NSW Marine Estate Towed Video Imagery

Raw downward facing still imagery of the seabed over the NSW continental shelf acquired using NSW government's (Department of Climate Change Energy Environment and Water) towed video system aboard RV Bombora. Acquisition is ongoing (>2015) predominantly funded by the department under Coastal Reform Climate Change Fund project 'State-wide Science' and/or by various collaborative agencies (DPI; Parks Australia; FRDC) and educational institutions (UoW: UTas). Imagery is captured over areas to 1) ground-truth seabed typologies and validate habitat boundaries derived from multi-beam echosounder (MBES) surveys (www.aodn.org.au or www.ausseabed.gov.au) and/or 2) habitat assessments and monitoring to capture broad distribution of seabed benthic communities. For biodiversity-type assessments, imagery is captured, and transects/sites are selected in a sampling design in accordance with the Australian Field Manuals for Marine Sampling. Imagery captured is generally of benthic habitats in 10-120m of water depth over the NSW inner shelf. Georeferenced (XYZ) and time-stamped (UTC) still imagery is accessible via SEED, the online annotation platform Squidle+ and SeaMap Australia.

Organisation: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

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Data and Resources

Please email data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au to request access to this dataset. A DPE representative will be in contact with you shortly, usually within 2 business days, with instruction on accessing the dataset. There may be a requirement to negotiate a data licence agreement.

Additional Info

Metadata template type Video
Asset Type Dataset
Parent seabed-nsw
Alternative Title NSW Marine still imagery of the seabed for the NSW continental shelf
Edition 1
Purpose baseline for monitoring
Update Frequency Unknown
OEH Service Protected Area Establishment and Management
Keywords MARINE-Biology,MARINE-Coasts,MARINE-Reefs,PHOTOGRAPHY-AND-IMAGERY-Remote-Sensing
Field of Research (optional) Landscape Ecology,Marine and Estuarine Ecology incl Marine Ichthyology,Wildlife and Habitat Management
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Point
Object count
7279
Geospatial Topic Imagery base maps earth cover
NSW Place Name Port Stephens Great Lakes
Geospatial Coverage

Dataset extent

Temporal Coverage From 2019-10-20 - 2020-07-31
Datum WSG84 / UTM Zone 56S
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Landing page https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/opendata/dataset/nsw-marine-estate-towed-video-imagery
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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 2022"