Metadata details
gis310
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- Citation
- Bender, A. and Smith, D. (2013) Areas of exposed rock and blue ice in the Australian Antarctic Territory digitised from satellite images, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/gis310, Accessed: 2026-06-03
- Title
- Areas of exposed rock and blue ice in the Australian Antarctic Territory digitised from satellite images
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2013-03-18
- Revision Date
- 2025-08-03
- Expected Date of Data Release
- 2013-03-19
- Data Version
- 1
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
Related links
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. Data quality information for each feature is included within the dataset.
Quality
Data quality information for each feature in the shapefile can be accessed by entering the Qinfo number for the feature, given in the attribute table, in the 'Search Datasets and Quality' tab at the 'SCAR Feature Catalogue' web page (see provided URL).
The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URLs.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1999-01-01 - Stop date: 2003-12-31
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES
- EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY
- EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND
- EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE
Additional Keywords
- blue ice
- exposed rock
Locations
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- SATELLITES
Instruments
- Computer
Researchers
- bender, angela (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
- smith, david (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=gis310 when using these data.
Project
ISO Topic
- ENVIRONMENT
Dataset Language
- English
Orignating Centre
- Australian Antarctic Division
Dataset Progress
- COMPLETE
IDN Node
- AMD
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
Metadata Revision History
2013-03-19 - record created by Angela Bender. 2014-08-12 - Title, Summary, Personnel, Spatial Coverage, Related URLs and Distribution Information edited by David Smith. 2019-09-09 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2025-08-04 - record updated by Richard Mazurek to remove QInfo details.
