AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.2.6 - Evaluating the impacts of local and international pressures on migratory shorebirds in Roebuck Bay and Eighty-Mile Beach

The tidal flats of the Kimberley coast support the largest populations of migratory shorebirds in Australia. Eighty Mile Beach and Roebuck Bay are the most important shorebird sites in the region, regularly supporting more than 550,000 migratory shorebirds.
Shorebird numbers in north-western Australia have been monitored systematically since 2004, with the long-term objective of developing a dataset that can assess changes in shorebird diversity and numbers over time, and their response to environmental changes, such as local changes in coastal morphology, habitat loss (including that in staging areas), global population decline, climate change and sea-level rise. We seek to extend this monitoring program through the summer of 2012/2013.  WAMSI funding was used to carry out two summer shorebird counts, 24-30 Nov 2012 and 9-14 Dec 2012, maintaining the continuity of a 14-year series of systematic counts from Eighty Mile Beach, Roebuck Bay and Bush Point. 
The data obtained will be added to the existing database, and used in two analyses/publications: 
(1) An assessment of whether dramatic declines in shorebird abundance in Korea following large-scale reclamation operations resulted in detectable effects in abundance and survival of shorebirds in northwestern Australia; 
(2) An assessment of whether shorebirds have changed their pattern of high tide roost use since 2004.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
Early Townsite of Bridgetown 1896

AU WA S235-cons3868 043 
Bridgetown 26/6. Townsite of Bridgetown (Lots to the South and S. West of Townsite). Compiled by Hogarth.
Further Information available from State Records Office.
Series S235 - ORIGINAL PLANS - TOWNSITES 

Tags: early, historical, site, town
Organization: State Records Office of Western Australia
WAMSI Kimberley aerial photo data - 21st September 2008

On the 21st of September 2008 a Canon EOS 1Ds took 283 photos from a plane flown by Jorg Hacker - (Airborne Research Australia).  These were taken over part of the Kimberley (Packer Island and Perpendicular Head) and geo-located (centre-points only) using OziExplorer and OziPhotoTools software.
Detailed flight lines and information are available in the .kmz files available for download.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
Tri Drive Network 2 With Conditions

RAV Network information periodically changes with additions or removal of data and users should confirm that information is current and accurate. The RAV Network Road Tables and RAV Mapping Tool can be found on the Main Roads Western Australia website, refer Hyperlink below.https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/heavy-vehicles/Main Roads Open Data: Restricted Access Networkshttps://portal-mainroads.opendata.arcgis.com/pages/hvs-networksUpdate Frequency: WeeklySpatial Coverage: Western AustraliaLegalYou are accessing this data pursuant to a Creative Commons (Attribution) Licence which has a disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability. You accept that the data provided pursuant to the Licence is subject to changes. Main Roads WA website is the official and current source of RAV Network data.Pursuant to section 3 of the Licence you are provided with the following notice to be included when you Share the Licenced Material and when you Share your Adapted Material: The Commissioner of Main Roads is the creator and owner of the data and Licenced Material, which is accessed pursuant to a Creative Commons (Attribution) Licence, which has a disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability. Main Roads WA website is the official and current source of RAV Network data.Licensinghttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Tags: HVS, RAV, Tri Drive 1-5, Tri Drive Networks
Organization: Main Roads Western Australia
Perth Townsite 1838

Perth 18. Plan from actual survey of Township of Perth showing Lots, Streets &amp; Lakes bounded by Perth Water to South, Ellen Street to North, Mt Eliza to West &amp; Swan River &amp; Hierrisson Island to East. Drawn by A. C. Hillman, 1838 [scale: 10 chains to an inch].

Tags: early, historical, site, town
Organization: State Records Office of Western Australia
WAMSI Node 3.2.1 - Diversity, abundance and habitat utilisation of sharks and rays - Acoustic data

Elasmobranchs were tagged with acoustic tags and subsequently monitored with acoustic receivers (Vemco VR2, VR2W and VR3) moored on the seabed that constitute the Ningaloo Reef Ecosystem Tracking Array (NRETA). This array is part of the nationwide network of marine acoustic monitoring, the Australian Acoustic Tagging and Monitoring System (AATAMS).
A total of 96 acoustic receivers are deployed at Ningaloo Reef between Coral Bay and Tantabiddi.
A total of 56 acoustic tags were deployed on six species of sharks and three species of rays in the Ningaloo Marine Park in February 2008.
Data is accessible through the IMOS AATAMS website listed below.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
Floreat-f1 - Contour lines SHP - Aug 2021

The first capture of the area surrounding the Floreat Surf Life Saving Club, these sand dunes were captured by UAV imagery on 17th Aug 2021 for the Cambridge Coastcare beach dune modelling and monitoring project. It was created as part of an initiative to innovatively monitor coastal dune erosion and visualize these changes over time for future management and mitigation. This data includes Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM, Elevation Contours, 3D Mesh, 3D Point Cloud and LiDAR constructed from over 500 images captured from UAV (drone) and processed in Pix4D. All datasets can be freely accessed through DataWA.
Link to Animated video fly-through of this 3D data model
Link to the Sketchfab visualisation of the 3D textured mesh
The dataset is a DTM Elevation Contour shapefile of the South Floreat SLSC (2021 Flight-1 project area). Contours are taken from MSL (AHD) at 1 metre elevation intervals.

