The GBR10 benthic habitat type map is the output of a modelling process that combines satellite imagery and other environmental attributes like water depth, slope and wave climate, along with known occurrences of benthic habitat type. The occurrences of benthic habitat type were derived through machine learning applied to geolocated photos of the benthos (>100,000 photos) that were collected along reef flats and reef slopes at various offshore shallow reefs (~100 reefs). The modelling process involves taking those occurrences of benthic habitat at known locations (training data) and using a machine learning model to build a relationship between benthic habitat type and the underlying data layers (imagery, depth, slope, waves). Because the data layers cover the whole Great Barrier Reef, a prediction is then able to be made for benthic habitat across the whole Great Barrier Reef as well. Contextual editing was then used to make changes to the map, based on a set of geomorphology- and ecology-based rules, such as what environment a class can occur in and what classes are able to neighbour each other (object-based rulesets). This map covers the “offshore” or “mid and outer-shelf” reefs of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Some of the occurrences of benthic habitat type are withheld from the process, and used to check how well the mapping performed at the end (validation). The mapping was carried out by the Remote Sensing Research Centre at the University of Queensland.

The scientific method for generating the benthic habitat map can be briefly described as:
1. Ingestion of Sentinel-2 satellite image data, bathymetry and wave climate data derived from Sentinel-2 image data, and various additional derived environmental covariates into Google Earth Engine
2. Stacking of the input data sources into a model-ready environment
3. Running a segmentation routine to create image objects
4. Fitting a supervised machine learning model (e.g. random forest) to known occurrences in order to classify segments into benthic classes
5. Application of object based rules using a range of colour, shape texture and relationship rules to modify the class attribution
6. Validation of mapping accuracy and performance

This is an snapshot of the GBR10 benthic dataset taken on Jan 2023 for the Seamap Australia project from the GBRMP Reef Knowledge System (https://reefiq.gbrmpa.gov.au/ReefKnowledgeSystem), see also https://gbrmpa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=492a87d95e8243728486718e7aed02a8. An updated version of the data may be available from the source provider.

Data provides true colour RGB sub-surface reflectance (SSR) based on Sentinel-2 data at 10 m resolution. Data were processed by the Modular and Inversion System by EOMAP GmbH & Co.KG. Modular and Inversion System is designed for the physically based assessment of hydro-biological parameters from multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing data. The sub-surface reflectance (SSR) represent the reflectance data, which have been corrected for effects of the atmosphere and water surface.Download https://gbrmpa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6c74c7f2b7be40ae913d0ebba7c63f7b (zip) orhttps://gbrmpa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d726858b50ba40fa96d245822955acca (tile package)

There are 10 major trading ports along the Great Barrier Reef coast. The waters of most of these ports are within the Great Barrier Reef Region, but not within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

In recognition of the outstanding values of the Great Barrier Reef, there are stringent management arrangements for commercial shipping in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, which is designated a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area by the International Maritime Organisation. Shipping traffic is confined to Designated Shipping Areas in the Great Barrier Reef Region.

This dataset shows the boundaries of the Designated Shipping Areas of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park proclaimed under Section 59 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (CTH) and described in in Part 10 of Schedule 1 of the Great Barrier Reef Zoning Plan 2003.

This metadata record was created for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please contact GBRMPA for more information. To obtain this dataset go to the GBRMPA spatial information website, download the appropriate data usage agreement and send it through to gis@gbrmpa.gov.au.

To cite this dataset in the eAtlas: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, (2004). Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Designated Shipping Areas. eAtlas Archive. https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/bd292772-4fef-4fa0-87b2-bf35367c06f2

Boundaries of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park proclaimed under Subsection 31(1) of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (CTH). For administrative purposes, the Amalgamated Great Barrier Reef Section is divided into four management areas.

This metadata record was created for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please contact GBRMPA for more information. To obtain this dataset go to the GBRMPA spatial information website, download the appropriate data usage agreement and send it through to gis@gbrmpa.gov.au.

A dataset depicting the level of use at locations within the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM), located within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The level of use indicates the number of people per vessel or aircraft who can access each location. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998 to act as a tool to indicate the level of use at different locations within the CAPOM. For further information, refer to Schedule 4 of the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998. Please note, sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset.

