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A word within the name or synonym of a feature type	Case sensitive search Highlight any matches
A word within the description
Restrict to features within a theme	All themes Aeronautic Bathymetry Coastline Communication Fauna Flora Geography Geology Geomorphology Geophysics Historical Hydrology Ice Features Infrastructure Services Management Map Elements Nautical Oceanography Structure Topographic Water Supply
Restrict to features containing the attribute	All attributes AAS_no AGSO_Code Absolute_Accuracy Accuracy Acquired time Aerial_Type Age Aircraft Altitude Anchorage_Type Anomaly_Type Apparatus_Type Appearance Application Area Area_sq_km Artifact_Type Aspect Asset_No Asset_manag_no Atmospheric correction Atn Average winter population Band Battery_Type Beacon_Purpose Box_No Brief_Soil_Description Building_Purpose Cable_Form Camera Camera_Left Camera_Oblique Camera_Right Camera_position Camera_type Canister_No Capacity Centre_Lat Centre_Lng Certainty Classification Cloud_Cv Colony type Colour Comm_Service Comments Common_Name Condition Cone_Shape Contact_Details Count_no Country Crevasse_Size Crevasse_Type Dataset_Id Dataset_Id_Description Date_Aban Date_Capture Date_Est Date_Flag Date_Rem Date_Rem_Int Date_Rev Date_Use Date_Val Date_Wreck Datum Definition Delivery_Date Depot_No Depth Description Detailed_Soil_Description Diameter Diapositive Digital Discipline Display Display_id Draw Drums_Empty Drums_Full Duration Edition Editor Electricity_Service Elevation Ellipsoid Emitter End_Latitude End_Longitude Engine Epoch Equipment Expected_Delivery_Quantity Exposure Exposure_Scale Extents Facilities Fault_Type Feat_Type Feat_left Feat_right Film Film_Type Film_brand Film_colour Fixture Focal_Length Focal_Length_Left Focal_Length_Right Focal_Length_Vertical Fold_Axis_Type Foreign Format Frame Frame 1 Frame 2 Frequency Front_Type Fuel_Service Fuel_Type GLIMS_id Gaz_Feature_Type Gaz_Id Generator_Type Geographic_Area Georectified Georeferenced Glacier_Date Glacier_Type Gradient Group_Gaz_Id Group_Name Guide_Type Height Height_asl Horizontal_Datum Ice_Field_Type Ice_Type Iceberg_Type Image enhancement Image length Image mode Image width Installation Interval Interval_Method Interval_Value Intro_Species Jurisdiction Kind Land_east Land_west Landing_Gear Last_Inspection_Date Latitude Layers Left_End Left_Start Limit Location_description Location_method Longitude Map catalogue link Map_No Map_Type Mark Material Max_Elevation Metadata_Id Method Min_Elevation Mosaic Motion Name Ne_Cnr_Lat Ne_Cnr_Lng Negative Notes Number_of_samples Nw_Cnr_Lat Nw_Cnr_Lng Observer Off nadir Organisation Origin Originator Orthophoto Orthorectified Pa_Type Pad_Purpose Pan Sharpened Path value Peak population Period Photograph_Details Photographs_Taken Physical_Size_Height Physical_Size_Width Plan_No Plant_Common_Name Plant_Scientific_Name Platform id Position Positive Preview path Print Procedure Processing Processing_notes Project Projection Projection_Code Pub_Date Publisher Purpose_description Q_Info Quality_Left Quality_Right Quality_Vertical Rating Reason Reference Region_Category Region_Name Region_id Relative_Accuracy Relief Reported_GPS Resolution Right_End Right_Start Rl_of_Floor Rl_of_Top Rock_Type Role Route_No Row_value Run SCAR_Gaz_Id SCAR_Grp_Gaz_Id SCAR_Name Scale Scanned Scene_Id Se_Cnr_Lat Se_Cnr_Lng Sea_Ice_Type Sensor id Series Service Sheet Shore_Type Site_Code Site_ID_No Site_Name Site_Type Slope Snow_Type Soil_Collection Soil_Type Source Species Speed Start_Latitude Start_Longitude Status Stereopair Stock Storage_Description Storage_Type Storage_purpose Subsetted Sun_Azimuth Sun_Elevation Surface Survey monument Sw_Cnr_Lat Sw_Cnr_Lng Tank_Purpose Temporal Thematic derivatives Theme Thickness Tidal_Zone_Type Time_System Title Tongue_Type Transfer Transport Turbine_Blade_Diameter Ufi Un_Locode Use Value Veg_Mapping Veg_Type_Name Veg_code Vertical_Datum Vertical_End Vertical_Start Vertical_Structure View_Angle Visibility Volume WGMS_id Water_Scale Water_Type Water_service Watercourse_Type Wmo_No Wreck_Area Wreck_Type Years_Avail Years_Operating Zone
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Feature Class	All classes Capes and coastal projections - Any kind of land feature projecting into the sea Coves and harbours - Any kind of coastal indentations, usually large and/or deep Elevated features - Alignments and highland systems Elevated features - High summits Elevated features - Large conspicuous heights Elevated features - Moderate to Low heights Elevated features - Mountain Passes Elevated features - Plains of variable altitude Elevated features - Slopes and Walls Elevated features - Valleys Fluvial features - Any kind of fluvial feature Ice cracks - Any kind of ice crack Ice features - Any kind of ice-made feature, except cracks Inland water features - Any kind of lacustrine feature Islands - Islands and any kind of isolated feature emerging from water Lands - large continental area, entirely or partly defined by natural boundaries Man-made features - Any kind of man-made feature, including historic monuments Rookeries - Nesting and breeding places of a penguin colony Round features - Any feature having a circular shape Sea access - Any kind of sea passage between two lands or between a l Sea coasts - Any kind of shore between land and sea Sea floor - Any submarine feature Seas - sub-division of the salt water partially covering the Earth's surface
Display options	Select all: Yes No Feature Type Name Definition The Themes of a feature type The Attributes of a feature type The Sources of a feature type The SCAR Class Name of a feature type Link from feature types to the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Tick to create a text file for importing into the Geoexplorer
Output Format	HTML Word Excel -- If Excel or Word, enter its filename (ignoring extension)
Order the results by	Feature Type Code Feature Type Name Definition

