AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreements (TUMRA) - 2020-03 (GBRMPA)

Traditional use activities in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are managed under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975, and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan 2003 recognises that under section 211 of the Native Title Act 1993, native title holders may undertake traditional use of marine resources in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

eAtlas Notes:
This is not the authoritative metadata for this dataset. The authoritative source is available from the GBRMPA data portal https://geoportal.gbrmpa.gov.au/datasets/GBRMPA::gbrmpa-traditional-use-of-marine-resources-agreement-tumra-areas. This metadata is retained in the eAtlas to include any additional notes and description about the dataset.

Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreements are community-based plans for management of traditional resources which are accredited in legislation and have proved a successful mechanism for joint management of the Reef.

Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreements describe how Great Barrier Reef Traditional Owner groups work in partnership with the Australian and Queensland governments to manage traditional use activities on their Sea Country.

Each Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreements has a committee to manage the agreement and traditional use of marine resources in their Sea Country, including traditional take, if any of important species such as dugongs and turtles. Their management of traditional use is based on both cultural lore and contemporary science and are also used for broader Sea Country planning and management.

Description of the data:
The following are the list of TUMRAs included in this dataset:
- Dharumbal Region Woppaburra Section: Offshore area including the Keppel Islands Group and the surrounding waters.
- Girringun: Offshore area between Rollingstone and Mission Beach, including Hinchinbrook and Dunk Islands, but excluding the Palm Island Group.
- Wuthathi: Offshore area between Captain Billy Landing and the mouth of the Olive River, extending east past Raine Island.
- Port Curtis Coral Coast: Extending from the entrance of Port Alma south to Burrum Heads, including Curtis Island and the Capricorn and Bunker Island groups.
- Yuku Baja-Muliku: Monkhouse Point south to Forsberg Point and extending east to just past the Ribbon Reefs.
- Lama Lama: Near Massy Creek, east to Hedge Reef and south through Princess Charlotte Bay to the Normanby River in the south.
- Yirrganydji: Area between Port Douglas and Cairns, extending east past Spur, Onyx, Nicholas and Hope Reefs.
- Gunggandji: Green Island, Michaelmas Cay, Fitzroy Island, and the surrounding waters.
- Mandubarra: Offshore areas between the mouth of Mourilyan Harbour south to Kurrimine Beach, extending east past Armistice Reef.

Change Log:
2023-07-24 Dataset setup in eAtlas based on most recent available version of data from 2020-03-11

Tags: Downloadable Data, Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Indigenous, Traditional Owner, boundaries, management, society
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 3.11 - Multi- fishery collaboration to assess population abundances and post release survival of threatened sawfish in northern Australia, 2023-2026 (CSIRO, CDU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub study - Project 3.11 - Multi- fishery collaboration to assess population abundances and post release survival of threatened sawfish in northern Australia. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

To improve sawfish reporting and obtain an estimate of sawfish abundance and stock structure, a large-scale collaborative project is proposed between industry, State and Commonwealth agencies and lead research institutions to gather tissue samples from across northern Australia. The project will have a focus on developing trust between research and the commercial fishing industry that will achieve the following:



Industry led reporting and sampling programs will be established throughout Australia’s northern fisheries. 

Tissue samples will be used to assess sawfish abundance and stock structure using Close-Kin Mark-Recapture (CKMR). 

Estimates of post-release survival will be obtained from satellite tagging and improved reporting. 

Data on abundance and post release survival will be used to assess the sustainability of sawfish bycatch.  


The research also aims to improve reporting of sawfish along with other EPBC listed species in northern Australian fisheries. If enough tissue samples are collected, close kin mark recapture will enable estimates of adult population size for four species of sawfish. Post release survival and abundance estimates will be used to determine the sustainability of sawfish captured as bycatch in state, territory and Commonwealth Fisheries. Improved estimates of bycatch, population connectivity, adult abundance and post release survival were identified as the highest research priorities in the Sawfish and River Shark multispecies recovery plan. 

Within Australia, three out of the four occurring species are listed as Vulnerable and Migratory under the EPBC act (Pristis pristis, P. zijsron and P. clavata). The fourth Australian species, narrow sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata) is listed as a Migratory species. Both A. cuspidata and P. pristis are currently under nomination to be up-listed to Endangered under the EPBC act. The Freshwater Sawfish Pristis pristis is also listed in the Threatened Species Strategy - 100 priority species for fish. 

