AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
NESP TWQ Project 5.12 - Scoping land use conversion options for high DIN risk, low-lying sugarcane areas in Burdekin and Mackay Whitsunday regions, 2019-2020 (JCU)

The Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan and Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan 2017-2022 have set ambitious targets for Great Barrier Reef (GBR) water quality improvement. Indeed, Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIP) for most NRMs in the Great Barrier Reef catchments recognise that complete adoption of sugar cane best management practices will still not be sufficient to achieve the nitrogen load reductions required to meet the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Water Quality Guidelines. Thus additional options need to be considered transitioning agricultural land to other uses is one of those options. Here we capitalise on existing evaluation frameworks developed in NESP TWQ Project 2.1.2, as we aim to;



identify possible alternate land uses in coastal low-lying cane land, that has a high DIN loss;

quantify the economic costs of changing land use, and market mechanisms to incentivise this transition (e.g. Reef Credits); and

explore benefits (e.g. farm profitability) of land transition.


This project will better define options land use change across two NRMs that have different climatic conditions, industry groups, water boards and potentially different land use transitions.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NERP TE Project 13.1 - e-Atlas, 2011-2014 (AIMS)

The e-Atlas is a website and mapping system for presenting environmental research data in an accessible form that promotes greater use of this information. It is also a data management system for preserving and encouraging reuse of this data. The e-Atlas is the primary data and knowledge repository for 38 NERP Tropical Ecosystems Hub projects, 6 Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program projects and historically, the Marine and Tropical Science Research Facility. 

This project will:





Document (website and metadata), capture (repository) and visualise (mapping services) research outcomes of all NERP TE Hub projects in a readily accessible manner following the NERP TE Data Management Guidelines. These products will be made available in standard services (WMS, WFS, ISO19115, etc) following the National Plan for Environment Information (NPEI). 




Develop visualisations for all NERP TE Hub spatial and non-spatial data and make them available in a manner suitable for fostering research collaboration and to develop key datasets for use by environmental managers and policy makers.




Expand the range of reference datasets in the e-Atlas that complement available research data as well as maintain and upgrade existing content in the e-Atlas (MTSRF data).




Develop a Torres Strait e-Atlas that will make available Torres Strait content from NERP TE research, TSRA data and priority historical CSIRO data. This project will also develop a baselayer for the Torres Strait community based on Landsat imagery, QLD government aerial imagery, TSRA data and the development of a reef's dataset. 




Develop the e-Atlas systems (mapping system, data processing tools, metadata system and website) to best meet the needs of the end users.



Tags: National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Commercial Line, Net and Trawl Fisheries Active Licenses, Effort days, Harvest Weight and GVP - 2013 (DAFF, SELTMP)

This dataset contains Active Licenses, Effort days, Harvest Weight and GVP for the Queensland commercial harvest, line, net, pot and trawl fisheries. The data is provided on a 30 min grid for locations where there are more than 5 licensed operators.

Commercial fishers and charter fishers are required by law to complete daily logbooks. Commercial fishing logbooks are used to record: overall catch, time spent fishing, location where catch was taken and fishing equipment used. This data is then managed by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). 

This dataset consists of 20 layers (Active Licenses, Effort days, Harvest Weight and GVP) x (commercial harvest, line, net, pot and trawl fisheries). 

This metadata is not authoritative and was developed as part of the eAtlas project. The shapefiles associated with this dataset were compiled by the SELTMP team.

Tags: marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - SST - L3S - Single Sensor - 1 day - day and night time - Southern Ocean

This is a single-sensor 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 Southern Ocean region 3°E to 158°W, 27°S to 78°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 - Southern Ocean (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4a136fc6-3ac7-4af1-870f-f5827d6dfcb4).

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Countries | New Zealand, 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, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Remote Sensing | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Sentinel-2 UTM Tiling Grid (ESA)

This dataset shows the tiling grid and their IDs for Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. The tiling grid IDs are useful for selecting imagery of an area of interest.

Sentinel 2 is an Earth observation satellite developed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). Its imagery has 13 bands in the visible, near infrared and short wave infrared part of the spectrum. It has a spatial resolution of 10 m, 20 m and 60 m depending on the spectral band. 

