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Metadata : Vegetation Survey of McArthur River Catchment, Northern Territory |
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Date Metadata Extracted:2024-11-22
Date Metadata Last Updated:2013-04-23
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Citation
ANZLIC Identifier:C86160E0AFAB38CDE040CD9B21443CB8
Title: Vegetation Survey of McArthur River Catchment, Northern Territory
Citation Date:2011-12-01
Date Type:publication
Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security
Description
This low/medium resolution vegetation survey (scale 1:100,000) and accompanying polygon spatial dataset provides information about the vegetation communities of the McArthur River catchment, an area of approximately 25,800 km2 in the Northern Territory. This information is intended to support conservation and development planning processes and land management in the catchment by a range of end-users.
- biota
- environment
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Bounding Coordinates:
- North Bounding Coordinate:-15.5758038
- South Bounding Coordinate:-17.5026813
- East Bounding Coordinate:136.8367403
- West Bounding Coordinate:134.9174695
Dataset Status
Dataset ID:
Language:English
Character Set: Latin 1
Progress:completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency:notPlanned
Data Currency Start Date:2008-07-01
Data Currency End Date:2011-12-16
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:Vegetation map units were derived from the numerical classification of >800 floristic sites collected from the McArthur River catchment in association with historical and current vegetation, biodiversity and land resource surveys. Continuous cover data in each vegetation strata were employed to derive a floristic classification of all sites within the study area and subsequently manually interpreted to derive consistent vegetation map unit boundaries at a classification scale of approximately 1:100 000. Full details can be found in the report which accompanies this spatial data.
Map unit boundaries were derived from a number of remotely sensed data sources using both statistical analysis and manual interpretation methods, including:
1. Supervised classification of Landsat 5 TM data in ENVI
2. Stereoscopic interpretation of high resolution hardcopy aerial photography;
3. On-screen interpretation of contemporary high resolution digital aerial photography;
4. Manual interpretation of LANDSAT 5 TM multi-spectral satellite imagery.
These polygons were initially attributed using the vegetation map unit classification derived via numerical analysis with subsequent evaluation and manual editing.
Polygon attribution reflects the interpretation and integration of a range of data including detailed site data, field notes, aerial photography, satellite image analysis and digital elevation models. Full details of the vegetation mapping process and the vegetation map unit descriptions can be found in Cuff, Thompson, Sparrow & Brocklehurst, 2009.
Positional Accuracy:POLYGON DATA: Initial polygon boundaries were derived automatically from satellite image classification with supplementary line-work digitised from a combination of aerial photography and satellite image interpretation.
Attribute Accuracy: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 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 BVG Broad Vegetation Group BVG_S Broad Vegetation Sub-group VEG1 Dominant vegetation map unit code VEG1_PC % Dominant vegetation map unit proportion VEG2 Additional vegetation map unit code (where applicable) VEG2_PC % Additional vegetation map unit proportion (where applicable) VEG3 Additional vegetation map unit code (where applicable) VEG3_PC % Additional vegetation map unit proportion (where applicable) VEG4 Additional vegetation map unit code (where applicable) VEG4_PC % Additional vegetation map unit proportion (where applicable) VMU Vegetation map unit code for polygon VMU_ORIG Original vegetation map unit code ascribed from satellite image classification VMU_PC % Proportion of vegetation map units contained within polygon mcar_100_NVIS_lut: Cover_Range % Crown cover range of dominant vegetation map unit layer mcar_100_NVIS_lut: Height_Range (m) Height range in metres of dominant vegetation map unit layer mcar_100_NVIS_lut: Mean_Cover % Average crown cover of dominant vegetation map unit layer mcar_100_NVIS_lut: Mean_Height (m) Average height in metres of dominant vegetation map unit layer mcar_100_NVIS_lut: NVIS_Description NVIS Level 6 vegetation description mcar_100_NVIS_lut: NVIS_Structure NVIS structural formation code mcar_100_NVIS_lut: VMU Description Vegetation map unit description
Supplementary Information
Department's Survey Reference Code: MCART_100
Bibliographic Reference: Cuff, N.C Thompson, T., Sparrow, B. & Brocklehurst, P. S. (2009) Vegetation Survey and Mapping of the McArthur River Catchment, Northern Territory. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport, Palmerston, Technical Report No. 06/2009D. View this report (pdf) via the Northern Territory Library: hdl.handle.net/10070/241509
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