Australian Estuaries Database - CAMRIS

CAMRIS incorporates the Australian estuarine database, which includes the National Estuaries Study (Bucher and Saenger 1989). Attributes include location, name, climatic variables, run-off coefficients, land use, flood frequency, water quality, habitat types including seagrass/mangrove/saltmarsh, fisheries/conservation/amenity values, administration, literature and threats.

CAMRIS, standing for the Coastal and Marine Resources Information System, is a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology is the custodian of the 'coastal' subset of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS). Coastal ARIS became the core dataset of the CAMRIS project. The Coastal ARIS database was developed from a coastal inventory developed by Galloway et al. This inventory contained relatively large scale data including landform, geology, vegetation, soil, land use, climate and population information for each of 3027 3x10km sections around the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania, but excluding offshore islands.

NOTE for Shapefile version:

Item names in the ArcView Shapefile for download have been altered due to a 10 character fieldname limitation in the DBF file.

Estuary.shp

RUNOFF_COEF becomes R_off_coef

MAX_TIDAL_RANGE becomes Mx_tid_rng

SAND-MUD_AREA becomes Sdmud_area

MANGROVE_AREA becomes Mgrve_area

SEAGRASS_AREA becomes Sgras_area

SALTMARSH_AREA becomes Smrsh_area

ESTUARINE_AREA becomes Estua_area

GALLOWAY_SECTION becomes Gallwy_sct

LANDUSE_CODE becomes Lnduse_cde

FLOOD_REGIME becomes Flood_rgme

MANGROVE_COVER becomes Mgrove_cvr

SEAGRASS_COVER becomes Sgrass_cvr

SALTMARSH_COVER becomes Smarsh_cvr

FISH_THREAT becomes Fsh_threat

CONS_THREAT becomes Con_threat

AMENITY_VALUE becomes Amenity_vl

Date (Creation): 1995-01-01

Date (Revision): 1996-07-30

Identifier: https://data.ozcoasts.org.au/geonetworkFE476606-9BD6-49BA-BF1F-870323BBB7A2

Identifier: https://data.ozcoasts.org.au/geonetwork/FE476606-9BD6-49BA-BF1F-870323BBB7A2

Custodian

Australian Government Department of the Environment

Water Data Manager

GPO Box 787

Canberra

ACT

2601

02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://www.environment.gov.au/

Publisher

Australian Government Department of the Environment

Metadata Publisher

GPO Box 787

CANBERRA

ACT

2601

(02) 6274 1111
(02) 6274 1333
http://www.environment.gov.au/

Presentation form: Digital map

Other citation details: CSIRO (2015): Australian Estuaries Database - CAMRIS. v1.CSIRO. Data Collection. 10.4225/08/551484A8DE81A

Credit: CSIRO Australia

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Australian Government Department of the Environment

Water Data Manager

GPO Box 787

Canberra

ACT

2601

02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://www.environment.gov.au/

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Version: 1

ANZLIC Search Words

FLORA
ECOLOGY Landscape
MARINE Estuaries

Keywords

Offline Data

Access constraints: License

Other constraints: CC - Attribution (CC BY)

Access constraints: License

Other constraints: This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 1000000

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota

Environment description: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.1.3497

Supplemental Information: published externally

Reference system identifier: EPSG
/
4283
/
8.2.6

Topology level: Geometry only

Geometric object type: Point

Geometric object count: 1566

Distributor

Distributor

Australian Government Department of the Environment

GPO Box 787

Canberra

ACT

2601

02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://intspat01.ris.environment.gov.au/fed

Name: Shapefile

Version: 1

OnLine resource: 002

OnLine resource: Link to data (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

OnLine resource: Creative Commons licence applicable to this dataset (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

OnLine resource: acef-default:Estuaries (CAMRIS) (
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Revision): 2015-04-09

Explanation: Assumed to be correct. +/- one degree.

Pass: Yes

Conformance result

Date (Revision): 2015-04-09

Explanation: The estuaries coverage contains 1566 points and the following attributes:

ESTUARY_NO : Inventory number, contains a letter prefix to denote State in which estuary lies. Estuaries are numbered clockwise around the continent.

NAME : Name of major input stream used to identify an estuary unless the estuary itself is named.

