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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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NSW seabed reef extent derived from marine lidar, multibeam and aerial imagery

Rocky reef polygons were delineated from bathymetry data for the NSW seabed. Bathymetry data was sourced from marine lidar data, multibeam echosounder data and aerial imagery. Reef polygons were extracted from the seabed landforms polygons for the statewide marine lidar and multibeam surveys for Wollongong and Shellharbour (See below for associated SEED records). For the remaining areas, reef polygons were sourced from the ‘NSW subtidal marine habitat layer’ on SEED which included reef polygons manually digitised from multibeam surveys acquired from 2005-2017.

Sources of reef polygons: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-seabed-landforms-derived-from-marine-lidar-data-2022 https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/wollongong-seabed-landforms-derived-from-mbes-data-2022 https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/shellharbour-seabed-landforms-derived-from-mbes-data-2022 https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-marine-habitat-data

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Metadata Summary What is metadata?

Field Value
Language English
Edition 1
Purpose Coastal and marine management and research
Frequency of change As needed
Keywords MARINE,MARINE-Coasts,MARINE-Geology-and-Geophysics,MARINE-Reefs
Metadata Date 2023-09-15
Date of Asset Creation 2023-09-01
Date of Asset Publication 2023-09-21
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Geospatial Topic
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2005-01-01 - 2018-12-01
Datum GDA 2020 / MGA Zone 56
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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 2023"