Australian Submarine Canyons WFS

The Australian Submarine Canyons service identifies the location of 753 submarine canyons surrounding mainland Australia and its external territories, with associated metrics.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-12-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2017-12-07T23:52:15
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/103261

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Huang, Z.

 Place and Communities Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Theme

  • marine

  • marine geoscience

  • seabed

  • geomorphology

  • oceans

Product

  • marine data

Project

  • NERP Marine Diversity Hub

Service

  • web service

  • WFS

Place

  • Australia

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Service Version

2.0.0

Service Version

1.1.0

Service Version

1.0.0

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

GetCapabilities

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/services/Submarine_Canyons/MapServer/WFSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS

Name

SERVICE

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory SERVICE parameter indicates which of the available service types at a particular server is being invoked. When invoking GetCapabilities on a WMS the value WMS shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

REQUEST

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory REQUEST parameter indicates which service operation is being invoked. To invoke the GetCapabilities operation, the value GetCapabilities shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

VERSION

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The optional VERSION parameter indicates the service type version number to use. In response to a GetCapabilities request that does not specify a version number, the server shall respond with the highest version it supports.

Optionality
true
Repeatability
false
Operates On

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

 Voice
OnLine resource

Australian Submarine Canyons WFS

Australian Submarine Canyons WFS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WFS

Resource lineage

Statement

The service contains the national submarine canyon dataset obtained from the NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub research. This is the second iteration of this web service which was formerly known as National_Submarine_Canyons_of_Australia. The web service was revised in 2016 as part of an infrastructure platform upgrade.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/1a7d8ad9-9d2a-4697-9253-32e2b22f0acf

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/103261

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1a7d8ad9-9d2a-4697-9253-32e2b22f0acf

Date info (Creation)
2025-06-24T06:04:11.913Z
Date info (Creation)
2016-02-10T09:49:39
Date info (Revision)
2025-06-24T06:04:36.206Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

NERP Marine Diversity Hub WFS geomorphology marine marine data marine geoscience oceans seabed web service
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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