AMSIS: Australian Marine Spatial Information System for Decision Support

A web-based interactive mapping and decision support system maintained by Geoscience Australia, last updated on 2026-04-20. It integrates curated government, state, and academic data to visualize competing interests in Australia's marine jurisdiction. The system organizes information into themes including Maritime Boundaries, Petroleum, Fisheries, Environment, Native Title, and Regulation.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries and jurisdictional zones based on the described boundary themes.
• Analyzing spatial overlap and competition between petroleum exploration and fisheries activities based on the competing use layers.
• Assessing environmental constraints for marine planning based on the environment theme layers.
• Supporting regulatory decision-making by integrating native title and general regulation information.

Strengths

• Integrates curated data from multiple authoritative sources across government, state, and academia.
• Organizes information into specific, decision-relevant themes such as Petroleum, Fisheries, and Environment.
• Maintained by Geoscience Australia, a national geoscience agency.

Limitations

• Information is not warranted to be correct; users must consult metadata and regulating agencies before decisions.
• Row count and specific column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The primary file format is HTML, which may not be directly machine-readable for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, in collaboration with other Australian Government agencies, Industry, and Academia.

Collection Method

Curated and integrated from across government, state, and academic sources.

Time Range

The best available information at the time of publication; specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 01:00:48.975019.

Geography

Australian Marine Jurisdiction.