2DBCB7711FB006B6E040CD9B0F274EFEEnglishEnvironment AustraliaEnvironment Australia02 6274 175002 6274 1771edward.kleverlaan@ea.gov.au2000-01-14AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile1.0Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia (Mesoscale), (IMCRA)2000-01-14ANZNT0001000024This dataset is a subset of the IMCRA dataset held by Environment Australia, which has been clipped to cover the region under the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory, and immediate surrounds. It is a regionalisation of the Australian coastal waters to the Australian 200 meter isobath derived from biological and physical data, (eg. coastal geomorphology, tidal attributes, oceanography, bathymetry, intertidal invertebrates). Attributes include: named regions and their location(s) within provinces. Data were compiled for Version 3.1 from the most up-to-date data available as of 7 March 1997. The meso-scale regionalisation was compiled from information supplied to Environment Australia by the relevant State, Northen Territory and Commonwealth marine research and management agencies. The outer seaward extent for the meso-scale IMCRA coverage is defined by the 200m isobath except where this boundary extends beyond the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (AEEZ). Attributes in the coverage include: VERSION-NO = the version number of the coverage. CONT_NAME = the name of the IMCRA region. CONT_NAME-EXT = the name of IMCRA region with it's three letter code. STATE = State/ Territory in which IMCRA region occurs. ST_NUM = unique number corresponding to each State/ Territory or an overlap in jurisdictions. PROVINCE-NAME = broad scale regional provinces PROVINCE-NUM = unique number for each broad scale province.This Department has been granted permission by Environment Australia, to display the data as images over the Internet, via the NT Node of the Australian Coastal Atlas. Contact Environment Australia for access to the digital data.English-17.998656-4.998617121.001251141.0011431995-03-011997-03-07datasetnot knownComplete as at 7 March 1997 (version 3.1) for all of Australia. Inshore esturaine areas only covered for the Northern Territory in this version.0not knownVariable. Inshore Estuarine coverage received from the Northern Territory provided marginal marine/estuarine data which is discontinued into the Western Australian and Queensland regions.0not knownVariable: data compiled at scales varying between 1:100,000 and 1:2,500,000, giving a locational accuracy varying between 100-2,500 m0not knownNo particular tests conducted by EA. Attributes are assumed to be correct as received from State and Northern Territory contributors.0Two main approaches were used in integrating data existing data received from State and Northern Territory marine conservation agencies. 1. available regionalisation boundaries and descriptions were interpreted/integrated and transferred onto paper maps, and then these boundaries were digitised; and 2. where local and sub-reginal-scale GIS data sets were available, these data/regions were aggregated to derive coarser meso-scale map unit boundaries using a combination of paper-based maps and GIS. More details on individual coverages comprising the meso-scale IMCRA (3.1) are available at the ERIN WWW site at: http://www.environment.gov.au/net/imcra.html, in Appendix 2 of the IMCRA Technical Group (1997) report.