Land Resources of the Lower Finniss, Northern Territory

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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:2024-11-22

Date Metadata Last Updated:2017-10-12

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Citation

ANZLIC Identifier:2DBCB77120BF06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE

Title:Land Resources of the Lower Finniss, Northern Territory

Citation Date:2000-01-14

Date Type:publication

Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security

Description

Abstract:

This spatial dataset provides polygon information on the map unit boundaries of the Land Resources of the Lower Finniss, Northern Territory. The surveyed area covers 845km2 with a purpose to map, describe and evaluate land to assist in future land use planning and management.

ANZLIC Search Words:

biota

environment

geoscientificInformation

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

North Bounding Coordinate:-12.638601

South Bounding Coordinate:-12.888603

East Bounding Coordinate:130.871216

West Bounding Coordinate:130.331216

Dataset Status

Dataset ID:ANZNT0782000010

Language:English

Character Set: Latin 1

Progress:completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency:asNeeded

Data Currency Start Date:1998-07-01

Data Currency End Date:2002-06-30

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

If you do not agree to the terms and conditions you must not use the geospatial products.

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:The map unit boundaries was intepreted by land resource officer in 1998-2004 at 1 : 25,000.

Map unit boundaries derived using aerial photography, satellite imagery, geological and topological data. Field data (site information) described and classified according to national standards.

Map unit polygons collected via geographic information system (ARC/MapInfo).

Core landform, soil and vegetation attributes attached to map units with additional attributes unique to individual surveys.

Positional Accuracy:POLYGON DATA
Map unit boundaries transferred from aerial photographs to topographic maps, using the best available topographic mapping at the time (generally 1:100 000) via a mapograph. Level of accuracy depends on the number of control points on individual aerial photographs. 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 to high.

POINT SOURCE DATA
Site point coordinates derived from a geographic positioning system with general accuracy of within 10-50m.

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.

Logical Consistency:GIS editing tools were used to rectify all overshoots and undershoots in linework. Using ArcInfo topological consistency checks were performed to detect flaws in the spatial data structure. The coverage was cleaned, to eliminate any duplicates arcs. The coverage was built for arcs and polygon topologies. A label errors routine was run to detect unlabelled polygons. A node errors routine was run to identify pseudo nodes and dangles. Checks was done to unsure that all classified polygons are closed, nodes are formed at intersections of lines and that each polgon 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 The LAND_UNIT field is the land unit label from the spatial dataset (ie.9a2).

LF_CLASS Landform class is a system adopted by the department. The categories do not conform to national criteria even though some have been sourced from Australian Soil and Land Survey - Field Handbook (Mc Donald et.al. 1998).

LU_DESC The LU_DESC is a general text field from the map legend. The amount of detail may vary between surveys

SOIL_SYS The SOIL_SYS field is the soil classification system used to describe the soil in the land unit description.

SPECIES_ 3 Where 3 dominant vegetation species described in a land unit.The order of species listed determines their dominance.

SPECIES_1 The dominant vegetation species described in a land unit. The order of species listed determines their dominance

SPECIES_2 Where 2 dominant vegetation species were described in a land unit. The order of species listed determines their dominance.

SURVEY_ID The SURVEY_ID field is the first five characters from the corporate survey code.

SURVEY_NME The SURVEY_NME is the full name of the report to which the mapping refers

VEG_STRUC Structural classes from NVIS (ESCAVI 2003), Walker and Hopkins (1998) and Specht (1970) classification schemes.

VEG_SYS The National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) classification system.

Attribute	Attribute Description	Possible Code	Code Description
LAND_UNIT	The LAND_UNIT field is the land unit label from the spatial dataset (ie.9a2).
LF_CLASS	Landform class is a system adopted by the department. The categories do not conform to national criteria even though some have been sourced from Australian Soil and Land Survey - Field Handbook (Mc Donald et.al. 1998).
LU_DESC	The LU_DESC is a general text field from the map legend. The amount of detail may vary between surveys
SOIL_SYS	The SOIL_SYS field is the soil classification system used to describe the soil in the land unit description.
SPECIES_ 3	Where 3 dominant vegetation species described in a land unit.The order of species listed determines their dominance.
SPECIES_1	The dominant vegetation species described in a land unit. The order of species listed determines their dominance
SPECIES_2	Where 2 dominant vegetation species were described in a land unit. The order of species listed determines their dominance.
SURVEY_ID	The SURVEY_ID field is the first five characters from the corporate survey code.
SURVEY_NME	The SURVEY_NME is the full name of the report to which the mapping refers
VEG_STRUC	Structural classes from NVIS (ESCAVI 2003), Walker and Hopkins (1998) and Specht (1970) classification schemes.
VEG_SYS	The National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) classification system.

Supplementary Information

Department Survey Identifier: DUNDE_25

Bibliographic Reference:
Hill J.V., Fett D., Perrett F. (2002)
LAND RESOURCES OF THE LOWER FINNISS
Technical Report 19/2002, Natural Systems Division, Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment, Darwin, NT.

This report (pdf) can be downloaded from the Northern Territory Library via hdl.handle.net/10070/241729
(low resolution PDF 9.6MB, high resolution PDF 45.8MB)

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Metadata : Land Resources of the Lower Finniss, Northern Territory