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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Marine Seabed Habitat Mapping (HABMAP) Extent, New South Wales

The spatial extent of seabed habitat data collected & collated for New South Wales Coastal waters. The HABMAP program has provided fine scale benthic habitat information for NSW State Waters. Targeted areas use surveyed bathymetric and backscatter layers for Habitat classification. Data is collected using a pole mounted Geoswath 125KHZ Interferometric sidescan sonar system. Data are tide, sound velocity and motion corrected and are accurate to the sub-metre level (DGPS). The shape file presented here is a collation of the spatial extent of the area of mapped sea floor habitat data from a variety of sources including; the OEH HABMAP program, digitised from aerial photographs and plotted external high resolution bathymetric data as well as historical habitat data.

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Language English
Alternative Title Seabed habitat maps, NSW
Edition v1
Purpose This dataset illustrates the specific spatial coverage of OEHs seabed habitat data.
Frequency of change As needed
Keywords MARINE,ECOLOGY Habitat,MARINE Reefs,OCEANOGRAPHY Physical,BATHYMETRY,MARINE Biology,MARINE Mapping,MARINE Classification
Metadata Date 2015-05-18
Date of Asset Creation 2015-05-18
Date of Asset Publication 2015-01-05
Date of Next Update 2015-11-01
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 100000
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Complex
Object count
86
Geospatial Topic Boundaries
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2005-01-01 - 2015-01-05
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2015"