Sentinel-2 has a 290 km field of view when capturing its imagery. This imagery is then projected on to a UTM grid and made available publicly on 100x100 km2 tiles. Each tile has a unique ID. This ID scheme allows all imagery for a given tile to be located.

Provenance:

The ESA make the tiling grid available as a KML file (see links). We were, however, unable to convert this KML into a shapefile for deployment on the eAtlas. The shapefile used for this layer was sourced from the Git repository developed by Justin Meyers (https://github.com/justinelliotmeyers/Sentinel-2-Shapefile-Index).

Why is this dataset in the eAtlas?:

Sentinel 2 imagery is very useful for the studying and mapping of reef systems. Selecting imagery for study often requires knowing what the tile grid IDs are for the area of interest. This dataset is intended as a reference layer. The eAtlas is not a custodian of this dataset and copies of the data should be obtained from the original sources.

Data Dictionary:



Name: UTM code associated with each tile. For example 55KDV


Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A community survey of climate change and the Great Barrier Reef, 2009 (MTSRF 4.8.5, JCU)

This dataset provides information about the Australian community's awareness, concern and actions regarding climate change and the GBR. It was aimed at providing a tool for developing effective engagement strategies and future climate change human dimensions research. The dataset contains data from 1,609 telephone surveys of people residing adjacent to the GBR and in the capital cities of Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney conducted in November 2008.

Data Units: Quantitative data regarding Australian residents' attitudes, perceptions, knowledge, and concern about climate change and the GBR.

Tags: marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Seabird life history and climate variation on the Great Barrier Reef, 2001 - 2010 (MTSRF 2.5i.2, JCU)

To date the seabird research program has:



Quantified how increases in El-Nino intensity and sea-surface temperatures (SST) result in decreased breeding participation, increased foraging effort, reduced food availability, poor chick growth and/or reproductive failure across multiple seabird species in both the northern and southern GBR.

Identified important seabird foraging areas/regions that the lie both within and outside the GBR region

Identified physiochemical and oceanographic correlates associated with both the important foraging areas and El-Nino/SST impacts

Examined the relative impacts of other anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic stressors such as cyclone frequency and tourist visitation rates at a key breeding site

Examined the ability of multiple pelagic foraging seabird species to copy with climate related changes in food availability via behavioural and/or developmental plasticity.


References:
- Devney et al. 2009 Sensitivity of tropical seabirds to El Niño precursors Ecology 90:1175-1183
- Congdon et al. 2007 Vulnerability of seabirds on the Great Barrier Reef to climate change In: Johnson J. &amp; Marshall P. (eds) Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef. GBRMPA, Canberra
- Erwin &amp; Congdon 2007 Day-to-day variation in sea-surface temperature reduces sooty tern  foraging success on the GBR. MEPS 331:255-266
- Congdon et al. 2005 Dual-foraging and co-ordinated provisioning in a tropical Procellariiform MEPS 301:293-301
- Peck et al. 2004 Sea-surface temperature constrains wedge-tailed shearwater foraging success within breeding seasons MEPS 281:259-266
- Smithers et al. 2003 Elevated sea-surface temperature reduced provisioning and reproductive failure of wedge-tailed shearwaters in the Southern GBR. Marine &amp; Freshwater Research 55:973-977

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
eAtlas THREDDS service (AIMS)

The eAtlas delivers its NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) data file using a THREDDS Data Server (TDS), which provides metadata and data access using OPeNDAP, OGC WMS and WCS, HTTP, and other remote data access protocols.

The services delivers data, matadata and map layers associated with the eAtlas project (https://eatlas.org.au). The data focus on environmental research on the Great Barrier Reef and its neighbouring coast, the Wet Tropics rainforests and Torres Strait. The map layers served by the WMS service can be used to create environmental maps when combine with other dataset such as the layers provided by the eAtlas Web Mapping Service (https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/71127e4d-9f14-4c57-9845-1dce0b541d8d).

