Dataset: Areas of exposed rock and blue ice in the Australian Antarctic Territory digitised from satellite images

Description

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre digitises topographic features from satellite images as required for various applications. These features include areas of exposed rock and areas of blue ice.

As at August 2014 digitising had been done for the following areas:

exposed rock - southern Prince Charles Mountains, the south-eastern part of the Amery Ice Shelf, Grove Mountains and the coastline between the Amery Ice Shelf and the Polar Times Glacier;

blue ice - Prince Charles Mountains

The digitised exposed rock and blue ice data is available for download as shapefiles. Also available in this format are the mapping extents for the digitising. See the Related URLs below.

The data conform to the SCAR Feature Catalogue which includes data quality information. Each feature has a Qinfo number which, when entered at the 'Search datasets and quality' tab, provides data quality information for the feature including details about the satellite image from which the feature was digitised.

General Information

• Australian Antarctic Division
• Create Date: 10/12/2015
• Update Date: 11/08/2023
• Landing Page: https://data.gov.au/dataset/7ac92504-10d5-490e-8445-5ebc9568c379
• Keywords:
  • AMD
  • AMD-AU
  • CEOS
  • CONTINENT - ANTARCTICA
  • EARTH SCIENCE - LAND SURFACE - FROZEN GROUND
  • EARTH SCIENCE - LAND SURFACE - GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS-PROCESSES
  • EARTH SCIENCE - LAND SURFACE - LANDSCAPE
  • EARTH SCIENCE - LAND SURFACE - TOPOGRAPHY
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION - POLAR
  • blue ice
  • exposed rock

Distributions

• Point of truth URL of this metadata record
  • Format: N/A
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Download the digitised exposed rock data
  • Format: SHP
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Download the digitised blue ice data
  • Format: SHP
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Download the mapping extents for the digitised exposed rock and blue ice data
  • Format: SHP
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Search the SCAR Feature Catalogue
  • Format: HTML
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
  • Format: N/A
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015