About

The SCAR Feature Catalogue was developed by SCAR's Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information. It was presented to XXVII SCAR, 15-26 July 2002, in Shanghai, China.

Spatial data is increasingly available in digital form, managed using GIS software and is often distributed via the web. More data is being exchanged between nations/institutions and used by a variety of disciplines. To promote the interchange of data and the interoperation of GIS, it is necessary to develop a common set of terms to describe the various types of geographic data we are exchanging. The SCAR Feature Catalogue and its content is providing the Antarctic Community with a mechanism to create and manage this set of common terminology. Care has been taken to use emerging ISO TC211 standards in developing the Catalogue.

The SCAR Feature Catalogue provides a detailed description of the nature and the structure of GIS and map data. It follows ISO/DIS 19110, Geographic Information - Methodology for feature cataloguing. Considerable effort has gone into ensuring that the SCAR Feature Catalogue is a unified and efficient tool that can be used with any GIS software and at any scale of geographic information.

The Catalogue content includes data quality information, terminology, database types and attribute options that will apply to any GIS. The SCAR Feature Catalogue uses a database engine and web application to enable any component of the information to be easily viewed, printed, downloaded and updated via the Web.

Terminology

The same term can have a different meaning depending on the GIS software being used. Below is list of the terms used in the SCAR Feature Catalogue and how they are used.

