Australian Surface Hydrology Polygons for Hydrological Feature Definition

Australian regional data provides a geometric representation of major hydrographic polygon elements, both natural and artificial. The dataset is intended for defining hydrological features with attributes and is the best available data supplied by jurisdictions and aggregated by Geoscience Australia. It was last updated on 2026-06-16.

Use Cases

• Mapping water bodies and wetlands based on geometric polygon representations.
• Defining hydrological features for environmental impact assessments using attributed polygon data.
• Creating consistent hydrological information layers for regional planning and analysis.
• Integrating jurisdictional hydrographic data into a national-scale geospatial framework.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated from the best available sources supplied by Australian jurisdictions.
• Dataset is intended for defining hydrological features with attributes.
• Last update was recorded as 2026-06-16 22:16:48.963006.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via data.gov.au

Collection Method

Aggregated by Geoscience Australia from data supplied by jurisdictions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 22:16:48.963006; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (regional)