Australian Environmental Water Monitoring Sample Points

Monitoring locations for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's Flow-MER program and Long Term Intervention Monitoring project. The dataset includes sample points from the Monitoring Data Management System, covering Selected Area monitoring sites and Basin stream-flow gauging model nodes. It was created by the Flow-MER program and Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, with data collection spanning from 2014 to 2023.

Use Cases

• Mapping monitoring site density and distribution across the Murray-Darling Basin using geospatial coordinates.
• Analyzing temporal changes in monitoring network coverage between the LTIM (2014-2019) and Flow-MER (2019-2023) program periods.
• Linking sample point locations to hydrological model nodes for validating stream-flow predictions.
• Assessing spatial representativeness of Selected Area monitoring locations for environmental water impact studies.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a nine-year period from 2014 to 2023.
• Includes multiple location types: monitoring sites and hydrological model nodes.
• Provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including GeoJSON and SHP.

Limitations

• Exact number of sample points (rows) is not specified.
• Spatial coverage is limited to the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia.
• Data freshness is unclear as the last update is a future date (2026-04-04).

Provenance

Source

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Collection Method

Collected through the Long Term Intervention Monitoring project and the Flow-MER program.

Time Range

2014 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated date is listed as 2026-04-04, which indicates potential metadata error or planned future update.

Geography

Murray-Darling Basin, Australia