Metadata : Land Units of the Alice Springs Area

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Name:AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile

Version:1.0

Date Metadata Extracted:2024-04-30

Date Metadata Last Updated:2010-03-01

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Citation

ANZLIC Identifier:80B5DBF4AECABC86E040CD9B21445E09

Title: Land Units of the Alice Springs Area

Citation Date:2001-01-01

Date Type:creation

Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security


Description

Abstract:

High resolution survey describing/mapping landform, soils and
vegetation. Mapped information describes uniform areas/land units and their
attributes as distinct from reconnaissance level/land system surveys. Information
is generally interpreted to indicate land capability for a range of land uses. (Land
Unit - A reasonably homogeneous part of the land surface, distinct from surrounding
terrain, with constant properties in landform, soils or vegetation) - The survey area
is approximately 310km sq including Alice Springs and some of the surrounding area.

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Dataset Status

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Language:English

Character Set: Latin 1

Progress:completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency:notPlanned

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Access Constraint:

Download the spatial data package (contains spatial data, maps and reports) via data.nt.gov.au/

You are licensed to use the DENR geospatial products on the terms and conditions set out in: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) at: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

If you do not agree to the terms and conditions you must not use the geospatial products.

You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the licensed material, provided that you abide by the licence terms (including Attribution) and attribute the licensed material using the statement:

Supplied by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Copyright Northern Territory Government.


Data Quality

Lineage:Map unit boundaries delineated from aerial photographs. Aerial photography scanned and rectified. Linework digitised on screen directly from original aerial photographs.
Map unit boundaries derived using aerial photography and digital satellite imagery, geological and topographic data. Field data (site information) described and classified according to national standards at the time of capture.
Map unit polygons collected via geographic information system (ARC/MapInfo). Core landform, soil and vegetation attributes attached to map units with additional attributes unique to individual surveys.

Positional Accuracy:1:25,000. Map unit boundaries digitised on screen directly from digital rectified aerial photographs. Level of accuracy depends on the number of control points on individual aerial photographs. Control points include creek lines, cadastre and other topographic features. Depending on the nature of the landscape (the number of control points), positional accuracy may vary. Positional accuracy generally considered high to very high.

Attribute Accuracy:Attributes assigned according to the dominant feature. For example where ten sites have been grouped to describe a particular map unit and two different soils described from these sites then the dominant soil is chosen.

Logical Consistency:GIS editing tools were used to rectify all overshoots and undershoots in linework. Using ArcInfo topographical consistency checks were performed to detect flaws in the spatial data structure. The coverage was cleaned, to eliminate any duplicates arcs. The coverage was built for arcs and polygon topologies. A label errors routine was run to detect unlabelled polygons. A node errors routine was run to identify pseudo nodes and dangles. Checks were done to unsure that all classified polygons are closed, nodes are formed at intersections of lines and that each polygon has only one label.

Completeness:Complete


Contacts

NameOrganisationPositionRolePhoneFaxEmail
Data Requests OfficerDepartment of Environment, Parks and Water SecurityGeospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department)distributordatarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Data Dictionary

No data dictionary defined for this dataset

Supplementary Information

REPORT: Lennartz, R. (2001). The Land Resources in the Alice Springs Area.
DLPE Technical Memorandum TM 01/2001.

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