Planned Outputs
 • Sawfish catch data  [spatial dataset]
 • Tissue samples and sequencing data 
 • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Native Title Determinations - November 2020 (NNTT)

The National Native Title Register is kept by the Native Title Registrar pursuant to s 192 of the NTA to hold information about approved determinations of native title. A "determination of native title" is a decision on whether native title exists in relation to a particular area of land or waters (s 225 of the NTA). Determinations of native title can be made by agreement (consent determination), without opposition (unopposed determination) or following a trial (litigated determination). An "approved determination of native title" is a determination of native title made by the Federal Court of Australia, the High Court of Australia, or a recognised State/Territory body within its jurisdictional limits (s 13 of the NTA). Only approved determinations of native title are recorded on the National Native Title Register (s 193 of the NTA). Note: This dataset also includes representations of determinations of native title that have not yet been entered on the National Native Title Register.

Note: This metadata record is a local copy maintained for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please see the link to the 'Original metadata record for this dataset' for the full metadata and latest update.

Data Location:

This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: \pearl\e-atlas\data\non-custodian\ongoing\AU_NNTT\2023-09-29\original\NTD_Register_Nat.zip

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 3.5 - Supporting regional planning in northern Australia: Building knowledge, skills and partnerships for understanding seagrass distribution, 2023-2026 (JCU, CDU, ECU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub study - Project 3.5 – Supporting regional planning in northern Australia: Building knowledge, skills and partnerships for understanding seagrass distribution. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

Northern Australia has vast development opportunities but limited knowledge of the environment to inform decision making. This region has globally significant seagrass habitat, supporting dugong, green turtle, and commercially important fish and prawns. Key to managing impacts to species in these habitats is reliable data on seagrass distribution and how this changes over time. Achieving this requires large-scale mapping and a ranger-led monitoring network in remote communities. This project will map seagrass habitats across northern Australia through targeted mapping expeditions in data deficient regions. It will strengthen relationships with coastal communities, build-on existing knowledges and skills, co-design training resources with rangers to undertake monitoring, trial new technologies for monitoring, and synthesise historical and new seagrass data into an open access resource.

Planned Outputs
 • Spatial GIS datasets [seagrass surveys]
 • Synthesised historical compilation [spatial dataset]
 • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Estimated rehabilitation cost (ERC) notices

Operators who hold Environmental Authority (EA) for resource activities may be required to contribute surety to the Financial Provisioning Scheme that started on 1 April 2019.

ERC is the estimated cost of preventing/minimising environmental harm and rehabilitating the land on which a resource activity is carried out.

The public register contains records of approved ERC notices that have been decided since 1 April 2019.

Tags: environment, environment authorities, erc, mining, notices, pollution, public-register, rehabilitation, waste
Organization: Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
Bright Blue Marble Next Gen Imagery 2004 (NERP TE 13.1 eAtlas, source: NASA)

This layer shows a 500m resolution image of the world derived from the Blue Marble Next Generation April 2004 image (86400x43200 pixels). 

As the image was derived from MODIS satellite imagery during Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere the high latitude countries (Russia, Canada, etc) are covered in snow.

The colour and tonal range of the original Blue Marble image was compressed and brightened to make the image suitable for use as a basemap. In addition to this noise filtering was applied to de-clutter the image somewhat to make it more suitable as a layer under hillshading, with the aim of the layer being to provide colour to the hillshading. 

The processing of the images was performed in Photoshop and the geo-referencing and final preparation was done using GDAL.

This image is made available as a 357 MB JPEG compressed GeoTiff file as part of the Bright Earth basemap dataset.

Tags: marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Radar - Rottnest Shelf HF ocean radar site (Western Australia, Australia) - Delayed mode wind

The Rottnest Shelf (ROT) HF ocean radar system covers an area which includes Rottnest Island and the Perth Canyon to the north-west.  The Perth Canyon has the highest marine biodiversity in the region with whale and fish aggregations, and high primary and secondary productions which are controlled by the physical oceanographic processes.  

