Estuaries
dataset:
ESTUARIES
Areas of estuarine waters derived and updated by the Index of Estuary Condition funded by the Department Environment, Land,
Water and Planning. Underlying estuarine areas were produced by Deakin University as part of the projects: "Linking catchments
to the sea: Understanding how human activities impact on Victorian estuaries" funded by the National Heritage Trust (Barton
et al., 2008) and the Department of Sustainability and Environment and the Trial Implementation of the Index of Estuary Condition,
funded by the Department of Sustainability and Environment and Deakin University (Pope et al., 2015).
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Citation proposal Citation proposal
(2021) Estuaries Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5a3bec68-69ea-5596-9d07-f414faff39b6 |
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Description
- Title
- Estuaries
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- ESTUARIES
- Purpose
- ESTUARIES is a spatial representation of estuarine water areas. It was prepared by the Arthur Rylah Institute (DELWP) for the 2021 Index of Estuarine Condition. It was built on the work by Deakin University's assessment of catchment-based threats to estuary health. Work by Deakin University includes modifications to an earlier layer with data from a project extension that aimed to improve the spatial accuracy of upstream boundaries for selected estuaries. Details of selection of estuaries and spatial definition of mouths and heads are provided in Barton, J.L., Pope, A.J., Quinn, G.P. and Sherwood, J.E. (2008) Identifying threats to the ecological condition of Victorian estuaries (Department of Sustainability and Environment Technical Report, ISBN 978-1-74208-745-0 (online)). Additional survey work to identify locations of upstream limits resulted in modifications to 25 estuaries, upstream limits of 22 additional arms of those 25 estuaries and the exclusion of 2 previously included estuaries (Wild Dog and Anderson) on the basis of the length criteria identified in Barton et al. (2008). Spatial identification of estuarine areas will be critical to inclusion of estuaries in the river management framework that includes the expansion of fluvial condition and risk assessment methodologies to estuaries. The aim of this layer is to eventually map current estuarine extent of Victoria's estuaries to a 1:25000 or better scale.
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- Completed
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- Inland waters
- Oceans
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
Extents
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- General - Victoria
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