Tags: beach, beachface, blowout, change, coast, coastal, coastline, contours, drift, drone, dune, foreshore, habitat, management, marine, movements, orthomosaic, photogrammetry, pointcloud, protection, restoration, sand, shoreline, uav, vegetation, wa
Organization: Cambridge Coastcare
Floreat-f2 - 3D Textured Mesh OBJ - Aug 2022

The second capture of the area North of the Floreat Surf Life Saving Club, these sand dunes were captured by UAV imagery on 24th Aug 2022 for the Cambridge Coastcare beach dune modelling and monitoring project. It was created as part of an initiative to innovatively monitor coastal dune erosion and visualize these changes over time for future management and mitigation. This data includes Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM, Elevation Contours, 3D Mesh, 3D Point Cloud and LiDAR constructed from over 500 images captured from UAV (drone) and processed in Pix4D. All datasets can be freely accessed through DataWA.
Link to Animated video fly-through of this 3D data model
Link to the Sketchfab visualisation of the 3D textured mesh
The dataset is a 3D Textured Mesh (zipped OBJ format) of the area North of Floreat SLSC (2022 Flight-2 project area).

Tags: 3d mesh, beach, beachface, blowout, change, coast, coastal, coastline, contours, drift, drone, dtm, dune, foreshore, habitat, management, marine, movements, orthomosaic, photogrammetry, protection, restoration, sand, shoreline, uav, vegetation, wa
Organization: Cambridge Coastcare
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.1.2 - Human values and aspirations for coastal waters of the Kimberley

The aims of the project are:

Describe  and  analyse  the  social  values  of  people  associated  with  the  coastal  waters  of  the  western  Kimberley,  especially  Indigenous community  members
 
Map  these  values  so  they  can  be  included  in  decision  making  that  relies  on  mapping  and 
spatially‐based  decisions.
 
Identify  and  analyse  peoples’  aspirations  regarding  possible  futures  for  the  western 
Kimberley  coastline.  

The following data were collected:
Social values &amp; preferences data:
- Exploratory and descriptive research generating comprehensive baseline social information on values and management preferences from a broad range of stakeholder groups. Data is relevant to informing broad-scale marine and coastal planning.
- Spatially explicit data on values and management preferences from a range of stakeholder groups associated with the Kimberley coast.
- Spatially explicit data on values, activities and management preferences from tourists at Port Smith.
- Spatial data collected as raw polygon (Phase 1) and point mapping data (Phase 2 &amp; 3) for values. For Phases 2 &amp; 3 point mapping data is also available for  management preferences. Phase 3 also captured point mapping data on tourist activities.
Choice experiment survey data:
- Socio-economic information about respondents to the choice experiment survey
- Choices between alternative, spatially explicit, management options for the Kimberley coast, these choices can be used to infer people’s preferences for different attributes of the Kimberley coast.
Data stored as Geodatabase files (MurdochUni_Kimberley_values.gdb, MurdochUNi_Kimberley_PPGIS2015.gdb, Port_Smith_Karajarri.gdb)

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.6 - Terrestrial-Ocean Linkages - Pawsey

This project aimed to understand how dissolved and particulate material from freshwater systems in the Kimberley are transported by the tides and currents into the coastal marine environment and whether these exports from land play a role in coastal productivity. The project linked closely with WAMSI 2 KMRP projects 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to better understand how freshwater discharge influences marine food web structure and sustains the productivity of Kimberley inshore ecosystems. Oceanographic and biogeochemical data was collected over two field campaigns (October/November 2013 and April/May 2014) from the Walcott Inlet, Collier Bay area (16° 22.624’S 124° 26.235’E to 16° 24.487’S 124° 54.035’E) and models integrated with those for Collier Bay (KMRP Project 2.2.2).
This metadata relates to UWA component of study.  Related CSIRO metadata is located here -
 http://www.marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search#!fc8bbadc-3242-06db-e043-08114f8c34f5
Data stored at Pawsey.  CTD_casts_Mar2014, CTD_casts_Oct2013, Hydrology_model_outputs (Walcott_xx.xlsx), Bathymetric_data.csv, ADCP_Jun2014.mat, ADCP_Oct2013.mat, Water_samples.xlsx, SBE39.xlsx

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
WAMSI Node 3.4.2 - Characterisation of Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Ningaloo Reef

