Australia collaborative project.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
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
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- ESRI Shapefile
- OnLine resource
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SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS - This OGC WFS service returns the data (benthic inventory of Moreton Bay) in Shapefile format.
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_QLD_MoretonBay_benthic_inventory_2016
MAP - benthic inventory of Moreton Bay
- OnLine resource
- SUPPLEMENTARY INFO - Documentation of benthic inventory of reefal areas in Moreton Bay, Australia
- OnLine resource
- Original metadata record [PANGAEA catalogue]
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- human
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research aeroplane
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
mdb:MD_Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- f55a53db-09fc-480d-aa9e-2aa6bb304b8c
- 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/f55a53db-09fc-480d-aa9e-2aa6bb304b8c
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-23T12:36:21
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-23T12:36:21
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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