Geophysical Information for Marine Protected Area Design in Southeastern Australia

Geophysical information supporting the design of a representative Marine Protected Area network in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone. The data relates to the implementation of the 1998 Oceans Policy and the first regional marine planning process initiated in 2003 for the southeast region. The article is sourced from Geoscience Australia Data and was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Designing a network of representative Marine Protected Areas based on geophysical information.
• Informing regional marine planning processes for Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.
• Supporting the implementation of the 1998 Australian Oceans Policy.

Strengths

• Data is directly tied to a formal government policy (1998 Oceans Policy).
• Focuses on the first region (southeastern Australia) to undergo the marine planning process in 2003.
• Sourced from Geoscience Australia Data, a national geoscience agency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the data_gov_au platform.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Planning process initiated in 2003, based on policy from 1998.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:18:18.822293; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southeastern Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.