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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Nearshore subtidal marine reef systems and soft sediment mapping, New South Wales

Near-shore reef boundaries mapped from available aerial photography over a range of years and scales. The mapped reef boundaries represent the greatest extent of reef observed over multiple years ie. mapped reef area includes reefs prone to intermittent sand inundation. Unrectified photos were used. Mapping has been conducted in several stages with the current version 5 being extended to include the coast between Port Jackson and Newcastle. Clarence River and Tweed Heads. Mapping is effectively complete with about 0.2% of the NSW coast remaining unmapped due to a number of reasons - unavailability of suitable aerial photos; poor visibility through the water column in deep nearshore zones (eg Sydney Heads south). This mapping was conducted by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, and is owed jointly by NPWS, NSW Fisheries, NSW Marine Parks Authority, NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation and Environment Australia. Aerial photos used in this process were provided by NSW Dept of Land and Water Conservation's Specialist Coastal and Floods Unit.

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Language English
Alternative Title NearshoreSubtidalMarineReffMapping2002.shp
Edition 1
Purpose This coverage is intended for used in regional level marine conservation assessment. It was prepared using very low cost techniques (ie. unrectified API) and should not be relied upon for navigation purposes. THIS DATA IS NOT SUITABLE FOR NAVIGATION PURPOSES.
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords ECOLOGY-Habitat,FISHERIES,FISHERIES-Marine,MARINE,MARINE-Biology,MARINE-Coasts,MARINE-Reefs,OCEANOGRAPHY
Metadata Date 2002-05-30
Date of Asset Creation 2002-05-30
Date of Asset Revision 2002-05-30
Date of Asset Publication 2012-11-12
Date of Next Update 2002-05-30
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 25000
Geospatial Topic Biota
NSW Place Name NSW Coast
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 1940-10-18 - 2000-10-18
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 2012"