"Geographic features occur at two levels: instances and types. At the instance level, a geographic feature is represented as a discrete phenomenon that is associated with its geographic and temporal coordinates and may be portrayed by a particular graphic symbol. These individual instances are grouped into classes with common characteristics - feature types. It is recognised that geographic information is subjectively perceived and that its content depends upon the needs of particular applications. The needs of the applications determine the way instances are grouped into types within a particular classification scheme." (Source ISO 19110)

Headings used in the Feature Catalogue

Feature Type Name - Text string that uniquely identifies the feature type within the catalogue
Code - Code that uniquely identifies the feature type within the catalogue
Aliases - Name(s) of equivalent feature term(s)
SCAR Feature Attribute Names - Characteristic(s) of the feature type, in order. These must be used, as specified in the Feature Catalogue. All feature types have the following feature attributes: feat_type, ufi, q_info, geometry, dataset_id.
Feat_type - Feature type name.
ufi - A unique feature identifier is created and maintained by the database. Each time a feature instance is added or moved, a new ufi is created. The ufi is only unique for the database that generated it. For datasets that are not stored in a database, the custodian could maintain the ufi. It is used to identify a feature down to the instance level. 
Q_info -This is only required when quality information is required for each feature instance, rather than the metadata that describes quality information for the dataset. Q_info requires the same information that a metadata record does. For example, the GPS survey data in the diagram below. For the feature type "island", some of the data may have been collected by driving around in a quad on sea ice where the island edge was difficult to determine and some collected by zodiac when the coastline was definite. Some of this feature type data may be made up of both, for example, "Gust Island". In this example, the feature type is the island, a polygon, but the quality information could be held in the feature type "island boundary", made up of a number of lines, each with a different Q_info value. It is therefore possible to use two feature types, "island" and "island boundary", to describe one island. Only one feature instance would be required for Gust Island, and many feature instances would be required for the island boundary, that make up the island outline. Q_Info value -9999 is used when a value is not necessary. For example, if all quality information is held in the line data, quality information is not necessary for the same features stored as polygons.
geometry - The geometry of the feature such as point, line, polygon, centroid etc. and includes a complete spatial reference such as the horizontal datum and datum year, e.g. ITRF 2000@2000.
Dataset_id - A unique identifier is created and maintained by the dataset creator. There is always a one to one relationship between a dataset_id and a metadata record.

Additional Feature Attribute Names - Characteristic(s) of the feature type, as required by a national authority. Those listed are used by the Australian Antarctic Division, and are only a guide for others.
Comments - additional information that may require discussion or clarification
Feature Type Value - The name of the feature class as listed in the database (maximum of 16 characters) + geometry (eg. aerial_py, aerial_ln and aerial_pt where py is a polygon, ln is a line and pt is a point)
Definition - Definition of the features type
Definition Source - The book, electronic document, URL etc reference from where the definition was sourced. 
Feature Operation Names - Text string that uniquely identifies the feature operation within the catalogue. The feature operation is the operation that every instance of a feature type may perform. 
Feature Association Names - Text string that uniquely identifies the feature association within the catalogue. The feature association is the relationship that links instances of the feature type with instances of the same or different feature type.
Subtypes of - Identifies one or more feature types from which the subject feature type inherits all properties, including feature operations, feature attributes , and feature associations.

Area of interest - is a feature type that defines the area that a scientist, manager etc. is interested in. It can be used for extracting data from the feature type catalogue. The area could be listed in the SCAR Gazetteer or be defined arbitrarily.
Mapping extent - is a feature type that represents the extent of the area that was mapped in the creation of a dataset
Dataset extent - is the extent of the dataset as determined by  GIS software and used by the metadata search.
Connector is a line representing missing data or data that is not visible. For example, snow covering pipes. The Australian Antarctic Division has also used connectors for closing polygon data. Examples 
- where a number of contours are too close together and a polygon in the feature class hypsometric area is given a range representing what ideally would be a number of polygons.
- to separate a watercourse polygon from the sea.
- adjacent hydrographic areas with different data quality information.
Reserve words Words reserved by GIS software. For this reason the following words have not been used; group, size, mode, order, row and date.

