Geoscience Australia Flood Study Summary Web Services

The Flood Study Summary Services support discovery and retrieval of flood hazard information. The services return metadata and data for flood studies and flood inundation maps held in the 'Australian Flood Studies Database'. The same information is available through a user interface at http://www.ga.gov.au/flood-study-web/.


A 'flood study' is a comprehensive technical investigation of flood behaviour. It defines the nature and extent flood hazard across the floodplain by providing information on the extent, level and velocity of floodwaters and on the distribution of flood flows. Flood studies are typically commissioned by government, and conducted by experts from specialist engineering firms or government agencies. Key outputs from flood studies include detailed reports, and maps showing inundation, depth, velocity and hazard for events of various likelihoods.


The services are deliverables fom the National Flood Risk Information Project. The main aim of the project is to make flood risk information accessible from a central location. Geoscience Australia will facilitate this through the development of the National Flood Risk Information Portal. Over the four years the project will launch a new phase of the portal prior to the commencement of each annual disaster season. Each phase will increase the amount of flood risk information that is publicly accessible and increase stakeholder capability in the production and use of flood risk information.


flood-study-search returns summary layers and links to rich metadata about flood maps and the studies that produced them. flood-study-map returns layers for individual flood inundation maps. Typically a single layer shows the flood inundation for a particular likelihood or historical event in a flood study area.


To retrieve flood inundation maps from these services, we recommend:

1. querying flood-study-search to obtain flood inundation map URIs, then

2. using the flood inundation map URIs to retrieve maps separately from flood-study-map.


The ownership of each flood study remains with the commissioning organisation and/or author as indicated with each study, and users of the database should refer to the reports themselves to determine any constraints in their usage.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2014-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/79139

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

 Canberra
Author

Geoscience Australia

 1
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Keywords

  • GIS Dataset

  • National

Theme

  • flood

Theme

  • WFS

Theme

  • WMS

Theme

  • hazards

Theme

  • surfacewater hydrology

Theme

  • urban design

Keywords

  • AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Natural Hazards

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

flood-study-map

Inundation map layers

OnLine resource

flood-study-search

Flood study and search layers

OnLine resource

Inundation map WMS (OGC version 1.3.0)

Inundation map WMS (OGC version 1.3.0)

OnLine resource

Inundation map WFS (OGC version 1.1.0)

Inundation map WFS (OGC version 1.1.0)

OnLine resource

Flood study and search WMS (OGC version 1.3.0)

Flood study and search WMS (OGC version 1.3.0)

OnLine resource

Flood study and search WFS (OGC version 1.1.0)

Flood study and search WFS (OGC version 1.1.0)

OnLine resource

Flood study and search WFS (OGC version 1.0.0)

Flood study and search WFS (OGC version 1.0.0)

OnLine resource

Flood study and search WFS (OGC version 2.0.0)

Flood study and search WFS (OGC version 2.0.0)

OnLine resource

Flood study and search WMS (OGC version 1.1.1)

Flood study and search WMS (OGC version 1.1.1)

OnLine resource

Inundation map WFS (OGC version 1.0.0)

Inundation map WFS (OGC version 1.0.0)

OnLine resource

Inundation map WFS (OGC version 2.0.0)

Inundation map WFS (OGC version 2.0.0)

OnLine resource

Inundation map WMS (OGC version 1.1.1)

Inundation map WMS (OGC version 1.1.1)

Resource lineage

Statement

This service returns metadata (information about the studies and maps) and data (the studies and maps themselves) for flood studies held in the Australian Flood Studies Database.


Metadata was created by Geoscience Australia, state and territory authorities, commissioning organisations and authors. It was directly entered to the Australian Flood Studies Database, or aggregated from other databases. Regardless of the source, metadata undergoes a rigorous quality check to ensure it correctly reflects the flood study and maps. A description of a quality check process is at http://www.ga.gov.au/hazards/flood/portal/national-flood-risk-information-portal/floods/share-flood-study-data.html.


Data was created by the commissioning organisation or author. The methodology for each flood study is described in the flood study report. The ownership of each Flood Study remains with the commissioning organisation and/or author as indicated with each study, and users of the service should refer to the reports themselves to determine additional usage constraints.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

This service returns metadata (information about the studies and maps) and data (the studies and maps themselves).


Metadata was created by Geoscience Australia, state and territory authorities, commissioning organisations and authors.


Data was created by the commissioning organisation or author. The ownership of each Flood Study remains with the commissioning organisation and/or author as indicated with each study, and users of the service should refer to the reports themselves to determine additional usage constraints.

Extent

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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/f3c130c6-b675-6208-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/79139

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/f3c130c6-b675-6208-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-22T08:33:16
Date info (Creation)
2014-03-04T00:00:00

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
S
E
W


Keywords

WFS WMS flood hazards surfacewater hydrology urban design

Provided by

Access to the portal

Associated resources

Not available