Data from 1995 to 2009, with 95% of maps having a reliability date of 1994 or later, covers a 160 km by 238 km area in Western Australia. The dataset, from Geoscience Australia, includes natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, and contours, as well as a satellite image overlay. It is part of a series of 513 maps covering all of Australia.
Use Cases
- Analyzing land cover and vegetation patterns based on the topographic and satellite imagery.
- Planning tourism infrastructure based on the overlay of major roads and tourism features.
- Studying coastal and marine park boundaries based on the included administrative data.
- Conducting historical landscape change analysis using data from the 1995-2009 currency range.
Strengths
- Covers a specific 160 km by 238 km area with detailed topographic and satellite data.
- Part of a standardized national series of 513 maps with defined coordinate systems (AGD66, GDA94) and projection (UTM).
- Includes data for two protected areas: Francois Peron National Park and Shark Bay Marine Park.
Limitations
- Data currency ranges from 1995 to 2009, which may not reflect recent changes.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The primary file formats are PDF and JPEG, which are not inherently machine-readable for analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Time Range
- 1995-2009
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-30 14:49:08.014281; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Shark Bay region, Western Australia, Australia