Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 - Meso-scale Bioregions

ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 - Meso-scale Bioregions
Alternate titles:  MARINE_SDE.imcra_mesoscale_bioregions

Presentation format:  mapDigital

Unique resource identifier:

Party responsible for the resource - custodian: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Party responsible for the resource - publisher: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Metadata Publisher

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: (02) 6274 1111
Fax: (02) 6274 1333
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: CANBERRA
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Themes or categories of the resource:  oceans

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Abstract:  An inshore regionalisation of Australian waters derived from biological and physical data, including the distribution of demersal fishes, marine plants and invertebrates, sea floor geomorphology and sediments, and oceanographic data. The meso-scale regionalisation was compiled from information supplied to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and Heritage by the relevant State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth marine research and management agencies. The seaward extent for the meso-scale IMCRA coverage is defined by the 200m isobath except where this boundary extends beyond the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (AEEZ).

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Status:  completed
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  asNeeded


Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:  license

Other constraints: The data are available to the public under licence from Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Limitations of use: None.

Spatial representation type:  vector
Format:
Format name: Feature Class
Format version: 1


Processing environment:  Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362

Spatial resolution:
Dataset's scale:
Scale denominator: 2500000
Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: 112.226159
East longitude: 153.900444
North latitude: -9.131882
South latitude: -44.134865
Supplemental information: published externally

Point of contact - pointOfContact: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite
Object count: 62

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 4283
Code space: EPSG
Version: 9.8(3.0.1)

Data Quality Information:

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset

Lineage:
Lineage statement: &quoteIMCRA v4.0 - meso-scale bioregions&quote is based on IMCRA v3.3 with updates to the coastline, shelf break, a small boundary change in WA, and error corrections in NSW. For IMCRA v3.3 two main approaches were used in integrating existing data received from State and Northern Territory marine conservation agencies: 1. Available regionalisation boundaries and descriptions were interpreted/integrated and transferred onto paper maps, and then these boundaries were digitised; and 2. Where local and sub-regional scale GIS data sets were available, these data/regions were aggregated to derive coarser meso-scale map unit boundaries using a combination of paper-based maps and GIS. For IMCRA v4 the coastline was replaced with the national 100k coastline to provide greater consistency. Note this means that the inshore estuarine data for the NT is no longer included in IMCRA. The Australian EEZ limit was sourced from AMB v2. Based on a decision by the Bioregionalisation Working Group, the shelf break from IMCRA v3.3 was largely retained, although in some instances the shelf break from the NMB (National Marine Bioregionalisation) Provincial Bioregions was used. Updated boundaries for WA and NSW were incoporated based on data supllied from the relevent state agency.

Source data:
Source citation:
Title:  Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4 - Meso-scale Bioregions (c) Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and Heritage. 2006.

Distribution Information:

Distributor:
Distributor information - distributor: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: (02) 6274 1111
Fax: (02) 6274 1333
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: CANBERRA
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Format:
Format name: ArcGIS File geodatabase
Format version: 1

Transfer options:
Format:
Format name: Feature Class

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2010-11-15

Metadata contact - pointOfContact: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007

Metadata identifier: {A0D9F8EE-4261-438A-8ADE-EFF664EFF55C}