Brief description
The goal of the program was developing comprehensive inventories and maps of the distribution and abundance of physical and biological seabed habitats, seagrasses and benthic assemblages to provide baseline environmental mapping and a description of ecological patterns. The benthic habitat mapping was performed by utilising R/Python and Maxent software within the species distribution modelling domain. We correlated the probability of occurrence of individual benthic habitat classes with the environmental predictors developed form the multibeam hydroacoustic dataset. The data is presented as a maximum likelihood map incorporating all five prediction classes: (1- Macroalgae; 2- Filter Feeders; 3- Seagrass; 4- Hard Corals; 5- Bare seafloor). An updated version of this data are available (2022) Revised predictive benthic habitat map for Darwin Harbour. Report prepared for Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, 127 pp.Lineage
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CreditGeoscience Australia (GA)
Funding Body: Offset funds from INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project to DENR, and co-investments from GA and AIMS.
Department of Land Resource Management, Northern Territory Government (DLRM)
Modified: 17 10 2024
Data time period: 2014-01-01 to 2018-06-30
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(ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION - Technical report)
1=Macroalgae; 2=Filter Feeders; 3=Seagrass; 4=Hard Corals; 5=Bare seafloor (DATA ACCESS opt 2 - Download in .tif format)
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