Product catalogue
Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v2
Up to date information about the extent and location of surface water provides all Australians with a common understanding of this valuable and increasingly scarce resource.
Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies shows the wet surface area of waterbodies as estimated from satellites. It does not show depth, volume, purpose of the waterbody, nor the source of the water.
Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies uses Geoscience Australia’s archive of over 30 years of Landsat satellite imagery to identify where over 300,000 waterbodies are in the Australian landscape and tells us the wet surface area within those waterbodies.
It supports users to understand and manage water across Australia. For example, users can gain insights into the severity and spatial distribution of drought, or identify potential water sources for aerial firefighting during bushfires.
The tool uses a water classification for every available Landsat satellite image and maps the locations of waterbodies across Australia. It provides a timeseries of wet surface area for waterbodies that are present more than 10% of the time and are larger than 2700m2 (3 Landsat pixels).
The tool indicates changes in the wet surface area of waterbodies. This can be used to identify when waterbodies are increasing or decreasing in wet surface area.
Refer to Krause et al. 2021 for full details of this dataset. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13081437
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Identification info
- Date (Released)
- 2021-12-17
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-01-27T04:17:58
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/146197
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/146197
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- Purpose
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Information about the extent and location of surface water
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Krause, C.
PSCD Internal Contact Resource provider Place, Space and Communities Division
External Contact
- Spatial representation type
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
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30 m pixel resolution
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Inland waters
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1986-08-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Website
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Surfacewater Hydrology
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE
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EARTH SCIENCES
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Surface Processes
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Addressee
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details User Any
- Use constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Was informed by
- Title
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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies
- Citation identifier
- 132814
- Citation identifier
- 7c249ffc-4bd3-4c80-97d2-19b34f6c88cd
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Download the data (shp) [43 MB]
Download the data (shp) [43 MB]
- Distribution format
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shp
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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This is version 2 of DEA Waterbodies. Version 1 can be accessed here: https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/132814
This product builds upon the DEA Water Observations dataset, details of which are available here: https://cmi.ga.gov.au/data-products/dea/613/dea-water-observations-landsat. The code used in the development of this product is available on GitHub: https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/dea-waterbodies.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 / Australian Albers (EPSG:3577)
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/5492a854-71e1-4caf-b19f-0becfce338ea
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Owner Krause, C
Geoscience Australia Internal Contact Point of contact Krause, C.
PSCD Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v2
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/146197
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-12-17T00:57:31
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-12-17T00:57:31
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551