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Heard Island digitising 2009
Entry ID: Heard_Island_digitising_2009

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Summary
Abstract: Digitising of the coastline, glacier extents, water features, wildlife, and human footprints of the Heard Island Remote Sensing Project, 2009. This GIS data has Dataset_id = 273 and is available for downloading under the heading Heard and McDonald Islands (see url below)."
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: -52.96   S: -53.2   E: 73.89   W: 73.24

Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2006-03-30
Stop Date: 2006-03-30
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Platform
ISS > International Space Station Ancillary Description
QUICKBIRD > DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Ancillary Description
Quality Digitising of the coastline, glacier extents, water features, wildlife, and human footprints of Heard Island, from WorldView-1 image 23 March 2008 (main part of the island), Quickbird image 30 March 2006 (Laurens Peninsula) and International Space Station photography 28 Feb 2009 (West coast of main part of the island where there is cloud cover in the WorldView image). Data quality information for any feature can be accessed by searching with the Q_info number of the feature (see url below).

Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 43S, Datum WGS-84.
Access Constraints The data are stored in the Data Centre's GIS and in ESRI shapefile format for downloading
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Heard_Is... when using these data.
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au
Dataset ID: Heard_Island_digitising_2009

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC
Phone: +61 3 6232 3244
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Format: SHP
Fees: Free
Personnel
URSULA HARRIS
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6232 3519
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2009-09-17
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-12-15

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