A spectral library for aquatic substrates hosted in Australia's National Spectral Database. The data originates from a CSIRO report on remote sensing for habitat mapping in Commonwealth marine protected areas. The record was last updated on 2026-05-05.
Use Cases
- Habitat classification based on spectral signatures.
- Change detection in marine protected areas based on spectral library comparisons.
- Developing remote sensing algorithms for aquatic substrate mapping.
Strengths
- Data is part of the authoritative National Spectral Database.
- Associated with a published CSIRO report from 2009.
- Last updated date is provided: 2026-05-05.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- CSIRO, Australia.
- Collection Method
- Remote sensing.
- Time Range
- 2008.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 00:32:48.776367; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Lihou Reef, Commonwealth marine protected areas, Australia.