The overall aim of this project was to determine the geomorphological and sedimentary characteristics (biological and physical) of the Ningaloo Reef and shelf, and to identify evolutionary characteristics relevant to the maintenance of marine biodiversity. This included characterising reef growth history, coastal and seabed geomorphology, surficial sediment facies and their influence on the distribution of benthic habitats. This research presents an interdisciplinary study that provides an important baseline for future habitat mapping, biodiversity assessments, spatial planning, and fisheries management. The characterisation and mapping of benthic habitats based on physical parameters is central for the ongoing monitoring, management and conservation of the NMP’s inshore and offshore resources, particularly during a time of increasing anthropogenic and environmental pressures.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 2/3 - 2 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 1

3D plume mapping was conducted over a 10 day period at Chevron’s Wheatstone dredging operation near Onslow Western Australia. Dredge plumes created by a cutter suction dredge were sampled from CSIRO vessel RV Linnaeus on voyage number LI2013_v25. 
Underway measurements were made using a ship mounted ADCP to measure vertical velocity profiles and backscatter intensity and DALEC that measured the spectral qualities of incoming and reflected sea surface light. Profile data were collected using LISST (particle size distributions), CTD (backscatter, temperature and salinity), Hydroscat, Hydrorad (light profiles, extinction coefficients , and scattering properties). Surface and bottom water samples were be collected at selected sites and analyzed  for particle size distributions and total suspended solids.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
Early Townsite of Port Hedland 1902 (Town Plan)

AU WA S235- cons3868 368 
Port Hedland 102/3. Plan of Extension of Townsite of Port Hedland showing Lots 7-127 bounded by The Esplanade, Darlot, Morgans, McKay &amp; Anderson Streets &amp; Lots 1, 20, 21, 40, 41 &amp; 60 facing Anderson Street [scale: 4 chains to an inch]. 
Further Information available from State Records Office.
Series S235 - ORIGINAL PLANS - TOWNSITES 

Tags: early, historical, site, town
Organization: State Records Office of Western Australia
WAMSI Node 4.2.4 - Demersal fish assemblage sampling method comparison and power analyses - Ningaloo

In July 2006, stereo-video surveys were conducted at six sites within two locations adjacent to two no-take areas, Mandu and Osprey. This video from WAMSI 3.2 and Ben Fitzpatrick's PhD (see metadata link under Ben's contact details).
This data was used with data from Abrolhos and Capes regions in a larger study that compared the assemblage composition, relative abundance and size of fishes sampled using Baited remote underwater stereo-video (stereo BRUV) and Diver-operated stereo-video systems (stereo DOV).

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
WA Theme Parks

A collection of WA's iconic theme parks from the 1980s. Many of these sites are still around today, but are either bigger, laying in ruins or modified versions of their former lives. Landgate has delved into the archives to extract 'wicked' aerial imagery of some of these venues for WA Heritage Week. Take a trip back in time without the need of a DeLorean! 
This dataset contains vectorised boundaries for the theme parks as well as the aerial imagery. Theme parks captured include:

Action Park (1985)
Adventure World (1983)
Aqua Thrillway (1983)
Atlantis Marine Park (1985)
Bullen's African Lion Safari Park (1983)
Dizzy Lamb Park (1985)
El Caballo Blanco (1985)
Elizabethan Village (1981)
Kalamunda Wet and Wild (1981/1983)
Mandurah Castle Fun and Park (1985)
Pioneer World Village (1983)
The Maze (1983)
Yanchep Grass Ski Park (1983)

© Western Australian Land Information Authority (Landgate). Use of Landgate data is subject to Personal Use License terms and conditions unless otherwise authorised under approved License terms and conditions. 

Tags: heritage, heritage-week, park, theme
Organization: Landgate
Floreat Beach 2 - Raster DTM GeoTIFF - Jan 2019

No description available.

Tags: 3d, beach, beachface, blowout, change, coast, coastal, coastline, contours, drift, drone, dtm, dune, foreshore, habitat, management, marine, movements, photogrammetry, protection, restoration, sand, shoreline, uav, vegetation, wa
Organization: Cambridge Coastcare
Floreat-f4 - Raster DTM GeoTIFF - Aug 2022

The sixth capture of the Floreat dog beach, these sand dunes were captured by UAV imagery on 24th Aug 2022 for the Cambridge Coastcare beach dune modelling and monitoring project. It was created as part of an initiative to innovatively monitor coastal dune erosion and visualize these changes over time for future management and mitigation. This data includes Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM, Elevation Contours, 3D Mesh, 3D Point Cloud and LiDAR constructed from over 500 images captured from UAV (drone) and processed in Pix4D. All datasets can be freely accessed through DataWA.
Link to Animated video fly-through of this 3D data model
Link to the Sketchfab visualisation of the 3D textured mesh
The dataset is a 10cm Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the Floreat dog beach (2022 Flight-4 project area).

