Tasmanian Oil Spill Response Shoreline Types

This data set spatially depicts shoreline types useful for responding to an oil spill in Tasmanian State coastal waters as specified by the Oil Spill Response Atlas project. The data consists of a landform map of the coastline from Sandy Cape clockwise to Port Davey. The coastline has been mapped from current and earlier (1978) airphoto interpretation, current topographic and geological maps, and limited ground truthing. The landform map comprises a single line mapped into segments at 1:25,000 scale and tagged with a descriptive characterisation of the intertidal shoreline landforms in each segment (s_type), and a characterisation of the major geomorphic controls on coastal landform development in each segment (reg_code). The coastal landform types (s_types) have been coded as NOAA codes as per the AMSA Data Dictionary Appendix 2 and have been attributed according to likely oiling persistence and trafficability.The data have been presented in a format which will be compatible with numerous other coastal management and research applications. A data dictionary accompanying the data set gives a detailed explanation. The basic data set was compiled by Chris Sharples and Richard Mount, DPIWE Jul - Nov 1999. The base data is currently held in AGD66 geographicals (ie Latitude Longitude).