Marine Protected Area Planning Data for Southeastern Australia

Geoscience Australia provides geophysical and geospatial information supporting Marine Protected Area network design in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone. The data underpins regional marine planning processes initiated in 2003 for the southeastern region. Row and column counts are unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyze geophysical information layers to identify candidate sites for a representative Marine Protected Area network.
• Support regional marine planning by integrating Marine Planning and Ocean Policy data for southeastern Australia.
• Apply geospatial analysis to assess financial and ecological trade-offs in Marine Protected Area design.

Strengths

• Data originates from Geoscience Australia, a national geoscience agency.
• Covers the southeastern region of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone, the first area to undergo this planning process.
• Supports a specific government policy framework, the Oceans Policy put forward in 1998.

Limitations

• The core data appears to be an HTML article, not a structured dataset, limiting direct machine-readability.
• Sample data, file size, and specific column schema are unavailable.
• Temporal coverage of the underlying geophysical data is not specified.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

Planning processes referenced began in 2003.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Southeastern region of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.