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Mapping of Wetlands in the Northern Territory Portion of the Lake Eyre Basin (incorporating the Pedirka Geological Basin) Stage 2

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Title

Mapping of Wetlands in the Northern Territory Portion of the Lake Eyre Basin (incorporating the Pedirka Geological Basin) Stage 2,

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Water Resources Division, Desert Wildlife Services,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, Technical Report 24/2019,

Date

2018-06,

Location

Northern Territory portion of the Lake Eyre Basin,

Description

Report to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources by Desert Wildlife Services, June 2018,

Abstract

In 2016, a pilot study was conducted to produce a digital map of wetlands in selected test areas and make recommendations for extending the mapping in the wider NT-LEB (see Eldridge 2017). In mid-2017, Stage 2 of the mapping project was instigated by the Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Desert Wildlife Services was engaged to undertake the work. The project aimed to use recommendations from the pilot study to produce detailed wetland mapping (supplied as attributed GIS data) of the Pedirka Geological Basin and beyond, to cover as much of NT-LEB as possible. Mapping began in September 2017 and was completed in May 2018.,

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,

Table of contents

Introduction -- Study Area -- Methods -- Pre-processing of remotely-sensed spatial data -- Northern Territory Surface Inundation Frequency (NT Count) data -- Shortwave Infrared Imagery -- Mapping Grid -- Importing Mapping Grid into Google Earth -- Digitising -- Conversion to Shapefiles -- Merging across Grid Cells -- Attribution -- Results -- Discussion -- Limitations -- Recommendations -- References -- APPENDIX 1. Trial mapping methods and outcomes from the Stage 1 Pilot Study -- APPENDIX 2 Existing wetland data evaluation outcomes from the Stage 1 Pilot study,

Language

English,

Subject

Lake Eyre,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government,

Place of publication

Alice Springs,

Series

Technical Report 24/2019,

Format

76 pages : colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781743502105,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/751499,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/786508