An overview of benthic habitat surveys in Western Australia, combining surveys from multiple State Government agencies, research institutions and Universities.

Disclaimer: The map is in development and does not show real or comprehensive survey data until this message disappears.

Contributing data

Attendees of the Managing Coastal Vulnerability workshop can:

• Register your account and contact us.
• We will give you write permission by making you admin or editor of your organisation, and member of the Habitat Sampling Initiative Group.
• Add metadata for your data by creating a dataset, attach a GeoJSON (QGIS video tutorial, save as CRS EPSG 4326/WGS84) or KML file of your surveyed transects (including survey date or period in site attributes if possible) as resources, and add the dataset to the group Habitat Sampling Initiative.
• Add the link to your access-restricted data on Pawsey as another resource to the dataset.
• Add any other public data resource here if and when appropriate.
• Use the CKAN API to upload metadata from your existing catalogues following these examples.

Discovering data

The following resources give an interactive overview of all Habitat Sampling Initiative datasets: