WATER_SDE.diwa_type_criteria

QLD Environmental Protection Agency, June 2005.\\nVIC Department of Sustainability and Environment, April 2004.\\nNSW Department of Environment and Conservation, March 2004\\nAustralian Surveying and Land Information Group (1994) TOPO-250K;\\nDepartment of the Environment and Heritage (1998) CAPAD V2.0;\\nDepartment of the Environment and Heritage (1997) National Estate - Important Wetlands;\\nANCA (1996) A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia 2nd ed;\\nDepartment of the Environment and Heritage (2001) A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia 3rd ed.

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Departmental Deed

Directory of Important Wetlands spatial data may be distributed to third parties on request, and in accordance with the various licence agreements of State agencies who may have supplied components of the data. \\n\\nA Department data licence must be agreed to and the data is not to be used for commercial purposes by third parties.\\n\\nThe data may also be downloaded from the Department website after the completion of an online licence agreement.\\n\\nProducts derived from this dataset should display acknowledgements of the data provider and where relevant the State agencies who may have supplied components of the data used in that product. The Australian Government Department of the Environment is to be acknowledged as the custodian of the overall Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia spatial dataset. \\n\\nStatements of acknowledgement to be used for components of various State supplied data can be found in the Acknowledgements section of this metadata statement.\\n\\nDue to data being compiled from various sources, care needs to be taken when using the data to ensure any restrictions applying to data sources are met.

For the identification of wetland boundaries or locations in regard to the compliance of activities with relevant State legislation, the relevant State authority should be contacted to obtain the most recent and accurate boundary information available.

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This version of the Directory of Important Wetlands has been developed to include information regarding wetland type and criteria, which allows greater access to wetland information for non-technical users of this dataset. This version of the Directory contains the same wetland boundaries as the full dataset maintained by the Department, but has been dissolved to a multipart polygon coverage on fileds WNAME (Wetland Name) and REFCODE (Reference Code). This has reduced the total number of records in the attribute table from around 30 000 to around 900.\\n\\nThe wetland type and criteria for listing codes have been added to the attribute table to allow users of this dataset to identify important ecological characteristics of each wetland without having to seperately refer to the full Directory of Important Wetlands textual database maintained within the Department as an oracle database. \\n\\nThe full textual database giving further detals on each wetland can be accessed on the internet at http://www.environment.gov.au/water/wetlands/database/index.html\\n\\nThe coverage has been largely derived from the TOPO250K.WATERBOD coverage (AUSLIG, 1992). \\n\\nA significant portion of some of the wetland boundaries for each state have also been supplied directly from the relevant state agencies. These include the QLD Environmental Protection Agency, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, and the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment.\\n\\nData supplied from State agencies may have been collected using different collection methods. These may include remotely sensed images and digitized boundaries from topographic maps or aerial photos.\\n\\nFor the identification of wetland boundaries or locations in regard to the compliance of activities with relevant State legislation, the relevant State authority should be contacted to obtain the most recent and accurate boundary information available.\\n\\nIn general the accuracy of wetland boundaries may be taken to be approximately +/- 250m in most cases. \\n\\nIn considering the accuracy of the wetland boundaries, users of this data should be aware of the dynamic nature of wetland boundaries and their likelihood of experiencing significant alteration over time due to climatic conditions.\\n\\nAdditional datasets used in compiling the Directory of Important Wetlands spatial data include:\\n\\nCollaborative Australian Protected Areas Database CAPAD (Version 2.0, 1998)\\n\\nNational Estate, Important Wetlands Tasmania (WETLANDSREP97)\\n\\nBUFFERED CENTROIDS: derived from coordinates contained in the Wetlands Inventory 2nd Ed. (ANCA, 1996) & 3rd Ed. (EA, 2001).\\n\\nLocation of Cook Island Nature Reserve off the North NSW coast updated to match NSW Dept of Environment and Climat Change data.

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ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification

2007

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