Combined with the dynamics of the Perth Canyon is the dominant Leeuwin Current which produces a wake on the leeward side of Rottnest Island.   This is a topographically induced up-welling and associated primary and secondary productivity.  The region is influenced by Swan River outflow, submarine groundwater discharges , and waste-water outfalls.  

The ROT HF ocean radar is a WERA phased array system with 16-element receive arrays located at Fremantle (32.031 S, 115.746 E) and Guilderton (31.342 S, 115.489 E).  These radars operate at a frequency of 8.512 MHz, with a bandwidth of 33 KHz and a maximum range of 200 Km.  Within the HF radar coverage area surface currents are measured.  Data are also collected from which wind directions and significant wave height can be calculated.  

The ROT area of coverage has a small overlap of commonly observed ocean with the Turqoise Coast (TURQ) SeaSonde HF ocean radar system on its north side.  Together, the ROT and TURQ systems provide continuous monitoring of the shelf from Fremantle to Jurien Bay.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, Coastal Cities / Towns (Australia) | Perth, WA, Countries | Australia, Doppler Frequency, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, IMOS Site | ROT | Rottnest Shelf HF ocean radar site, Marine Features (Australia) | Leeuwin Current, Marine Features (Australia) | Perth Canyon, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Rottnest Island, WA, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Sea State, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Length, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Period, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Spectra, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Speed/direction, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Physical Oceanography, Radiance Or Imagery | Radio Wave | Radio Wave, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, WERA HF Radar | Phased Array
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Radar - Northwest Shelf HF ocean radar site (Western Australia, Australia) - Delayed mode sea water velocity

The Northwest Shelf (NWA) HF ocean radar system covers an area which includes the Ningaloo Peninsula and the Ningaloo Reef to the west.  The Ningaloo Reef is one of the longest and most pristine reefs in the world. The reef is rich in marine biodiversity, with shark whales, turtles and fish aggregations, and high primary and secondary productions which are controlled by the physical oceanographic processes.  

The NWA HF ocean radar is a WERA phased array system with 12-element receive arrays located at the Jurabi Turtle Centre (21.8068 S, 114.1015 E) and Point Billie (22.5432 S, 113.690 E).  These radars operate at a frequency of 5.2625 MHz, with a bandwidth of 25 KHz and a maximum range of 200 Km.  Within the HF radar coverage area surface currents are measured.  Data are also collected from which wind directions and significant wave height can be calculated.

Tags: Doppler Frequency, IMOS Site | NWA | Northwest Shelf HF ocean radar site, Marine Features (Australia) | Leeuwin Current, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Physical Oceanography, Radiance Or Imagery | Radio Wave | Radio Wave, WERA HF Radar | Phased Array
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 4.5 - Developing an Integrated Pest Management Framework for Feral Pigs in Coastal Environments, 2024-2026 (NAILSMA)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub study - Developing an Integrated Pest Management Framework for Feral Pigs in Coastal Environments. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

Feral pig populations are recognised as a current and future threatening process across most of northern Australia’s species and ecosystems. They severely impact 1) threatened species, such as marine turtles, with up to 90% of egg and hatchling mortality attributable to feral pig predation, 2) culturally important places and 3) coastal wetlands, leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions. To date, feral pig control efforts across northern Australia are small-scale. What data we have suggests pig populations remain high, despite the significant annual investment in control, and there is currently no published evidence that quantifies a predictable relationship between control activities that reduce feral pig populations and the reduction of impacts in different habitat types. A new approach is needed. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a well-established approach to pest management in agricultural contexts and, over the last decade, has been successfully adapted for and applied to protecting biodiversity from invasive pest species. The aim of the project is to develop an IPM approach for effective feral pig control for biodiversity and cultural values protection, in coastal wetlands and ecosystems in northern Australia. The science-based IPM approach, informed by workshops with stakeholders and experts, will be implemented in up to three case study areas, principally by Indigenous Land and Sea management organisations and their partners, with data-driven analysis of effectiveness and recommendations for future evolution of the Strategy. This project addresses the Australian Government’s national environmental priorities through mitigating impacts on threatened species, innovation in monitoring and increasing the participation and capacity of Traditional Owners and stakeholders.

