Authors / CoAuthors
Howard, F.J.F. | Nichols, S.
Abstract
Browse Shelf reef polygons were manually digitized from multibeam echosounder datasets collected on marine survey GA0345/GA0346/TAN1411 in October/November 2014. Reef areas were defined as exposed, hard substrate that are often raised above the surrounding seafloor. The continental shelf was defined using the 200 m depth contour. They were mapped using bathymetry and backscatter data along with bathymetric derivatives including; slope, hillshaded bathymetry and contours. Features were mapped at a scale of 1:10 000. This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.
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dataset
eCat Id
101465
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Keywords
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- reef
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- marine environmental baseline
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- gis
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- geomorphology
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- key ecological feature
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- continental shelf
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- Western Australia
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Publication Date
2016-10-10T00:00:00
Creation Date
2016-08-12T00:00:00
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This dataset was derived from multibeam echosounder data collected during marine survey GA0345/GA0346/TAN1411 in October/November 2014. Features were manually digitised in ArcGIS 10.2 using hillshaded bathymetry, backscatter and slope datasets. Reef features were included if they were shallower than the 200 m depth contour derived from the 2009 Australian Bathymetry Topography Grid, https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/67703. This dataset was produced under the National Environmental Science Program - Project D3 evaluating and monitoring the status of marine biodiversity assets on the continental shelf.
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Extents
[-13.495765767, -12.860755096, 123.624956303, 124.670481302]
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Spatial Resolution
1:10 000
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