Relationship to ISO19110

ISO TC211 is the ISO Technical Committee Geographic Information / Geomatics that develops the ISO 191xx family of standards for the field of digital geographic information. The SCAR Feature Catalogue implements ISO/DIS 19110, Geographic Information - Methodology for feature cataloguing. 

Below, the SCAR feature as derived from the ISO feature.

Examples of use

Australian Antarctic Division

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre holds most of it's spatial data in an enterprise level database. All this data matches the SCAR Feature Catalogue. Users can view Australia's implementation tables while viewing features in the Catalogue. Users can also search our content for dataset_ids and q-infos.

Antarctic Digital Database

The Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) is the premier source of vector topographic data for Antarctica.
Project homepage:
http://www.add.scar.org/

SCAR King George Island GIS Web Map Server

The SCAR King George Island GIS (SCAR KGIS) project provides a topographic data base for King George Island, South Shetland Islands. It is a collaborative effort of many countries. The database can be used for research and environmental management.
Project homepage:
http://www.kgis.scar.org

Implementing the Feature Catalogue in a GPS unit

Archive

Features and their attributes stored in the Feature Catalogue can be obtained

• on-line through the use of the "Search Feature Catalogue" tab or
  
• as a downloadable file of all the content in the catalogue.
  

This page contains the Catalogue contents as current at different times over the years.

All files are Microsoft Access 2000 files. They contain populated tables only. That is, the tables are not linked and there are no forms, queries or reports. Please use the online application for this functionality.

Downloadable files

• FC_12_Sep_2007.zip
• FC_17_Dec_2003.zip
• FC_12_Dec_2002.zip

Australian Antarctic Program Quality Information Records

If you know the dataset identifier, Dataset_Id (a number) that uniquely identifies a dataset that you are interested in, it is possible to use the search tool below to view the name of the dataset, its metadata record and any quality information pertaining to its collection. Conversely if you know the quality identifier, Q_Info (a number), you can also access the relevant quality information and obtain a link to the Dataset_Id.