A dataset depicting the level of use at certain management setting Locations as well as at Sensitive Locations in the Hinchinbrook Plan of Management (HPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Hinchinbrook Plan of Management 2004 assigns the level of use at a Location as either Low, Moderate or Intensive usage, and the Sensitive Location with the number of tour operations per week. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2002 and is intended to act as a tool to show the location of setting Locations and Sensitive Locations, as well as the level of use at each of these. For further information about setting Locations, level of use at setting Locations, or level of use at Sensitive Locations, refer to Schedules 2, 3 and 4 of the Hinchinbrook Plan of Management 2004. Please note, sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset.

This dataset collection contains GIS layers for creating the AIMS eReefs visualisation maps (https://ereefs.aims.gov.au/). These datasets are useful for creating A4 printed maps of the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea. It contains the following datasets: - Countries - Australia plus surrounding countries at 1:10M scale. Crop of Natural Earth Data 1:10 Admin 0 - Countries dataset. Allows filtering out of surrounding countries. - Cities - 21 Cities along the Queensland coastline. - Basins - Drainage basins adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef along the eastern Queensland coastline. Derived from Geoscience Australia River Basins 1997 dataset. It is a subset and reprojection. - Land and Basins - This layer contains both Queensland and PNG land areas, along with the river basins along the eastern Queensland coastline. This is an integrated layer that represents both the background land area and the river basins all in one layer. This layer saves having to map the land area, then overlay the river basins. In this way each polygon only needs to be rendered once. The goal of this layer is to optmise the rendering time of the eReefs base map. This dataset is made up from the Geoscience Australia Australia's River Basins 1997 dataset for the Queensland coastline and the eastern Queensland basins. PNG is copied from Natural Earth Data 10 m countries dataset. - Rivers - Rivers that drain along the Queensland eastern coast. This is a subset of the Geoscience Australia Geodata Topo 1:5M 2004. - Reefs - Boundaries of reefs in GBR, Torres Strait and Coral Sea. In the Coral Sea it contains the atoll platform boundaries rather than the individual reefs. This is derived from the GBRMPA GBR features dataset, AIMS Torres Strait features dataset and the AIMS Coral Sea features dataset. These were combined and simplified to a scale of 1:1M. Note that this simplification resulted in multiple neighbouring reefs being grouped together. This dataset is intended for visual rendering of maps. - Clip regions - Polygons for clipping eReefs data to the GBR. Also contains approximate polygons for Coral Sea, Torres Strait, PNG and New Caledonia. This was created principally for setting the region attribute for the Reefs dataset, but was made available as it is useful for clipping eReefs data to the GBR for plotting purposes.

Methods: Most of the base map layers are derived from a variety of data sources. The full workflow used to transform these source datasets is documented on GitHub (https://github.com/eatlas/GBR_AIMS_eReefs-basemap).

Limitations of the data: The datasets in this collection have been cropped and simplified for the purposes of creating low detail printed maps of the GBR. They are not intended for creating a high resolution base map.

Format of the data: Shapefile and GeoJSON files. The Cities dataset is provided as a CSV file.

Location of the data: This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\custodian\2018-2024-eReefs\GBR_AIMS_eReefs-basemap

This dataset contains the amalgamated set of Special Management Areas (SMAs) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as described in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983, Amendments 2008. This includes: SMA - No Dories Detached, SMA - Princess Charlotte Bay, SMA - Public Appreciation, SMA - Restricted Access, SMA - Seasonal Closure, SMA - Dugong Protection Area B, SMA - Dugong Protection Area A, SMA - Natural Resources Conservation

Dugong Protection Areas:

This layer shows the Special Management Areas that provide additional protection for Dugongs from commercial fishing. The Dugong Protection Areas ban or restrict the use of commerical netting within these areas.

Zone 'A' Dugong Protection Areas include significant dugong habitats in the southern Great Barrier Reef. In these areas, the use of offshore set, foreshore set and drift nets are prohibited, except in Hervey Bay and Great Sandy Strait Protection Area where specialised fish netting practises are allowed to continue with modifications. The use of river set nets are allowed with modifications in Zone 'A' Dugong Protection Areas, except in two key areas where river set nets are prohibited (Hinchinbrook and Shoalwater Bay Dugong Protection Areas). Other netting practices such as ring, seine, tunnel and set pocket netting which are not considered to pose a serious threat to dugong are unaffected.

In Zone ‘B' Dugong Protection Areas mesh netting practices are allowed to continue, but with more rigorous safeguards and restrictions than before.

Princess Charlotte Bay:

This Special Management Area has been designated to protect dugong within Princess Charlotte Bay in the Far Northern Management Area of the Marine Park. The Special Management Area requires commercial net fishers to obtain a permit to operate within Princess Charlotte Bay.

