CAMRIS Seagrass Dataset

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

This data contains information about the distribution of seagrass around the Australian coastline. It was prepared by Dr. Hugh Kirkman (CSIRO Division of Fisheries) from a review of published and unpublished sources, and updated by Dr. Ian Hahmdorf, (Bureau of Rural Sciences). General info: 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 was 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.

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Field Value
Title CAMRIS Seagrass Dataset
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e8fba32b-21e7-4889-946c-6640655b9e11
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
CSIROEnquiries@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1995 - 31/12/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.97589,
        -43.55829
      ],
      [
        153.558864,
        -43.55829
      ],
      [
        153.558864,
        -9.04141
      ],
      [
        112.97589,
        -9.04141
      ],
      [
        112.97589,
        -43.55829
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "CAMRIS Seagrass Dataset". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/camris-seagrass-dataset