Geomorphic Features 2006

The data set provides outlines for the maximum extent of geomorphic units for Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone, including the offshore island territories, but not the Australian Antarctic Territory. These data were compiled as part of Geoscience Australia's integrated digital information system to provide improved accessibility and knowledge relating to the environmental management of Australia's oceans resources. The geomorphic units are to be used as surrogates for benthic habitats and can be best applied to the construction of bioregionalisations of the seabed. The data set also includes the name of units in the attribute table, where known, the source(s) of the names, feature codes and province codes as well as the area and perimeter of each unit. The data are accompanied by Geoscience Australia Record 2003/30. Updated October 2006.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2006-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/69797

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Heap, A.

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Author

Harris, P.

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Author

Sbaffi, L.

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Author

Passlow, V.

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Author

Fellows, M.

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

EGD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • GIS Dataset

  • National

Theme

  • geomorphology

Theme

  • National dataset

Theme

  • marine

Keywords

  • AU-EEZ

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

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
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Web Feature Service

Link to Web Feature Service

OnLine resource

Web Map Service

Link to Web Map Service

OnLine resource

File download

Download the file (shp)

OnLine resource

Related product

Related product: Geomorphology of the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seafloor

OnLine resource

Related product

Related product: Geomorphic Features of the Continental Margin of Australia

Resource lineage

Statement

The geomorphic features were captured in 2002 as part of a program run by Geoscience Australia and the National Oceans office to create a spatial inventory of benthic habitats for Australia's marine jurisdiction. The

geomorphic features are defined by the International Hydrographic Office (IHO, 2001), and were identified using a 250 m spatial resolution bathymetry model with reference to previously published geological studies.

In most cases, the feature boundaries corresponded to already published boundaries or were defined based on obvious bathymetric features, supplemented by high-resolution seismic reflection and sedimentary data.

Where appropriate, the feature boundaries and classifications are consistent with United Nations Law of the Sea boundaries. The identification of shelf valleys and submarine canyons on the continental slope was aided by the use of predicted drainage maps. All the features were identified on the contour and false colour maps and drawn by hand onto transparent compilation maps. When completed, the compilation maps were scanned, georeferenced and the separate polygons were digitised and stored as an ARC/GIS shape file. Care was taken where separate maps sheets joined to ensure that features were correctly identified and retained their identity across the boundaries.

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Dataset
Description

Source data not available.

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/a05f7892-eeab-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/69797

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-eeab-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:19:56
Date info (Creation)
2009-11-12T00:00:00

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
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W


Keywords

National dataset geomorphology marine

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