Aquatic Substrate Spectral Library for South West Australia, 2008

A National Spectral Database record for marine habitats on the south coast of Western Australia. The dataset likely contains spectral signatures of aquatic substrates collected via remote sensing in 2008. It was created by researchers from the National Research Flagship Wealth from Oceans program.

Use Cases

• Map previously unmapped marine habitats based on spectral signatures.
• Develop remote sensing algorithms for aquatic substrate classification.
• Validate satellite-derived habitat maps using ground-truth spectral data.
• Analyze the spectral properties of different marine substrates.

Strengths

• Dataset is part of the authoritative National Spectral Database.
• Focuses on previously unmapped marine habitats, suggesting novel coverage.
• Associated with a published report and DOI (10.3390/rs12142247).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-05-05.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via data.gov.au

Collection Method

Remote sensing data collection.

Time Range

2008

Geography

South coast of Western Australia