Enter a Q-Info id	- use this if you have published data with a Q-Info identifier
Enter a Dataset id	- use this if you have published data with a Dataset identifier
A word within the name or description of a record	Allow a Case sensitive search
Restrict to records within a region	All regions AAT West Amery Ice Shelf & Ingrid Christensen Coast Bunger Hills Cape Denison Casey Davis Enderby Land Framnes Mountains George V Land Grove Mountains Heard Island and McDonald Islands Heard and McDonald Islands EEZ Holme Bay Ingrid Christensen Coast Kemp Land Kerguelen Plateau Lars Christensen Coast Larsemann Hills Law Dome Mac.Robertson Land Macquarie Island Macquarie Island EEZ Macquarie Island station Mawson Mawson Coast Prince Charles Mountains - north Princess Elizabeth Land Prydz Bay Queen Mary Land Rauer Group Robinson Group Southern Ocean Vestfold Hills Wilhelm II Land Wilkes Land Windmill Islands
Restrict to records belonging to a dataset	All datasets A bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Brown Bay, Windmill Islands A bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands A bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of O'Brien Bay, Windmill Islands AAD collaborative research locations ADD version 2 - Some SS40-42 rock data moved to match georeferenced image of Sthn Prince Charles Mtns map Aerial Photograph collection Amery Ice Shelf - Spot heights associated with the paper 'A 4-decade record of elevation change of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica' by M.King et al Amery Region - Contour data for the Amery Region map Antarctic Digital Database version 5 1:10 million, 1:1 million and scale of capture data Antarctic Specially Protected Areas and Antarctic Specially Managed Areas in the Australian Antarctic Territory - polygon data Antarctic Specially Protected Areas, Antarctic Specially Managed Areas and Historic Sites and Monuments in the Australian Antarctic Territory - point data Antarctic Stations Antarctic Territorial Claims Antarctica - 1:10 million dataset Antarctica - Contours derived from ERS Radar Altimeter Data Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 Sledging Tracks Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2001 Australian Antarctic automatic weather station dataset Bathymetry of approaches to Casey Station Bathymetry of approaches to Davis Station Bathymetry of approaches to Mawson Station Beaver Lake / Loewe Massif - topographic mapping from rectified SPOT 5 satellite imagery Bechervaise Island - Adelie Penguin nest locations Bechervaise Island - Survey of penguin colony markers and some infrastructure 1999/2000 Bechervaise Island - Total station survey of infrastructure, February 2002 Bechervaise Island - penguin colony boundary survey February 2000 Bechervaise Island Survey - June 2000 Bechervaise and Welch Islands photogrammetry from aerial photography 1996 Broknes Peninsula 1:5000 Topographic Dataset Bunger Hills topographic data CCAMLR boundaries and names Cape Denison - Artefacts survey October to December 2002 Cape Denison - Data created for Management Plans 2004 for ASPA 162 and ASMA 3 Cape Denison Adelie Penguin census, 1996/97 Cape Denison Adelie Penguin census, 1999 Cape Denison Bird survey 1996/7 Cape Denison Historic Site 1990 1:3300 map digitised Cape Denison and part of George V Land captured from IKONOS satellite imagery January 2001. Cape Denison bird survey November, December 2002 Cape Denison detail survey December 1985 Casey Station - Data eyed in based on advice from AAD Atmospheric Sciences staff Casey Station - GPS survey September 2001 Casey Station - Station data update March 2001 Casey Station Dataset Casey Station Dataset update from various sources Casey Station Fire Hydrants Contours derived from Australian Bathymetry and Topography Grid produced by Geoscience Australia Data created for the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve Management Plan published in 2005. Data derived from 'Distribution of Weddell seals pupping at the Vestfold Hills' dataset Data related to helicopter and fixed wing operations of the Australian Antarctic Division Davis - Locations of tide gauges and tide gauge markers Davis Station - Data eyed in based on advice from AAD Atmospheric Sciences staff Davis Station - Total station survey February 2002 Davis Station Dataset Davis Station Dataset update from various sources Davis Station Fire Hydrants Differential GPS Survey Summer 1997/98 Dog / sledging tracks GIS Dataset ESRI World Data 2005 East of Holme Bay Spot data Fisher Massif - Mapping from Landsat 7 image, March 2003 Framnes Mountains -photogrammetry from aerial photography, 1998/99 Framnes Mountains Routes Framnes Mountains edited contours. Framnes Mountains photogrammetry from SPOT imagery 1988. Excludes the mountains themselves Fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current GEBCO Digital Atlas 1997 Gaussberg - Photogrammetry using 1997 aerial photography Gebco Digital Atlas 2003 Geoscience Australia