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High resolution spatial imagery (Quickbird) acquired for Australia's coastline

Monitoring coastal habitat extent and condition has been made a little easier due to the strategic investment in high resolution images for selected priority areas around Australia’s coastline

Acid Sulfate Soil Assessment

Coastal, Inland and Minesite Conditions

In this audit, key information and results from the following three Australian acid sulfate soil (ASS) weathering environments should be brought together and assessed: coastal ASS (tidal mangrove swamps) inland ASS (non-tidal scalds driven by saline acid-sulfate discharge conditions) minesite ASS (waste rock stockpiles or (more)...

A framework for assessing the health of coastal waters: Qld trial

While the assessment framework and indicators described in this report are for use by a range of stakeholders from community to state government, the report is specifically written for the NLWRA (as a final report on a project to trial the national set of 19 estuarine, coastal and marine resource condition indicators in Queensland). As such it contains information and data that is in excess of the needs of the intended users. The purpose of the indicators provided (more)...

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Coasts, estuarine and marine: status of information for repoting against indicators

Status of information for repoting against indicators under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

Effective management of natural resources requires good quality data and information at the right level of detail to be available for those who need it. Australia invests significant resources each year in the collection and maintenance of data to inform natural resource management decisions. Since 1997, the National Land & Water Resources Audit has played a vital role in the national coordination, collation and reporting of this information. The Audit (more)...

Trialling NRM Resource Condition Indicators in the Coastal Zone

The first part of this project was designed to carry out the documentation process. The result is a set of resource documents, known as the Tasmanian Indicator Compendium, which incorporates a Tasmanian Extension document for each Indicator. The Compen