Land Units of South/East Bathurst Island

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Metadata
Citation
Description

Dataset Status
Data Quality
Contact Information
Data Dictionary
Supplementary Information

Metadata Details:

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Version:1.0

Date Metadata Extracted:2025-02-08

Date Metadata Last Updated:2015-05-27

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Citation

ANZLIC Identifier:2DBCB771204A06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE

Title:Land Units of South/East Bathurst Island

Citation Date:2000-01-14

Date Type:publication

Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security

Description

Abstract:

This land resources survey describes the polygon information on the map unit boundaries of the South East area of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory.
The survey was conducted in 1979-80 at scale 1:50 000 and covers an approximate area of 28,360ha.
The purpose of this survey was to identify land suitable for agriculture by determining the land resources present and to assess land capability for the required uses.

Core attributes describing the land units, as defined by this department, were added to the spatial dataset in November 2011.

ANZLIC Search Words:

biota

environment

geoscientificInformation

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

North Bounding Coordinate:-11.6698026

South Bounding Coordinate:-11.8310042

East Bounding Coordinate:130.6410611

West Bounding Coordinate:130.4234311

Dataset Status

Dataset ID:ANZNT0001000243

Language:English

Character Set: Latin 1

Progress:completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency:notPlanned

Data Currency Start Date:1979-10-01

Data Currency End Date:1979-12-31

Access Constraint:

Download the spatial data package (contains spatial data, maps and reports) via data.nt.gov.au/

You are licensed to use the DENR geospatial products on the terms and conditions set out in: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) at: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the licensed material, provided that you abide by the licence terms (including Attribution) and attribute the licensed material using the statement:

Supplied by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Copyright Northern Territory Government.

Data Quality

Lineage:Original map unit boundaries delineated from aerial photographs and stereoscope interpretation. Map units transferred to clean dyeline sheets or topographic maps via a mapograph. Original maps were hardcopy only. With the advent of geographic information systems polygons were digitised by rectifying the original hard copy maps.
Map unit boundaries derived using hard copy aerial photography and stereoscope, satellite imagery (post 1993), geological and topographic maps. Field data (site data) described and classified according to national standards at the time of capture.
Map unit polygons collected via geographic information system (ArcGIS/MapInfo). Core landform, soil and vegetation attributes attached to map units with additional attributes unique to individual surveys.

Positional Accuracy:POLYGON DATA:
Hardcopy maps rectified using control points marked on original hardcopy maps. Control points include creek lines, cadastre and other topographic features. Depending on the nature of the landscape (the number of control points) positional accuracy may vary. Positional accuracy generally considered moderate.
POINT DATA:
Survey teams navigated during field operations with topographic maps, aerial photographs and prismatic compass. Point source locations marked on aerial photography in the field. Positional accuracy considered within 300m but generally below 200m depending on the terrain. Site coordinates derived by transferring site locations from aerial photographs to topographic maps and coordinates calculated. In some cases sites have been georeferenced directly from aerial photography to Google Earth Web Map Server in MapInfo or ArcGIS.

Attribute Accuracy:Attributes assigned according to the dominant feature. For example, where ten sites have been grouped to describe a particular map unit and two different soils described from these sites then the dominant soil is chosen. Attribute values, as described in the Data Dictionary below, have been added to each polygon.

Logical Consistency:GIS editing tools were used to rectify all overshoots and undershoots in line work. Polygon topology rules applied are; must not overlap, must not have gaps and each polygon has only one label.

Completeness:Complete

Contacts

Name Organisation Position Role Phone Fax Email

Data Requests Officer Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department) distributor datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Name	Organisation	Position	Role	Phone	Fax	Email
Data Requests Officer	Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security	Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department)	distributor			datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Data Dictionary

Attribute Attribute Description Possible Code Code Description

LAND_UNIT Alias: Land Unit
the land unit label from the spatial dataset (eg 9a2)

LF_CLASS Alias: Landform Classification
the landform classification has been adopted by the dept across a number of surveys since 2000 to group land units into broad landform entities

LF_DESC Alias: Landform Description
includes details about landform, and usually general notes pertaining to slope, surface gravel and other details describing the land unit

SOIL Alias: Dominant Soil Type
The dominant soil order described in a land unit is recorded.