Planned Outputs
 • feral pig management case study sites [spatial dataset]
 • aerial survey data and observational data [tabular, imagery]
 • model [software]
 • final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NERP TE Project 12.3 - Relative social and economic values of residents and tourists in the WTWHA, 2012-2014 (JCU)

The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA) is famous for its wildlife, biodiversity and natural beauty, but none of these important assets are bought or sold in the market place, so none are explicitly ‘valued’ with a price.  Recognising that absence of price does not mean absence of value, this project seeks to improve our understanding of the importance of these non-market ‘values’ to a variety of different stakeholders. How important is a beautiful view or a cassowary to the community, to tourists and to the tourism industry? How would people feel if there fewer (or more) opportunities to enjoy those beautiful views or to observe these charismatic birds?

The project will provide environmental managers throughout the world with an illustrated, easy to understand, means of assessing the importance of these types of non-market values to a variety of different stakeholder groups in World Heritage listed forests and other scenic environments. 

This project will:
1. Develop a survey to assess the relative importance of core 'values' of the WTWHA (e.g. cassowaries, mahogany sugar gliders, waterfalls, aesthetics) with other ‘values’ (e.g. development of roads, employment, or income) so that managers are able to assess trade-offs between core WTWHA attributes and other ‘values’.





Distribute the questionaire to residents (householders) throughout the WTWHA and to tourists at the Cairns airport at different times of the year (to control for seasonality of data) in the form of an exit survey;




To analyse the results using multivariate analysis to measure the satisfaction and relative value across different stakeholder groups and to use insights from this analysis to identify priorities for conservation and marketing.



Tags: National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - SST - L3S - Single Sensor - 1 day - day and night time - Australia

This is a single-sensor multi-satellite  SSTfnd product for a single 24 hour period, derived using observations from AVHRR instruments on all available NOAA polar-orbiting satellites.  It is provided as a 0.02deg x 0.02deg cylindrical equidistant projected map over the region 70°E to 170°W, 20°N to 70°S.  Each grid cell contains the 24 hour average of all the highest available quality SSTs that overlap with that cell, weighted by the area of overlap.  The diagram at https://help.aodn.org.au/satellite-data-product-information/ indicates where this product fits within the GHRSST suite of NOAA/AVHRR products. The SSTfnd is derived by adding a constant 0.17 degC to the SSTskin observations after rejecting observations with low surface wind speeds (&lt;6m/s by day and &lt;2m/s at night) (see http://www.bom.gov.au/amoj/docs/2011/beggs.pdf). Matchups with buoy SSTfnd observations indicate typical 2014 biases of &lt; 0.01 degC and standard deviations of 0.6 degC. Refer to the IMOS SST products web page at http://imos.org.au/sstproducts.html and Beggs et al. (2013) at http://imos.org.au/sstdata_references.html for further information.

Production of this single sensor product ceased in June 2025, due to decommissioning of the NOAA-18 satellite. Please refer to the following multi sensor product for data after June 2025 - IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - SST - L3S - Multi Sensor - 1 day - day and night time - Australia (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d7f3178d-869a-4eac-959d-71d1f5e24888)

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Countries | Fiji, Countries | Indonesia, Countries | Malaysia, Countries | New Caledonia, Countries | New Zealand, Countries | Papua New Guinea, Countries | Philippines, Countries | Singapore, Countries | Thailand, Countries | Timor-Leste, Countries | Vanuatu, Countries | Vietnam, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Marine Features | Strait of Malacca, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Banda Sea, Regional Seas | Celebes Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Gulf of Thailand, Regional Seas | Java Sea, Regional Seas | Philippine Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | South China Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, Remote Sensing | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 5.6 - Designing the Aesthetics Long Term Monitoring Program (ALTMP), 2019-2020 (CSIRO)

Aesthetic condition and trend of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are critical to monitor for the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program (RIMReP), and World Heritage Area reporting. This research project designed and implemented an aesthetics long term monitoring program (ALTMP) for the GBR. It included a strong research component that identified how to convert a subjective measurement into an objective one. Baseline data was also provided to represent a snapshot of aesthetic condition at a large number of below-water and above-water sites within the GBR, and for a range of stakeholders.

This project builds on the work undertaken by:



NESP TWQ Project 3.2.3 - Monitoring aesthetic value of the GBR by using artificial intelligence to score photos and videos

NESP TWQ Project 3.2.4 - Defining, assessing and monitoring Great Barrier Reef aesthetics


Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network