GEO_ZONE : Set of 12 coastal geographical zones (ACIUCN 1986)

CLIM_ZONE : Set of 3 named climatic zones

CATCH_AREA : Catchment Area (sq km)

AVE_ANN_RF : Mean annual rainfall (mm), recorded at station nearest estuary

RUNOFF_COEF : Runoff figure, best approximation to a catchment average rainfall, usually the average value for the respective drainage basin

MAX_TIDAL_RANGE : Maximum tidal range (m)

WATER_AREA : Water area (sq km)

SAND-MUD_AREA : Sand and Mud Area (sq km)

MANGROVE_AREA : Area of Mangroves (sq km)

SEAGRASS_AREA : Area of Seagrass (sq km)

SALTMARSH_AREA : Area of Saltmarsh (sq km)

ESTUARINE_AREA : Est area of estuary (sq km)

GALLOWAY_SECTION : Galloway section number - each 3x10km strip is numbered, clockwise around the coast.

LONGITUDE : Longitude of estuary site (dd)

LATITUDE : Latitude of estuary site (dd)

LANDUSE_CODE : % catchment clearance

FLOOD_REGIME : Frequency of flooding

WATER-QUAL : Subjective assessment of water quality only

MANGROVE_COVER : Degree Mangrove cover

SEAGRASS_COVER : Degree Seagrass cover

SALTMARSH_COVER : Degree Saltmarsh cover

FISH_VALUE : Importance of an estuary as a commercial or amateur fishing ground

FISH_THREAT : Threats to fisheries

CONS_VALUE : Qualitative conservation values

CONS_THREAT : Threats to conservation

AMENITY_VALUE : Amenities value

ECO_STATUS : Effects of human activity

RESEARCH : Depth of information used to assess estuary

ADMIN : Statutory classifications that restricts use.

Pass: Yes

Conformance result

Date (Revision): 2015-04-09

Explanation: Coverage is topologically correct. No particuler tests conducted by ERIN.

Pass: Yes

Conformance result

Date (Revision): 2015-04-09

Explanation: Complete for the Australian continent.

Pass: Yes

Statement: ERIN: Projected the estuaries point coverage to geographics with the WGS84 spheroid. The coverage has been attributed with information taken from the Bucher and Saenger (1989) National estuaries inventory.

CSIRO: Data were stored in VAX files, MS-DOS R-base files and as a microcomputer dataset accessible under the LUPIS (Land Use Planning Information System) land allocation package. CAMRIS was established using SPANS Geographic Information System (GIS) software running under a UNIX operating system on an IBM RS 6000 platform. A summary of data processing follows:

1. r-BASE: Information imported into r-BASE from a number of different sources (ie Digitised, scanned, CD-ROM, NOAA World Ocean Atlas, Atlas of Australian Soils, NOAA GEODAS archive and Complete book of Australian Weather).

2. From the information held in r-BASE a BASE Table was generated incorporating specific fields.

3. SPANS environment: Works on creating a UNIVERSE with a geographic projection - Equidistant Conic (Simple Conic) and Lambert Conformal Conic, Spheroid: International Astronomical Union 1965 (Australia/Sth America); the Lower left corner and the longitude and latitude of the centre point.

4. BASE Table imported into SPANS and a BASE Map generated.

5. Categorise Maps - created from the BASE map and table by selecting out specified fields, a desired window size (ie continental or continent and oceans) and resolution level (ie the quad tree level).

6. Rasterise maps specifying key parameters such as: number of bits, resolution (quad tree level 8 lowest - 16 highest) and the window size (usually 00 or cn).

7. Gifs produced using categorised maps with a title, legend, scale and long/lat grid.

8. Supplied to ERIN with .bil; .hdr; .gif; Arc export files .e00; and text files .asc and .txt formats.

9. The reference coastline for CAMRIS was the mean high water mark (AUSLIG 1:100 000 topographic map series).

File identifier: FE476606-9BD6-49BA-BF1F-870323BBB7A2 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Hierarchy level name: dataset

Date stamp: 2021-01-19T18:25:46

Metadata standard name: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification

Metadata standard version: 2007

Point of contact

Australian Government Department of the Environment

Water Data Manager

GPO Box 787

Canberra

ACT

2601

02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://www.environment.gov.au/

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