Australian Estuaries Database - CAMRIS

Brief description

CAMRIS incorporates the Australian estuarine database, which includes the National Estuaries Study (Bucher and Saenger 1989). Attributes include location, name, climatic variables, run-off coefficients, land use, flood frequency, water quality, habitat types including seagrass/mangrove/saltmarsh, fisheries/conservation/amenity values, administration, literature and threats.
CAMRIS, standing for the Coastal and Marine Resources Information System, is a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology is the custodian of the 'coastal' subset of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS). Coastal ARIS became the core dataset of the CAMRIS project. The Coastal ARIS database was developed from a coastal inventory developed by Galloway et al. This inventory contained relatively large scale data including landform, geology, vegetation, soil, land use, climate and population information for each of 3027 3x10km sections around the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania, but excluding offshore islands.
NOTE for Shapefile version:
Item names in the ArcView Shapefile for download have been altered due to a 10 character fieldname limitation in the DBF file.
Estuary.shp
RUNOFF_COEF becomes R_off_coef
MAX_TIDAL_RANGE becomes Mx_tid_rng
SAND-MUD_AREA becomes Sdmud_area
MANGROVE_AREA becomes Mgrve_area
SEAGRASS_AREA becomes Sgras_area
SALTMARSH_AREA becomes Smrsh_area
ESTUARINE_AREA becomes Estua_area
GALLOWAY_SECTION becomes Gallwy_sct
LANDUSE_CODE becomes Lnduse_cde
FLOOD_REGIME becomes Flood_rgme
MANGROVE_COVER becomes Mgrove_cvr
SEAGRASS_COVER becomes Sgrass_cvr
SALTMARSH_COVER becomes Smarsh_cvr
FISH_THREAT becomes Fsh_threat
CONS_THREAT becomes Con_threat
AMENITY_VALUE becomes Amenity_vl

Lineage

Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned

Statement: ERIN: Projected the estuaries point coverage to geographics with the WGS84 spheroid. The coverage has been attributed with information taken from the Bucher and Saenger (1989) National estuaries inventory.
CSIRO: Data were stored in VAX files, MS-DOS R-base files and as a microcomputer dataset accessible under the LUPIS (Land Use Planning Information System) land allocation package. CAMRIS was established using SPANS Geographic Information System (GIS) software running under a UNIX operating system on an IBM RS 6000 platform. A summary of data processing follows:
1. r-BASE: Information imported into r-BASE from a number of different sources (ie Digitised, scanned, CD-ROM, NOAA World Ocean Atlas, Atlas of Australian Soils, NOAA GEODAS archive and Complete book of Australian Weather).
2. From the information held in r-BASE a BASE Table was generated incorporating specific fields.
3. SPANS environment: Works on creating a UNIVERSE with a geographic projection - Equidistant Conic (Simple Conic) and Lambert Conformal Conic, Spheroid: International Astronomical Union 1965 (Australia/Sth America); the Lower left corner and the longitude and latitude of the centre point.
4. BASE Table imported into SPANS and a BASE Map generated.
5. Categorise Maps - created from the BASE map and table by selecting out specified fields, a desired window size (ie continental or continent and oceans) and resolution level (ie the quad tree level).
6. Rasterise maps specifying key parameters such as: number of bits, resolution (quad tree level 8 lowest - 16 highest) and the window size (usually 00 or cn).
7. Gifs produced using categorised maps with a title, legend, scale and long/lat grid.
8. Supplied to ERIN with .bil; .hdr; .gif; Arc export files .e00; and text files .asc and .txt formats.
9. The reference coastline for CAMRIS was the mean high water mark (AUSLIG 1:100 000 topographic map series).

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Credit
CSIRO Australia