Tags: 3d mesh, DSM, DTM, LiDAR, beach, beachface, blowout, change, coast, coastal, coastline, contours, drift, drone, dune, foreshore, habitat, management, marine, movements, orthomosaic, photogrammetry, protection, restoration, sand, shoreline, uav, vegetation, wa
Organization: Cambridge Coastcare
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.3.2 - Climate Change Reef Calcification

The overall objectives of this project are to understand how corals, the key ecosystem engineers on tropical reefs, have adapted and will respond in the future to the extreme variations in physical (e.g. light, temperature, water motion) and chemical (e.g. pCO2, oxygen, and nutrients) conditions characteristic of the Kimberley coastal region.
Through a series of field and laboratory experiments, we aimed to:


Study seasonal calcification rates of common Kimberley corals over two years;


Assess their thermal tolerance and establish the first bleaching thresholds for this region; and


Reconstruct their resilience to historical climate and environmental extremes using geochemical proxies in coral cores.


Data stored on Pawsey Data Store and UWA IRDS store.  The raw data from the 2017 paper are also archived in the Pangaea database.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
Christmas Island Contours - 10m- 2011

10m contours were generated for the whole island from the 2011 DEM. As a guide, the DEM data is vertically accurate to 15cm and horizontally accurate to 30cm.
Contours were generated from the DEM using freeware Quantum GIS. When compared to a sample area generated from the same data but using ESRI ArcMap, the contours were of equal or better quality.
Disclaimer

Tags: 2011 LiDAR Survey, Christmas, IOT, contours, height data
Organization: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development
WAMSI Kimberley aerial photo data - 18th September 2008

On the 18th of September 2008 a Canon EOS 1Ds took 730 photos from a plane flown by Jorg Hacker - (Airborne Research Australia).  These were taken over part of the Kimberley (Montgomery Reef) and geo-located (centre-points only) using OziExplorer and OziPhotoTools software.
Detailed flight lines and information are available in the .kmz files available for download.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
WAMSI Node 4.3.1a - Trophic interactions - Assessing the ecological impact of the Western Rock lobster fishery in fished and unfished deep water areas

This study aims to use closed areas to examine the potential for the western rock lobster fishery to impact ecosystem structure, function, diversity, productivity and habitats through the removal of target stocks. The project will provide baseline information essential for the assessment of the impacts of the fishery on the ecosystem including information on trophic linkages between lobsters and their predators and prey.
5 main datasets related to this project:
a) Hydroacoustic data collected by FUGRO including high-resolution bathymetry for the area surrounding the new closed area. 
b) Raw towed video footage collected by UWA to ground truth hydroacoustic data and develop predictive models
c) Predictive models showing biota and substrate (see thumbnail).
d) Catch information from annual lobster sampling in the closed area (prior to closure) that forms the basis of future monitoring and has been used in building predictive relationships between lobsters and habitats. 
e) High resolution benthic images collected with the AUV (in conjunction with WAMSI 4.2) and available via IMOS portal.
This project is also part the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project FRDC 2008/013 - "Assessing the ecological impact of the Western Rock lobster fishery in fished and unfished areas".

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution
Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI)

The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia.  A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed.  
The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card.
The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: 

Some cards are missing
Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information
Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not
Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card
As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced.

It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about 
early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians
Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying.  Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference.   
We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset.  You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.

Tags: biographical information, dates of birth, deaths, genealogy, history, marriages, occupations
Organization: State Library of Western Australia
WAMSI Node 4.2.1b - Development and validation of an estuarine health index for the Swan Estuary

This project (WAMSI Node 4.2.1b) aimed to develop an index for assessing the health of the Swan Estuary, based on fish assemblage characteristics. 
The index incorporates a suite of metrics, each of which measures a different aspect of the fish community, e.g. species diversity and composition, use of the Estuary as a nursery habitat, and the trophic structure (the feeding relationships between species) of the estuarine fish community.The study incorporated and utilized historical data from 1977-2004, plus current sampling (2007-2009), to establish reference conditions for multiple fish community metrics, against which the recent, current and future status of the estuary is assessed.
Data is available as two Excel spreadsheets:
Establishing_reference_and_scoring_seine_Metrics.xls
Establishing_reference_and_scoring_gill_Metrics.xls
The gill net and seine net files contain, respectively, for each offshore and nearshore historical fish sample collected between 1976 and 2009:
(i) the raw values calculated for each of the selected fish metrics comprising the offshore and nearshore health indices;
(ii) the corresponding metric scores (i.e. scored in comparison to the appropriate reference conditions I derived for each metric); and
(iii) the final health index scores for each historical sample.
The historical studies used in the project are all detailed in the final report.

Organization: Western Australian Marine Science Institution