Annual time-series of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from Digital Earth Australia maps mangrove, saltmarsh, intertidal, and intertidal seagrass ecosystems across Australia at 10-meter resolution. The dataset supports national environmental accounting and coastal management efforts. It is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- National Environmental Ecosystem Accounts based on mapped ecosystem extents.
- State of the Environment reporting based on consistent continental-scale mapping.
- Coastal protection and hazard modelling based on identified ecosystem locations.
- Filling spatial and temporal gaps in higher-resolution expert mapping.
- Future integration with terrestrial and ocean datasets like Land Cover and Marine Tenure.
Strengths
- First national dataset to simultaneously map four key coastal ecosystems.
- Provides consistent continental-scale mapping at 10-meter resolution.
- Uses annual time-series of publicly available Sentinel-2 imagery.
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
- Collection Method
- Derived from Earth Observation (EO) using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
- Geography
- Australia