SOIL_DESC Alias: Soil Description
includes an ASC or Northcote/other soil classification and usually includes colour, soil depth and other notes describing the soil.

SOIL_SYS Alias: Soil Classification System
used to describe the soil in the land unit description. It is recommended that where possible soils are translated to an order in the Australian Soil Classification (Isbell 2003).

SPECIES_1 Alias: Veg Species 1
The dominant vegetation species described in a land unit are recorded under SPECIES_1, SPECIES_2 and SPECIES_3 respectively using non abbreviated Latin names. The order of species listed determines their dominance.

SPECIES_2 Alias: Veg Species 2
where 2 dominant vegetations species are recorded in a land unit

SPECIES_3 Alias: Veg Species 3
where 3 dominant vegetations species are recorded in a land unit

SURVEY_ID Alias: Survey Identification
the first five characters from the corporate survey code

SURVEY_NME Alias: Survey Name
the full name of the report to which the mapping refers (or the original survey report if several surveys have been amalgamated)

VEG_DESC Alias: Vegetation Description
Vegetation community is described; dominant species and its structure are recorded.

VEG_STRUC Alias: Vegetation Structure
The dominant vegetation structure in a Land unit is recorded. It is determined according to the Vegetation Classification scheme used to derive the data.

VEG_SYS Alias: Veg Classification System
vegetation classification system used to determine and describe the vegetation structure in a Land unit description.

Attribute	Attribute Description	Possible Code	Code Description
LAND_UNIT	Alias: Land Unit the land unit label from the spatial dataset (eg 9a2)
LF_CLASS	Alias: Landform Classification the landform classification has been adopted by the dept across a number of surveys since 2000 to group land units into broad landform entities
LF_DESC	Alias: Landform Description includes details about landform, and usually general notes pertaining to slope, surface gravel and other details describing the land unit
SOIL	Alias: Dominant Soil Type The dominant soil order described in a land unit is recorded.
SOIL_DESC	Alias: Soil Description includes an ASC or Northcote/other soil classification and usually includes colour, soil depth and other notes describing the soil.
SOIL_SYS	Alias: Soil Classification System used to describe the soil in the land unit description. It is recommended that where possible soils are translated to an order in the Australian Soil Classification (Isbell 2003).
SPECIES_1	Alias: Veg Species 1 The dominant vegetation species described in a land unit are recorded under SPECIES_1, SPECIES_2 and SPECIES_3 respectively using non abbreviated Latin names. The order of species listed determines their dominance.
SPECIES_2	Alias: Veg Species 2 where 2 dominant vegetations species are recorded in a land unit
SPECIES_3	Alias: Veg Species 3 where 3 dominant vegetations species are recorded in a land unit
SURVEY_ID	Alias: Survey Identification the first five characters from the corporate survey code
SURVEY_NME	Alias: Survey Name the full name of the report to which the mapping refers (or the original survey report if several surveys have been amalgamated)
VEG_DESC	Alias: Vegetation Description Vegetation community is described; dominant species and its structure are recorded.
VEG_STRUC	Alias: Vegetation Structure The dominant vegetation structure in a Land unit is recorded. It is determined according to the Vegetation Classification scheme used to derive the data.
VEG_SYS	Alias: Veg Classification System vegetation classification system used to determine and describe the vegetation structure in a Land unit description.

Supplementary Information

Department Survey reference: Bathi_50 (the survey reference was bathu_50. Amended 27/05/2015).

Bibliographic Reference: Olsen, C.J. (1980); A REPORT ON THE LAND RESOURCES OF SOUTH/EAST BATHURST ISLAND. Land Conservation Unit, Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.

The technical report is available for download (PDF) via the Northern Territory Library, hdl.handle.net/10070/230306

This record maintained using the NTLIS Metadata Tool

Metadata : Land Units of South/East Bathurst Island