Full description
Survey data from the Australian Marine Debris Initiative and the result of spatial analysis from multiple creative commons datasets.
Data consists of:
• Spatial Data Queensland Coastline – Event summaries within an Excel data table and shapefile
• All years
• Number of Items removed, Weight volunteers, Volume, Distance, Latitude and Longitude.
• Contributing organisation files table/ sites
• Environmental, physical and biological variables associated with the closest catchment to each debris survey.
TBF has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information in the Custom Dataset is accurate. TBF will not be held responsible:
• for the way these data are used by the Entity for their Reports;
• for any errors that may be contained in the Custom Dataset; or
• any direct or indirect damage the use of the Custom Dataset may cause.
Data collected by TBF comes from citizen science initiatives and is taken at face value from contributors with each entry being vetted and periodic checks being made to maintain the integrity of the overall dataset. Some clean-up data has been extrapolated by data collectors. Some weight and distance details have not been provided by contributors.
The data was collected by various organisations and individuals in clean-up events at their chosen locations where man-made items greater than 5mm were removed from the beach, and sorted, counted and recorded on data sheets, using CyberTracker software devices or the AMDI mobile application. Items were identified according to the method laid out in the TBF Marine Debris Identification Manual in which items are grouped according to their material categories (the manual is available on the TBF website). The length of beach cleaned is at the discretion of the clean-up group and the total weight of items removed is either weighed with handheld scales or estimated.