geodetic data Gibbney Island photogrammetry from aerial photography 2001 Heard Island - 5 small areas of mapping from Cape Bidlingmaier to Pageos. Heard Island - Bird survey 2000/01 Heard Island - Bird survey 2003/04 Heard Island - DEM derived from 1997 RADARSAT imagery Heard Island - DEM derived from 2002 RADARSAT imagery Heard Island - Data digitised from 1:50 000 satellite image map 1991 Heard Island - Field camp and refuge locations 2003-04 Heard Island - Glacier extents mapped from satellite imagery and aerial photography Heard Island - Mapping from Quickbird satellite image Heard Island - Topographic survey 2000/01 Heard Island - Topographic survey 2003/04 Heard Island - Vegetation mapping east & south coast Heard Island - digitising of features from a mosaic of WorldView-1 23 March 2008 and Quickbird 30 March 2006 of Laurens Peninsula Heard Island - mapping from rectified aerial photographs Heard Island / Laurens Peninsula and west coast Heard Island / Laurens Peninsula mapping from rectified aerial photographs Heard Island Vegetation Heard Island data collated early 1998 Heard Island wetlands Heard Island/Atlas Cove area - Buildings of the old station Heard Island/Atlas Cove area - GPS survey February 2000 Heard Island/Atlas Cove area - Total station survey November 2000 Heard and McDonald Islands - AMBIS coastline Heard and McDonald Islands - Bathymetric data created for 1:1 000 000 bathymetric map Heard and McDonald Islands - Data sourced from 1:50 000 topographic map (ed3) 1985 Holme Bay - Adelie Penguin colonies and coastline digitised from ANARE Research Notes 71 Holme Bay - Penguin survey work from Linhof aerial photography Holme Bay - Photogrammetry from aerial photography February 1973 Holme Bay and Framnes Mountains - Survey of flying bird nests 2004/05 by Frederique Olivier Holme Bay photogrammetry from aerial photography 2001 Lambert Operations Area 1:1 million map Larsemann Hills - Catchment boundaries of the lakes on Broknes Larsemann Hills - Data created for Environmental Management maps published 2005 Larsemann Hills - Lakes with attributes from ANARE Research Notes 74 Larsemann Hills - digitising of Landsat 7 image captured January 2000 and 1:25000 map (1991) Larsemann Hills - photogrammetry using aerial photography captured February 1998 Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic Dataset Law Dome Coastline from Landsat TM Mosaic Macquarie Island - AMBIS coastline Macquarie Island - Contour data derived from Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar images captured August 2000 Macquarie Island - DPIWE, Tasmania survey control database-June 2001 Macquarie Island - Data update from various sources Macquarie Island - Digitised from RAN Hydrographic Chart AUS604 Macquarie Island - GPS survey March 1996 Macquarie Island - Locations estimated from 1:50000 topographic map 1971 Macquarie Island - Mapping from Quickbird satellite image Macquarie Island - Survey March 2003 Macquarie Island - Vegetation and Drainage Mapping Macquarie Island Flying Bird Colonies Macquarie Island Helicopter Exclusion Zone Macquarie Island Penguin Colonies Macquarie Island Seal Colonies Macquarie Island Special Management Areas Macquarie Island Station - Data created based on information from AAP Atmospheric Sciences staff Macquarie Island Station - Surveys December 1994 and January 1996 Macquarie Island Station - Theodolite Survey March 2000 Macquarie Island Station Dataset Macquarie Island Station Dataset update from various sources Macquarie Island Station Fire Hydrants Macquarie Island VHF Coverage Mawson Station - Data created based on information from AAP Atmospheric Sciences staff Mawson Station - GPS Survey 2003 Mawson Station - Survey March 1999 Mawson Station - Total station survey February 2002 Mawson Station Dataset Mawson Station Dataset update February 2004 Mawson Station Dataset update from various sources Mawson Station Fire Hydrants McDonald Islands - Data digitised from Quickbird imagery acquired 9 April 2003 Mt Menzies - Photogrammetry from aerial photography, SPOT satellite imagery and Russian space photography Murray and Scullin Monoliths - Birds Northern Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Platcha - Photogrammetry from 1998 aerial photography Polygonised GEBCO Digital Atlas 2003 data Rauer Group - Penguin survey work from Linhof aerial photography Rauer Group-Data eyed-in using advice from AAD personnel Rauer Group-photogrammetry using 1960 aerial photography and 1990 SPOT XS satellite imagery Refuges and fuel depots - locations sourced from the Operations Branch of the AAD Retired - Australian maritime boundaries from Geoscience Australia, now superseded Retired - Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve and Conservation Zone Retired - Heard and McDonald Islands Management Areas 2003 Robinson Group - Adélie penguin colonies from GPS survey 2006/07 Rookery Islands - Data from various sources Rookery Islands photogrammetry from aerial photography 1999 SQ41-42 