Australian Surface Hydrology WMS

This service provides Australian surface hydrology, including natural and man-made features such as water courses (including directional flow paths), lakes, dams and other water bodies. The information was derived from the Surface Hydrology database, with a nominal scale of 1:250,000. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-05-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2017-12-07T23:52:06
Date (Revision)
2020-05-05T06:13:47
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/100233

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Crossman, S.

 1
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
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

  • surface water

Theme

  • hydrology

Theme

  • watercourse

Theme

  • river

Theme

  • drainage

Theme

  • canal

Theme

  • lake

Theme

  • reservoir

Theme

  • watercourse area

Theme

  • dam

Theme

  • waterpoint

Theme

  • topography

Service

  • web service

Place

  • Australia

Service

  • WMS

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

1.3.0

Service Version

1.1.1

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

GetCapabilities

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The GetCapabilities operation is used to obtain service metadata, which is a machine-readable (and human-readable) description of the server's information content and acceptable request parameter values.

Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/services/Surface_Hydrology/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

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

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

 Voice
OnLine resource

Australian Surface Hydrology WMS

Australian Surface Hydrology WMS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WMS

Resource lineage

Statement

This service is a combination of three previous services - AusHydro, AusHydro_WM and NFRIPCatchments. Further details of the data lineage can be found with the associated datasets.

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/57ef47a0-92ae-4d73-995b-9d9aa27c6810

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/100233

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/57ef47a0-92ae-4d73-995b-9d9aa27c6810

Date info (Creation)
2016-02-10T09:49:39
Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T05:51:26

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

 
 

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Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

WMS canal dam drainage hydrology lake reservoir river surface water topography watercourse watercourse area waterpoint web service
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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