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Seascapes for the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seabed

Created 26/03/2026

Updated 26/03/2026

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Seascapes describing a layer of ecologically meaningful biophysical variable that spatially represent potential seabed habitats have been derived for the Australian margin and adjacent seabed in a new analysis of existing biophysical data. A total of 13 seascapes were derived for the continental shelf and nine seascapes for regions beyond the continental shelf using the unsupervised ISOCLASS classification in the software package ERMapper. The ecological significance of the seascapes is assessed at the national, regional and local scale using existing biological data. Options and avenues for future development are also described.

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Title Seascapes for the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seabed
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/aae25c72-5aa2-4bff-b6f7-8413e05cff35
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 10/11/2025
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        110.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -50.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Seascapes for the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seabed". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/seascapes-for-the-australian-margin-and-adjacent-seabed10