Dataset
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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NSW Wetlands

The purpose of this project was to map the wetlands across New South Wales. Wetlands were identified using a combination of classification of spectral classes of Landsat MSS and TM imagery and ancillary wetland information to create information classes of broad wetland groups (floodplain wetlands, freshwater lakes, saline lakes, reservoirs, estuarine wetlands and coastal lagoons and lakes). The data will then be used to assess the wetland resource in each catchment.

For more details refer to: Kingsford, R., Brandis, K., Thomas, R., Crighton, P., Knowles, E. and Gale, E., 2004. Classifying landform at broad spatial scales: the distribution and conservation of wetlands in New South Wales, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 55, 17-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF03075

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Metadata Summary What is metadata?

Field Value
Language English
Edition 1
Purpose Wetland distribution
Frequency of change Not planned
Keywords WATER-Wetlands,Wetlands
Metadata Date 2003-01-01
Date of Asset Creation 2003-01-01
Date of Asset Revision 2011-08-04
Date of Asset Publication 2010-07-23
Date of Next Update 2010-01-10
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 0
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Curve
Object count
1
Geospatial Topic Inland waters
Extent

Dataset extent

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Temporal Coverage From 1987-06-01 - 2003-05-01
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 2010"
Groups Area Analysis Tool: Environmentally sensitive lands in NSW