This web map service is predominantly set up and maintained for delivery of visualisations through the eAtlas mapping portal (https://maps.eatlas.org.au). Other portals are free to use this service with attribution, provided you inform us with an email so we can let you know of any changes to the service.

This THREDDS Data Server software is hosted on a Amazon Web Services (AWS) server. Associated with each NetCDF dataset, there is a list of corresponding WMS layers, one for each data variable, which can be discovered by inspecting the corresponding GetCapabilities document. This XML document lists all the layers, a short descriptions and available rendering styles. Most WMS clients should be able to read those documents allowing easy access to all the variables for a given NetCDF dataset.

This services is operated by the Australian Institute of Marine Science and co-funded by the National Environmental Science Program Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) Hub.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Designated Shipping Areas (GBRMPA)

There are 10 major trading ports along the Great Barrier Reef coast. The waters of most of these ports are within the Great Barrier Reef Region, but not within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

In recognition of the outstanding values of the Great Barrier Reef, there are stringent management arrangements for commercial shipping in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, which is designated a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area by the International Maritime Organisation. Shipping traffic is confined to Designated Shipping Areas in the Great Barrier Reef Region.

This dataset shows the boundaries of the Designated Shipping Areas of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park proclaimed under Section 59 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (CTH) and described in in Part 10 of Schedule 1 of the Great Barrier Reef Zoning Plan 2003. 

This metadata record was created for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please contact GBRMPA for more information. To obtain this dataset go to the GBRMPA spatial information website, download the appropriate data usage agreement and send it through to gis@gbrmpa.gov.au.

To cite this dataset in the eAtlas:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, (2004). Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Designated Shipping Areas. eAtlas Archive. https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/bd292772-4fef-4fa0-87b2-bf35367c06f2

Tags: Human Dimensions | Boundaries | Administrative Divisions, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Abalone fishing block 30 - High resolution acoustic data of reef habitat

The principle aim of this project was to map the fine-scale spatial distribution of key abalone habitat impacted by urchins in &lt; 25 m water depth using multibeam acoustic imagery. Detailed substrate type (Pavement Reef, Megaclast Reef, Mixed Consolidated Sediment/Reef and Sand), and kelp coverage maps have been produced for the east coast of Tasmania. Large urchin barrens have been predicted and the minimum quantifiable unit of which small incipient barrens can be detected has been identified using this acoustic water column technique.

This data provides a snapshot of the 2021 distribution of seafloor habitats and associated vegetation distribution, and will assist in the facilitation of strategic decision making for urchin control and abalone management.

Data for download has been split by fishing block (22-24, 27-30). This record describes FISHING BLOCK 30. The following data products are available for download, for each fishing block:
• 50cm resolution bathymetry
• 50cm resolution substrate type (Seamap Australia classification)
• bathymetry derivatives (seabed slope, curvature, rugosity, 1 and 2m contours)
• water column data - 1m mean signal
• water column data - 9m2 raw block statistic
• water column data - vegetation likelihood classification

See associated records for access to data from other fishing blocks (22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29).

Tags: Centrostephanus rogersii, Haliotis rubra
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area - boundary (WTMA)

This dataset contains polygon features that represent the zoning classification of lands within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, according to the Wet Tropics Management Plan 1998.

This dataset is a working depiction only. For legal confirmation, refer to signed maps held at WTMA.
http://www.wettropics.gov.au/boundary-maps

The World Heritage Area boundary is legally defined by Wet Tropics Management Authority (WTMA) WTQ1 SH1-32 series. (Note: Along the coastline, it shall be low water mark). These maps should be referred to for any legal purposes. This dataset is designed to show the intent of these plans relevant to the current Digital Cadastral Data Base (DCDB). Most lines are derived from DCDB, and other lines derived from 1:50,000 topographical data and other sources.

Accuracy
Lines derived from the DCDB were within 1m of the DCDB as at 29/11/2008. Lines that are not derived from the DCDB are approximate only. They were derived from topographic mapping originally, then adjusted to the DCDB in 2002, and then further adjusted as the DCDB was updated since then.