Public Appreciation: These Special Management Areas restrict spearfishing, commercial aquarium fish collecting, coral harvesting, beachworm harvesting, and aquaculture from being undertaken.

Restricted Access:

These areas may not be used or entered without written permission. In addition, shore access to many islands may be restricted or restricted seasonally. Please refer to the Department of Environment and Resource Management for more information.

Seasonal Closure:

The Ribbon Reefs and adjacent areas are unique, as they are located at a particular part of the continental shelf, which drops sharply away from the reef edge. These important areas of reef support diverse species, including large pelagic fish such as marlin. Special Management Areas designated in these areas provide additional protection to the Ribbon Reefs and adjacent habitats. These Special Management Areas prohibit all fishing and detached dories in these areas from 1 January to 31 August each year.

No Dories Detached:

This layer shows the boundaries of the No Dories Detached Special Management Area specified within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2004.

This Special Management Area regulates the number of dories that may be detached from a commercial fishing vessel.

Natural Resources Conservation:

There is a Natural Resources Conservation Special Management Area declared for: Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island Locality 1 In addition to the rules for the Conservation Park (yellow) Zone, you cannot spearfish or conduct fishing or collecting in this area, except for trolling and bait netting for pelagic species.

This metadata record was created for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please contact GBRMPA for more information. To obtain this dataset go to the GBRMPA spatial information website, download the appropriate data usage agreement and send it through to gis@gbrmpa.gov.au.

To cite this dataset in the eAtlas: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, (2008). Special Management Areas (SMA) within Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. eAtlas Archive. https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/41dd5285-88ec-40c3-be85-f3e0b7c80c27

A dataset depicting the boundary of the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The boundary is based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2007 to depict the boundary of the CAPOM. For further information, refer to the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008.Please note, (1) this dataset does not include the Shoalwater Bay Planning Area and (2) sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset.

There are currently twenty (20) Australian properties on the World Heritage List . A single Australian World Heritage Areas database has been created by combining data which was historically stored as a separate set of data for each property. World Heritage Area buffer zones are also included in this dataset for relevant properties.

The Great Barrier Reef, the Tasmanian Wilderness, the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Shark Bay meet all four World Heritage criteria for natural heritage, with Kakadu National Park, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Willandra Lakes Region and the Tasmanian Wilderness being listed for both natural and cultural criteria. The 2010, 2012 and 2013 extensions to the Tasmanian Wilderness have been incorporated. The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte/Riversleigh), Lord Howe Island Group, Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, Fraser Island, Macquarie Island, Heard and McDonald Islands, the Greater Blue Mountains Area and Purnululu National Park are listed under the World Heritage criteria for natural heritage. The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne were inscribed in the World Heritage List against Cultural criterion (ii): exhibit an important interchange of human values over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town planning or landscape design. The Sydney Opera House was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2007 against Cultural criterion (i) (see http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria ) The Australian Convict Sites was inscribed on the World Heritage List on 31 July 2010. There are 11 sites that make up the World Heritage Australian Convict Sites against Cultural criterion (iv) and (vi). The Ningaloo Coast was inscribed on the World Heritage List in June 2011 against Natural criteria (vii) and (x).

The coastline of Queensland was produced under specific contract for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) by AUSLIG in 1984. Originally engineered by AUSLIG from datasets produced by the Division of National Mapping and RAN Hydrographic Service; Queensland coastal information produced by AUSLIG at 250k scale with 100k elements from developing technology at the time of genesis; Island information is specific to the Great Barrier Reef Region as produced from RAN Hydrographic Service data at 100k scale. Updated against satellite imagery during the RAP process (2003-2004) to 25k scale, especially in Cairns, Whitsundays and Hinchinbrook Regions. This coastline is used to represent the coastal boundary of the Great Barrier Reef WHA, and is supplied by GBRMPA Spatial Data Centre.

A dataset depicting the location of reef anchorages for large vessels throughout the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to display the locations of anchorages on reefs in the CAPOM for large vessels. For further information, refer to Schedule 8 of the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998. Please note, sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset.

A dataset depicting the spatial extent and location of the designated shipping areas and shipping exclusion areas within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2004 to show where shipping can and cannot occur in the GBRMP as per the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan 2003. For further information refer to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan 2003, Schedule 1, Part 10.

