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This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub scoping study - "National Areas of Interest for Seabed Mapping, Characterisation and Biodiversity Assessment". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata. -------------------- Seabed and marine biodiversity data are time-consuming and costly to collect, so it is imperative that acquisition is focused on areas that align with end user priorities. The value that different stakeholders place on seabed and biodiversity data can be difficult to determine. Therefore, a shared process for identifying survey priorities is required to ensure the maximum shared benefit of future survey investment across research users, funding agencies, infrastructure providers, as well as the wider marine research community. The project aimed to assist with the planning and prioritisation of marine surveys (both physical and biological) by scoping a prioritisation framework for marine surveys undertaking physical and biological seabed data collection in Australia. Focused workshops and targeted engagements with seabed mapping organisations were used to develop a standard set of metadata for agencies to define spatial Areas of Interest (AOI). The standard metadata were used in a prototype prioritisation framework that allows users to transparently and consistently rank and prioritise survey work or data delivery processes. The prioritisation is then based on rankings established by defined sets of criteria. A web-based AOI submission tool and mapping publication service was then developed for these defined areas as part of the AusSeabed Survey Coordination Tool. Adoption of this tool facilitates the development of an interim national areas of interest product to inform future survey planning. This product supports both the needs of Parks Australia's network Science Plans, and consideration of information needs for Indigenous Protected Areas within Sea Country. Outputs • National Areas of Interest polygon & interactive map [dataset] • Code for Survey Coordination Tool [Github Repo] • Final Report with Value Prioritisation Framework [written]
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The AusSeabed Survey Coordination Tool is a web-based tool that provides a central location for, and improve consistency in, the specification of bathymetric data acquisition for scientific research purposes in the Australian marine estate. It was developed to support more coordinated planning of bathymetric, seabed mapping and marine biodiversity data acquisition, recognising that these data are time-consuming and costly to collect and that future survey effort should be directed toward areas of shared end-user priority. This record describes the source code and associated mapping services for the AusSeabed Survey Coordination Tool, including the front-end submission tool and WMS/WFS services used to publish submitted spatial information. The tool was developed by Geoscience Australia and FrontierSI in collaboration with the broader seabed mapping community, supported by NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.2. The Survey Coordination Tool supports three key functions; 1) Survey planning: allows the marine research community to publicise planned surveys by submitting a spatial outline of the intended survey area, target data types, survey focus, chief investigator contact details and anticipated survey dates. Once published, these survey plans are visible through the upcoming surveys spatial layer on the AusSeabed portal. 2) Submission of Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP) requests: the tool hosts the online form for survey requests to the Australian Hydrographic Office for consideration under the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Programme. 3) Areas of Interest submission: allows users to describe their seabed mapping or biodiversity characterisation data needs with spatial context. These submissions help identify regions of mutual interest, support collaborative multi-disciplinary survey planning, and inform high-value survey activities priorities for legacy data release. The current maintained source code is available from: https://github.com/ausseabed/survey-request-and-planning-tool The front-end of the tool is accessible to registered users at: https://coordination.ausseabed.gov.au This record provides a static archival snapshot of the source code associated with activities supported by NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.2. For the most current version of the source code, please refer to the GitHub repository.