1:1 million SR41-42 1:1 million SR43-44 1:1 million Simplified geology of the Vestfold Hills Sorsdal Formation (Sediments), Marine Plain, Vestfold Hills Southern PCMs topographic mapping from georeferenced Landsat 7 pan satellite image Southern islands of the world Survey 2002/03 summer season Casey Australian Antarctic Division - J.Hyslop / AAD Survey of contaminants at the abandoned Wilkes station 1998/99 Survey of road between Casey Station and Old Casey, March 1999 Survey of the Casey quarry, September 1998 Survey report 1993/94 Australian Antarctic Division Author - J.Hyslop / AUSLIG Survey report 1997/98 summer season Voyage 2 to 5 Australian Antarctic Division Author - John Hyslop / AUSLIG Survey report 1997/98 summer season Macquarie Island Australian Antarctic Division Author - Natasha Adams / UTAS Survey report 1998/1999 summer season Voyage 6 Australian Antarctic Division Author - T.Gordon / AUSLIG Survey report 1998/99 summer season Voyage 4 Australian Antarctic Division Authors - R.Lemon / AUSLIG Survey report 1998/99 summer season Voyage 4 to 5 (Casey) Australian Antarctic Division Authors - Matt King / Rachael Manson / Lee Palfrey / UTAS and Army Survey report 1998/99 summer season Voyage 4 to 5 (Davis) Australian Antarctic Division Authors - Matt King / Rachael Manson / Lee Palfrey / UTAS and Army Survey report 1998/99 summer season Voyage 5.1 Australian Antarctic Division Authors - J.Hyslop / AAD Survey report 1999/2000 summer season Voyage 4 to 6 Australian Antarctic Division Author - Mark Anderson / UTAS Survey report 2000/01 summer season Authors - Gary Johnston / Paul Digney / AUSLIG Survey report 2000/01 summer season Australian Antarctic Division Author - D.Hurd / AAD Survey report 2000/01 summer season Voyages 3, 5, 7 Australian Antarctic Division Author - T.Gordon / AUSLIG Survey report 2001/02 summer season Macquarie Island Australian Antarctic Division Author - Simone Ingham / UTAS Survey report 2002/03 summer season Voyages 2 to 5 Australian Antarctic Division Author - N.Peters / AAD Survey report 2003/04 summer season Australian Antarctic Division Author - Adrian Corvino / University of Melbourne Survey report 2006/07 summer season Geoscience Australia Authors - Nick Brown and Alex Woods / GA Survey report 2008/09 summer season Geoscience Australia Authors - Ryan Ruddick and Alex Woods / GA Survey report Air Transport Project 2003/04 summer season Australian Antarctic Division Author - A.Read / AAD Survey report March 2002 Macquarie Island Authors - Nick Bowden and John VanderNiet / Office of the Surveyor General, Tasmania Survey report November 1997 Voyage 3 Australian Antarctic Division Author - T.Gordon / AUSLIG Taylor Rookery 1:5000 Topographic Dataset Vestfold Hills - Digitising of bathymetric contours from lake bathymetry maps Vestfold Hills - Digitising of outdated and redundant bathymetric contours from lake bathymetry maps Vestfold Hills - Digitising of sample point data from lake bathymetry maps Vestfold Hills - Digitising of soundings from lake bathymetry maps Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic Dataset Vestfold Hills Routes Vestfold Hills data update from various sources Vestfold Hills penguin colonies mapped from Linhof aerial photography, 24 November 1993 Vestfold Hills to Larsemann Hills traverse 2001 Voyage tracks Wigg Island photogrammetry from aerial photography 2001 Windmill Island - Digitisation of Russian 1:100000 map 1956 Windmill Islands - Digitisation of 1:10000 map compiled by AUSLIG from aerial photographs taken in the 1993 - 94 field season Windmill Islands - ASPA 136 boundary Windmill Islands - Bird colonies eyed in based on the field work of Eric Woehler Windmill Islands - Data update from various sources Windmill Islands - Digitisation of 1:50000 map of Windmill Islands, Edition 1 Windmill Islands - Digitisation of SPOT Pan satellite image January 1989 Windmill Islands - Flying Bird data collected by Eric Woehler and Lee Belbin February 2000. Windmill Islands - Flying bird data from field work by Jan van Franeker Windmill Islands - GPS survey December 2001 Windmill Islands - GPS survey July 2001 Windmill Islands - Generated from coordinates given on Windmill Islands 1:50000 map, Edition 2 Windmill Islands - Penguin survey work from Linhof aerial photography Windmill Islands - Photogrammetry using January 1994 Zeiss aerial photography Windmill Islands - Polygons generated from bounding lines derived from multiple sources Windmill Islands - Survey of flying bird nests 2002/03 by Frederique Olivier Windmill Islands - Surveys at Casey, Skiway and Mitchell Peninsula by H.Brolsma, R.Handsworth (AAD) February 2009 Windmill Islands - Surveys of bird colonies 1998/99 by Jonny Stark and Jeroen Creuwels Windmill Islands - Vegetation Windmill Islands - Weddell and Southern Elephant Seal data on Browning Peninsula and Peterson Island. Windmill Islands Routes Windmill Islands sea ice boundary 27 October 2005
Order the results by	Q Info record id Date data acquired