The layer contains the following datasets:BoundaryA dataset depicting the boundary of the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The boundary is based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2007 to depict the boundary of the CAPOM.SectorsA dataset depicting the spatial extent and boundaries of the sectors within the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The sectors are primarily used for administrative and management purposes. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008, and is intended to act as a tool to show the different sectors of the CAPOM.Sensitive LocationsA dataset depicting the location and spatial extent of the sensitive locations within the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Sensitive locations are those which possess high nature conservation values, cultural and heritage values, scientific values or use opportunities as defined in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 and is intended to act as a tool to display the type, location and spatial extent of sensitive locations within the CAPOM.Level of Use at LocationsA dataset depicting the level of use at locations within the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM), located within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The level of use indicates the number of people per vessel or aircraft who can access each location. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008 to act as a tool to indicate the level of use at different locations within the CAPOM.Reef AnchoragesA dataset depicting the location of reef anchorages for large vessels throughout the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008, and is intended to act as a tool to display the locations of anchorages on reefs in the CAPOM for large vessels.Bad Weather Anchorages for Large VesselsA dataset depicting the bad weather anchorages that are available to large vessels in the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM), located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2008 based on descriptions in the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008 and was intended to act as a tool to show the locations of the bad weather anchorages in this area.For further information, refer to Schedules 2, 4, 5, 6C and 8 of the Cairns Area Plan of Management 2008.Please note, (1) this dataset does not include the Shoalwater Bay Planning Area and (2) sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset.

Data provides satellite derived bathymetry (corrected to mean sea level) based on Sentinel-2 data at 10 m resolution. Data were processed by the Modular and Inversion System by EOMAP GmbH & Co.KG. Modular and Inversion System is designed for the physically based assessment of hydro-biological parameters from multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing data.Download https://gbrmpa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f644f02ec646496eb5d31ad4f9d0fc64 (zip) orhttps://gbrmpa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=84afec1c96474d52af2b7ad9009fe0a1 (tile package)

A dataset depicting the cruise ship transit lanes of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP) off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Tourism department of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) on the 8th of November 2006 to allow the cruise industry to access transit corridors to enable cross-reef access and sightseeing in the GBRMP.

The layer contains the following datasets:BoundaryA dataset depicting the boundary of the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The boundary is based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2007 to depict the boundary of the WPOM.Significant Bird SitesA dataset depicting the significant bird sites in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Significant bird sites are designed to prevent migratory and shore birds approaching vessels and the sites set out limits on usage of the areas. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to show the spatial extent and locations of significant bird sites in the WPOM.Level of Use at Setting LocationsA dataset depicting the level of use at setting locations in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The level of use assigns setting areas to intensive, high, moderate or low use, or protected (no use). The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to show the maximum group size and vessel length permitted to access the area.Regular Aircraft Landing AreasA dataset depicting the regular aircraft landing areas in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and was intended to act as a tool to show the location and spatial extents of landing areas for regular aircrafts in the WPOM.Designated Water Sports AreasA dataset depicting the locations and spatial extents of designated motorised water sports areas in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to display where in the WPOM motorised water sports are permitted.For further information, refer to Schedules 2, 4, 6 and 7 of the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998.Please note, (1) this dataset does not include the Shoalwater Bay Planning Area and (2) sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset and (3) on the 18th of September 2020 the State of Queensland through the Department of Environment and Science accredited the Whitsundays Plan of Management, hence the provisions of the Plan also apply to the Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park.

This can be downloaded as a zipped file - see 170 kHz Backscatter Data in Hub Data Catalogue. Three frequencies of seabed backscatter data were acquired in conjunction with multibeam echo sounding data during a survey campaign at Douglas Shoal during May 2019. Data acquisition was calibrated by Valeport mini-SVS (sound velocity at the sensor head). Post Processing of the data was undertaken using QPS FMGT software. Soundings were taken every 0.5 metres. The raw backscatter data was then compiled and interpolated to a bathymetric ESRI GRID file using an interpolation routine to create 0.5m ground resolution cell (GRC). The backscatter data was then used in conjunction with multibeam sonar data, imagery, sediment sampling and analysis data, satellite imagery and other derived geospatial products to identify areas of structural damage (rubble and flattening) caused by the grounding of the Shen Neng 1 in April 2010. The resulting backscatter data showed an excellent correlation with the results from sediment analysis and a strong visual correlation with the satellite imagery. The backscatter data contributed to the formulation of high and moderate priority areas and the designation of the Remediation Sites 1, 2, 3 and 4. For further information relating to the backscatter data analysis refer to: Neale, S. J. and Boylson, B. D. 2019, Site Assessment Report - Douglas Shoal Remediation Project. Document 301001–02112-ENREP-0004, Revision 1. Report prepared by Advisian Pty Ltd for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

