Geofabric Surface Cartography - V2.1.1

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Metadata language: eng

Metadata character set: utf8

Last update: 2014-08-07

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Individual's name: Geospatial Data Unit

Organization's name: Bureau of Meteorology, Information Systems and Services Division

Contact's position: Geofabric Project Manager

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 GPO Box 2334

City: Canberra

Administrative area: ACT

Postal code: 2601

Country:Australia

e-mail address: ahgf@bom.gov.au

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Citation:

Title: Geofabric Surface Cartography - V2.1.1

Alternate titles: Geofabric Surface Hydrology Cartography 1:250,000 scale 2014,

Reference date - creation: 2011-08

Reference date - publication: 2014-06-20

Reference date - revision: 2014

Other citation details: ANZCW0503900103

Themes or categories of the resource: environment, structure, location, inlandWaters

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Keywords: auxiliary

Citation:

Title: OSDM schedule names

Reference date - revision: 2008-11-10

Edition: Version 1.1

Edition date: 2008-11-10

Party responsible for the resource - custodian:

Organization's name: Office of Spatial Data Management

 The Geofabric Surface Cartography product provides a set of related feature classes to be used as the basis for the production of consistent hydrological cartographic maps. This product contains a geometric representation of the (major) surface water features of Australia (excluding external territories). Primarily, these are natural surface hydrology features but the product also contains some man-made features (notably reservoirs, canals and other hydrographic features). 
The product is fully topologically correct which means that all the stream segments flow in the correct direction.  

This product contains fifteen feature types including: Waterbody, Mapped Stream, Mapped Node, Mapped Connectivity (Upstream), Mapped Connectivity (Downstream), Sea, Estuary, Dam, Structure, Canal Line, Water Pipeline, Terrain Break Line, Hydro Point, Hydro Line and Hydro Area.

 This product contains a geometric representation of the (major) surface water features of ‘geographic Australia’ excluding external territories. It is intended to be used as the basis for the production of consistent hydrological cartographic map products, as well as the visualisation of surface hydrology within a GIS to support the selection of features for inclusion in cartographic map production.
This product can also be used for stream tracing operations both upstream and downstream however, as this is a mapped representation, streams may be represented as interrupted or intermittent features.  In contrast, the Geofabric Surface Network product represents the same stream as a continuous connected feature, that is, the path that stream would take (according to the terrain model) if sufficient water were available for flow.  Therefore, for stream tracing operations where full stream connectivity is required, the Geofabric Surface Network product should be used.

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Limitations of use: Licenced for use under Creative Commons Australia Attribution. We request attribution as © Commonwealth of Australia (Bureau of Meteorology) 2014

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Limitations of use: Licenced for use under Creative Commons Australia Attribution. We request attribution as © Commonwealth of Australia (Bureau of Meteorology) 2014.

 Geoscience Australia

 CSIRO, Water for a Healthy Country

 ANU, Fenner School of Environment and Society

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Value: 4283

Value: GCS_GDA_1994

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 Geofabric Surface Cartography is part of a suite of Geofabric products produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The source data input for the Geofabric Surface Cartography product is the AusHydro v1.7.2 (AusHydro) surface hydrology data set. The AusHydro database provides a seamless surface hydrology layer for Australia at a nominal scale of 1:250,000. It consists of lines, points and polygons representing natural and man-made features such as watercourses, lakes, dams and other water bodies. The natural watercourse layer consists of a linear network with a consistent topology of links and nodes that provide directional flow paths through the network for hydrological analysis. 

This network was used to produce the GEODATA 9 Second Digital Elevation Model (DEM-9S) Version 3 of Australia (https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno=66006).

Geofabric Surface Cartography is an amalgamation of two primary datasets.  The first is the hydrographic component of the GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 3 (GEODATA 3) product released by Geoscience Australia (GA) in 2006. The GEODATA 3 dataset contains the following hydrographic features: canal lines, locks, rapid lines, spillways, waterfall points, bores, canal areas, flats, lakes, pondage areas, rapid areas, reservoirs, springs, watercourse areas, waterholes, water points, marine hazard areas, marine hazard points and foreshore flats.  
It also provides information on naming, hierarchy and perenniality. The dataset also contains cultural and transport features that may intersect with hydrographic features. These include: railway tunnels, rail crossings, railway bridges, road tunnels, road bridges, road crossings, water pipelines. 
Refer to the GEODATA 3 User Guide  http://www.ga.gov.au/meta/ANZCW0703008969.html for additional information.

The second primary dataset is based on the GEODATA TOPO-250K Series 1 (GEODATA 1) watercourse lines completed by GA in 1994, which was supplemented by additional line work captured by the Australian National University (ANU) during the production of the DEM-9S to improve the representation of surface water flow. This natural watercourse dataset consists of directional flow paths and provides a direct link to the flow paths derived from the DEM. There are approximately 700,000 more line segments in this version of the data.

AusHydro uses the natural watercourse geometry from the ANU enhanced GEODATA 1 data, and the attributes (names, perenniality and hierarchy) associated with GEODATA 3 to produce a fully attributed data set with topologically correct flow paths. The attributes from GEODATA 3 were attached using spatial queries to identify common features between the two datasets. Additional semi-automated and manual editing was undertaken to ensure consistent attribution along the entire network.

AusHydro dataset includes a unique identifier for each line, point and polygon. AusHydro-ID will be used to maintain the dataset and to incorporate higher resolution datasets in the future. The AusHydro-ID will be linked to the ANUDEM streams through a common segment identifier and ultimately to a set of National Catchments Boundaries (NCBs).
Processing steps: 

1. AusHydro Surface Hydrology dataset is received and loaded into the Geofabric development GIS environment
2. feature classes from AusHydro are recomposed into composited Geofabric hydrography dataset feature classes in the Geofabric Maintenance Geodatabase.
3. re-composited feature classes in the Geofabric Maintenance Geodatabase Hydrography Dataset are assigned unique Hydro-IDs using ESRI ArcHydro for Surface Water (ArcHydro: 1.4.0.180 and ApFramework: 3.1.0.84)
4. feature classes from the Geofabric Maintenance Geodatabase hydrography dataset are extracted and reassigned to the Geofabric Surface Cartography  Feature Dataset within the Geofabric Surface Cartography  Geodatabase.

A complete set of data mappings, from input source data to Geofabric Products, is included in the Geofabric Product Guide, Appendices.

Changes at v2.1
    ! New Water Storages in the WaterBody FC.

Changes at v2.1.1
    ! 16 New BoM Water Storages attributed in the AHGFWaterBody feature class
    and 1 completely new water storage feature added.

    - Correction to spelling of Numeralla river in AHGFMappedStream (formerly
    Numaralla).

    - Flow direction of Geometric Network set.

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Distributor information - pointOfContact:

Individual's name: Geospatial Data Unit

Organization's name: Bureau of Meteorology, Information Systems and Services Division

Contact's position: Geofabric Project Manager

Contact information:

Phone:

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Address:

Delivery point:

 GPO Box 2334

City: Canberra

Administrative area: ACT

Postal code: 2601

Country:Australia

e-mail address: ahgf@bom.gov.au

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Format name: ESRI File Geodatabase

Format version: V 9.3

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Name of resource: Downloadable Data

Online location:http://www.bom.gov.au/water/geofabric/download.shtml