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RETIRED Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies
<b>This record has been superseded by eCat 148920 DEA Waterbodies v3.0 (Landsat) with approval from N.Mueller on 01/02/2024
This record was retired 15/09/2022 with approval from S.Oliver as it has been superseded by eCat 146197 DEA Waterbodies (Landsat) </b>
<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies uses Geoscience Australia’s archive of over 30 years of Landsat satellite imagery to identify where almost 300,000 waterbodies are in the Australian landscape and tells us the wet surface area within those waterbodies.
<p>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.
<p>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 3125m2 (5 Landsat pixels).
<p>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.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-12-11
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-12-10T23:48:16
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-02-02T22:17:33
- Date (Deprecated)
- 2022-09-15
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/132814
Identifier
- Codespace
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Digital Obejct Identifier
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian Geoscience Australia
- Status
- Retired
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Pham, D.
Resource provider Environmental Geoscience Division
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1986-08-16 2017-07-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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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
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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- Keywords
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water
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DEA
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Digital Earth Australia
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satellite imaging
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
-
4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v3.0
- Citation identifier
- 148920
- Citation identifier
- 044092ba-b5be-467b-b4dc-23fcd60c4c33
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v2
- Citation identifier
- 146197
- Citation identifier
- 5492a854-71e1-4caf-b19f-0becfce338ea
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v3.0
Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies v3.0
- Distribution format
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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This product builds upon the Water Observations from Space dataset, details of which are available here: https://cmi.ga.gov.au/wo_25_2.1.5
The code used in the development of this product is available on GitHub: https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/dea-waterbodies
Record retired 15/9/22 per approval TRIMM D2022-3489
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 / Australian Albers (EPSG:3577)
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/7c249ffc-4bd3-4c80-97d2-19b34f6c88cd
- Title
-
GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Pham, D.
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/132814
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-06-03T06:34:37.08Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-06-03T06:34:33.253Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-04-23T04:24:27.372Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-04-22T04:02:43.471Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-04-22T04:02:16.274Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-12-10T23:26:07
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-06-03T06:34:37.08Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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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
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/132814