The Douglas Shoal Explorer is a web mapping application based on Environmental Systems Research Institutes (ESRI) ArcGIS Online (AGOL) technology. The Douglas Shoal remediation project has developed a comprehensive database of geospatial information and will continue to acquire additional data as the project progresses. The Douglas Shoal Explorer has been developed for users to explore and interrogate key data sets that provide an insight into the scale and scope of the remediation project. Further datasets will be added during the procurement process and the subsequent environmental monitoring. If you have any comments or suggestions relating to the Douglas Shoal Explorer they can addressed to douglas.shoal@gbrmpa.gov.au

The layer contains the following datasets:BoundaryA dataset depicting the boundary of the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The boundary is based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2007 to depict the boundary of the WPOM.Significant Bird SitesA dataset depicting the significant bird sites in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Significant bird sites are designed to prevent migratory and shore birds approaching vessels and the sites set out limits on usage of the areas. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to show the spatial extent and locations of significant bird sites in the WPOM.Level of Use at Setting LocationsA dataset depicting the level of use at setting locations in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The level of use assigns setting areas to intensive, high, moderate or low use, or protected (no use). The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to show the maximum group size and vessel length permitted to access the area.Regular Aircraft Landing AreasA dataset depicting the regular aircraft landing areas in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and was intended to act as a tool to show the location and spatial extents of landing areas for regular aircrafts in the WPOM.Designated Water Sports AreasA dataset depicting the locations and spatial extents of designated motorised water sports areas in the Whitsundays Plan of Management (WPOM), located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The dataset was created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in 2018 based on descriptions in the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998, and is intended to act as a tool to display where in the WPOM motorised water sports are permitted.For further information, refer to Schedules 2, 4, 6 and 7 of the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998.Please note, (1) this dataset does not include the Shoalwater Bay Planning Area and (2) sufficient data to determine mean low water is not available, therefore the coastal boundary lines follow the coastlines as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Mainland and Islands dataset and (3) on the 18th of September 2020 the State of Queensland through the Department of Environment and Science accredited the Whitsundays Plan of Management, hence the provisions of the Plan also apply to the Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park.

Please note that GBR10 GBRMP Geomorphic layer can be access through the Reef Knowledge SystemThe GBR10 geomorphic zonation map is the output of a modelling process that combines satellite imagery and other environmental attributes like water depth, slope and wave climate, along with known occurrences of geomorphic zonation. The modelling process involves taking those occurrences of geomorphic zonation at known locations (training data) and using a machine learning model to build a relationship between geomorphic zonation and the underlying data layers (imagery, depth, slope, waves). Because the data layers cover the whole Great Barrier Reef, a prediction is then able to be made for geomorphic zonation across the whole Great Barrier Reef as well. Contextual editing was then used to make changes to the map, based on a set of geomorphology- and ecology-based rules, such as what environment a class can occur in and what classes are able to neighbour each other (object-based rulesets). This map covers the “offshore” or “mid and outer-shelf” reefs of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Some of the occurrences of geomorphic zonation are withheld from the process, and used to check how well the mapping performed at the end (validation). The mapping was carried out by the Remote Sensing Research Centre at the University of Queensland.The scientific method for generating the geomorphic zonation map can be briefly described as:Ingestion of Sentinel-2 satellite image data, bathymetry and wave climate data derived from Sentinel-2 image data, and various additional derived environmental covariates into Google Earth EngineStacking of the input data sources into a model-ready environmentRunning a segmentation routine to create image objectsFitting a supervised machine learning model (e.g. random forest) to known occurrences in order to classify segments into geomorphic zonation classesApplication of object based rules using a range of colour, shape texture and relationship rules to modify the class attributionValidation of mapping accuracy and performanceA detailed overview of the mapping process can be found in the following publications:Lyons et al. (2020). Mapping the world's coral reefs using a global multiscale earth observation framework. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.157Roelfsema et al. (2021). How Much Shallow Coral Habitat is there on The Great Barrier Reef. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214343A detailed overview of generating training and validation data can be found here:Roelfsema et al (2021). Workflow for the generation of expert-derived training and validation data: a view to global scale habitat mapping. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.643381A detailed overview of the classification system and mapping classes can be found in this publication:Kennedy et al (2021). Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing. Nature Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00958-z