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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies Version 3
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 (DEA) 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.
DEA 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.
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.
More information on using this dataset can be accessed on the DEA Knowledge Hub at <a href=" https://docs.dea.ga.gov.au/data/product/dea-waterbodies-landsat/?tab=overview">https://docs.dea.ga.gov.au/data/product/dea-waterbodies-landsat/?tab=overview</a>. Refer to the research paper Krause et al. 2021 for additional details: <a href=" https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13081437">https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13081437</a>
The update from version 2 to version 3.0 of the DEA Waterbodies product and service was created through a collaboration between Geoscience Australia, the National Aerial Firefighting Centre, Natural Hazards Research Australia, and FrontierSI to make the product more useful in hazard applications.
Geoscience Australia, the National Aerial Firefighting Centre, Natural Hazards Research Australia, and FrontierSI advise that the information published by this service comprises general statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, FrontierSI, Geoscience Australia, the National Aerial Firefighting Centre and Natural Hazards Research Australia (including its employees and consultants) are excluded from all liability to any person for any consequences, including but not limited to all losses, damages, costs, expenses and any other compensation, arising directly or indirectly from using this publication (in part or in whole) and any information or material contained in it.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-11-06
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-02-01T00:43:54
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/148920
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/148920
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Dunn, B.
Internal Contact Author Krause, C.
Internal Contact Author Newey, V.
Internal Contact Author Lymburner, L.
Internal Contact Author Alger, M.J.
External Contact Author Adams, C.
External Contact Author Yuan, F.
External Contact Author Ma, S.
External Contact Author Barzinpour, A.
Internal Contact Author Ayers, D.
Internal Contact Author McKenna, C.
External Contact Editor Mueller, N.
Internal Contact Author Schenk, L.
Space Division Internal Contact
- Purpose
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Information about the extent and location of surface water
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- On going
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Space Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Dunn, B.
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- Geoscientific information
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- Time period
- 1986-08-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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DEA – Digital Earth Australia
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DEA
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analysis ready data
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surface reflectance
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Landsat
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Earth Observation
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satellite imagery
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water
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inland water
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Earth and space science informatics
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Surface water hydrology
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023
Resource constraints
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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 derived from
- Title
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DEPRECATED Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies Version 2
- Citation identifier
- 146197
- Citation identifier
- 5492a854-71e1-4caf-b19f-0becfce338ea
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Was informed by
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DEPRECATED Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies Version 1
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- 132814
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- English
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- UTF8
Distribution Information
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice facsimile
- OnLine resource
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Link to DEA waterbodies data
Link to DEA waterbodies data
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Resource lineage
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<div>This is version 3.0 of the DEA Waterbodies polygons. </div><div><br></div><div>Version 2 of DEA Waterbodies can be accessed here: https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/146197</div><div><br></div><div>Version 1 can be accessed here: https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/132814 </div><div><br></div><div>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 and https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/dea-conflux</div>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 / Australian Albers (EPSG:3577)
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/044092ba-b5be-467b-b4dc-23fcd60c4c33
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GeoNetwork UUID
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- UTF8
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Dunn, B.
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- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
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- eCatId/148920
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-04-22T04:07:56.852Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-04-22T04:05:17.026Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-04-22T04:04:43.604Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-10-31T02:37:27
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-04-22T04:10:10.218Z
Metadata standard
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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
- http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551