DEPRECATED Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies Version 2

<b>This record has been deprecated by eCat 148920 DEA Waterbodies Version 3.0 with approval from A.Metlenko on 01/04/2025.</b>


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
Date (Deprecated)
2025-04-01
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
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Purpose

Information about the extent and location of surface water

Status
Deprecated
Point of contact
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

30 m pixel resolution

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Inland waters

Extent

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W


Temporal extent

Time period
1986-08-15 2024-10-24
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

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

  • Surface Processes

  • EARTH SCIENCES

  • PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE

  • Surfacewater Hydrology

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Associated resource

Association Type
Was informed by
Title

DEPRECATED Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies Version 1

Citation identifier
132814

Citation identifier
7c249ffc-4bd3-4c80-97d2-19b34f6c88cd

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/132814

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Informed
Title

Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v3.0

Website

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Download the data (shp) [43 MB]

Download the data (shp) [43 MB]

Distribution format

  • shp

Resource lineage

Statement

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.


Waterbodies Version 2 was deprecated by eCat 148920 DEA Waterbodies Version 3, which provides users with additional supporting data for the most recent observations (available on the web service only), improved metadata availability, and pipeline improvements. These updates were 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. Version 2 has been assessed as a record and a disposal authority determined (Geoscience Information Products – Production – Entry 10307). Details of the assessment and advice are available in Content Manager (D2025-14462). The disposal authority can be viewed at https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-12/agency-ra-2005-00233013.pdf.

Source

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 / Australian Albers (EPSG:3577)

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/5492a854-71e1-4caf-b19f-0becfce338ea

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
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

Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v2

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/146197

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5492a854-71e1-4caf-b19f-0becfce338ea

Date info (Creation)
2025-04-22T04:20:51.932Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-04-22T04:11:15.759Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-04-22T04:03:52.855Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-04-22T02:48:32.352Z
Date info (Creation)
2021-12-17T00:57:31
Date info (Revision)
2025-04-22T04:21:21.78Z

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

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE Surface Processes Surfacewater Hydrology

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