For further information visit the Wet Tropics Management Authority
http://www.wettropics.gov.au/legislation

This metadata was prepared for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please contact the Wet Tropics Management Authority for an authoritative record.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NERP TE Project 1.1 - Monitoring status and trends of coral reefs of the GBR, 2011-2014 (AIMS)

This project will continue a unique data set that documents long-term trends in coral reef communities of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR).  In 2012-13 and 2014-15 the LTMP will resurvey the ‘core’ reefs that have been surveyed since 1992. 

The AIMS LTMP has made intensive surveys of 47 ‘core’ reefs since 1992. The survey reefs are stratified by latitude and position across the GBR lagoon so as to give broad geographic coverage. Divers make intensive surveys on marked transects in one habitat on the selected reefs and the perimeters of the reefs are also surveyed by manta tow to assess densities of crown-of-thorns starfish and estimate reef-wide coral cover. Additional reefs are surveyed by manta tow to give broad-scale information on coral cover, bleaching, coral disease, etc., as well as crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks. Because of concern for their conservation status, reef sharks will also be counted during manta tow surveys.

Outcomes of this project include: Updates on status and temporal trends in coral, fish and crown-of-thorns starfish populations on survey reefs, report on recovery rates and resilience of reefs after cyclones in 2009-2011, report on crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on the GBR and publications on coral and fish dynamics in relation to management and environmental drivers.

Tags: National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NERP TE Project 12.4 - Governance, planning and the effective application of emerging ecosystem service markets to secure climate change adaptation and landscape resilience in Far North Queensland, 2011-2013 (JCU)

This project involved working with a range of stakeholders to identify the most effective governance systems for managing climate change adaptation in the Wet Tropics through the emergence of new ecosystem service markets, including Carbon Farming. The project will directly contribute to: Regional climate change adaptation policies and planning processes, Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisations’ role in guiding emerging carbon markets in Australia and the region.

This project developed:





Detailed Practical Manuals for NRM Bodies concerning planning and carbon market integration in place and training delivered across Queensland regional NRM bodies.




Defined partnership arrangements for refinement of Governance systems, institutional and planning reforms maintained.




Theory based publication on governance systems required for application of ecosystem service market activities against NRM plan objectives.



Tags: National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 1.29 b – NESP Marine and Coastal Hub scoping study: New approaches to monitoring (2022) (CSIRO)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - NESP Marine and Coastal Hub scoping study: New approaches to monitoring. 

Observations of marine species have rapidly diversified over the last decade with increasing numbers of observations collected either through citizen science programs or opportunistically by citizens and then submitted into public databases. The expectation of citizens contributing those data is that the data is incorporated into formal analyses and utilised either for scientific or management purposes, with outcomes that improve current understanding and conservation of marine species. Further, there is increasing reliance on more informal and publicly driven approaches to the collection of observations given the costs of conducting formal surveys particularly if accessing remote regions, or if repetition of collection (across seasons or years) is needed.

Integrating opportunistic observations with more formally collected observations (e.g. those collected through robust survey designs), however, is not straightforward. Traditional approaches to estimating population abundance, changes in species assemblages, abundances and distributions through time require some understanding of the effort associated with those observations and how that effort is also distributed through time; information that is missing from opportunistic observations, given the nature of those observations. Further, many opportunistically collected datasets do not meet the statistical assumptions of many analytical approaches that might be applied to scientific datasets. As a result, opportunistic observations are underutilised at present and are largely only used qualitatively within research applications. 

To take full advantage of this rapidly expanding resource and ensure that efforts associated with the collection of these observations are not wasted, methods that can integrate opportunistically collected data with scientific datasets are needed.

This project represents the first stage in developing integrative methods. It will bring together data holders, quantitative ecologists and statisticians to explore potential approaches that might be applied to facilitate the integration of opportunistic datasets with scientific datasets. In doing so, it will identify what datasets might be best suited to the development of integrative approaches (and what might not) and outline a pathway for developing those methods that could be implemented through a future project

Planned Outputs
 • Workshop
 • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: Coastal Waters (Australia), MARINE, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network