Murray-Darling Basin Authority provides 124 hydrologic indicator sites selected to represent environmental water requirements and flow needs for river valleys. The dataset includes three sites added for the Northern Basin Review and was last updated on 2026-04-26. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, GEOJSON, KML, and WMS.
Use Cases
- Modeling environmental water requirements based on the described hydrologic indicator sites.
- Assessing the sensitivity of river systems to water extraction based on the selection criteria for sites.
- Mapping the spatial distribution of key environmental monitoring points based on the provided geospatial data.
- Evaluating the broader environmental flow needs of river valleys based on the representative sites and flows.
Strengths
- Contains 124 precisely defined hydrologic indicator sites.
- Includes three additional sites specifically added for the Northern Basin Review.
- Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML, WMS, WFS).
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Murray-Darling Basin Authority
- Collection Method
- Points selected to cover specified environmental objectives, targets, and water requirements.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-26 17:43:24.667643; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Murray-Darling Basin, Australia