About datasets & quality

In developing the SCAR Feature Catalogue, one of the requirements for the data to comply with ISO standards is to include information on the quality of the data. The person or organisation where the data originates is responsible for assigning the data quality. Information on data quality is not for making a value judgement on the data or the provider of the data, rather it is to enable the user to assess whether the data is suitable for their purpose.

Most Australian data uses the SCAR Feature Catalogue and therefore has a dataset identifier (Dataset_Id) and quality information identifer (Q_Info). AT this time other nations are yet to populate this attribute.

The purpose of describing the quality of geographic data is to facilitate the selection of the geographic dataset best suited to application needs or requirements. Complete descriptions of the quality of a dataset will encourage the sharing, interchange and use of appropriate geographic datasets. A geographic dataset can be viewed as a commodity or product. Information on the quality of geographic data allows a data producer or vendor to validate how well a dataset meets the criteria set forth in its product specification and assists a data user in determining a product's ability to satisfy the requirements for their particular application."

Quote source: Draft International Standard ISO/DIS 19113 Geographic information - Quality principles.

The SCAR Feature Catalogue includes an attribute called Q_Info for every feature instance. The Q_Info is a pointer to data quality information that is held in a Data Quality Table. This table contains the following information for Australian datasets:

Data quality information pointer (number)

Source agency (character; the source agency of the vector feature, eg. AUSLIG, USGS)

Spatial source (character - pick list; type of source data used for defining the position of the feature, eg. satellite image,aerial photograph, actual feature)

Spatial reference (character; an identifying reference to the survey, image, photograph or the like, used to define the position of the feature)

Spatial method (character; the means by which the spatial feature was captured, eg. photogrammetry, digitising, theodolite survey)

Attribute source (character; the primary source or sources used for defining the attributes of the feature, eg. satellite image, aerial photograph, map)

Attribute reference (character; an identifying reference to the map, image, photograph or the like, used to define the attributes of the feature; may be more than one reference)

Spatial reliability date (date; the date of the spatial source, eg. the date of the satellite image used to define the position of the feature)

Attribute reliability date (date; the date of the attribute source, eg. the date of the satellite image used to define the attributes of the feature; where a feature has a number of attributes the reliability date is that of the most recently validated attribute)

Planimetric accuracy (number; an estimate in metres of the standard deviation of the error in the horizontal coordinates)

Elevation accuracy (number; an estimate in metres of the standard deviation of the error in the vertical coordinate; -9999 is used for entries that are not valid)