Aquatic Substrate Library: Spectral Data for Coringa Herald 2006

A 2006 spectral library record for aquatic substrates from the Coringa Herald region, hosted in Australia's National Spectral Database. The data is part of a CSIRO research project on remote sensing for marine protected areas, with related publications from 2010 and 2013. Access is managed by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Calibrating satellite-derived water quality algorithms based on in-situ spectral signatures.
• Training machine learning models for coral detection under varying water conditions, as referenced in the publication.
• Mapping and change detection in tropical marine protected areas, as described in the CSIRO report.

Strengths

• Data is part of a national database (NSD) managed by a government scientific agency (Geoscience Australia).
• Associated with peer-reviewed scientific publications, including in Remote Sensing of Environment (2013).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data via data_gov_au.

Collection Method

Likely collected via field spectrometry for aquatic substrates.

Time Range

2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 01:20:00.699760; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Coringa Herald region (likely part of Australia's marine territory).