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Habitat Sampling Initiative

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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An overview of benthic habitat surveys in Western Australia, combining surveys from multiple State Government agencies, research institutions and Universities. Disclaimer: The map is in development and does not show real or comprehensive survey data until this message disappears. Contributing data Attendees of the Managing Coastal Vulnerability workshop can:

Register your account and contact us. We will give you write permission by making you admin or editor of your organisation, and member of the Habitat Sampling Initiative Group. Add metadata for your data by creating a dataset, attach a GeoJSON (QGIS video tutorial, save as CRS EPSG 4326/WGS84) or KML file of your surveyed transects (including survey date or period in site attributes if possible) as resources, and add the dataset to the group Habitat Sampling Initiative. Add the link to your access-restricted data on Pawsey as another resource to the dataset. Add any other public data resource here if and when appropriate. Use the CKAN API to upload metadata from your existing catalogues following these examples.

Discovering data The following resources give an interactive overview of all Habitat Sampling Initiative datasets:

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Habitat Sampling Initiative
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f299f8c6-5913-4628-9dfb-514a46725204
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
Florian.Mayer@dpaw.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2000 - 13/10/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Habitat Sampling Initiative". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/habitat-sampling-initiative