Coastal Wave Rider Buoy Locations Database - CAMRIS

This database identifies the location of long term wave rider buoy locations around the Australian coast. The database is part of the Coastal and Marine Resources Information System (CAMRIS), a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program.\n\nFormat: shapefile.\n\nQuality - \nScope: Dataset. \nAbsolute External Positional Accuracy: +/- one degree. \nNon Quantitative accuracy: Each point has a unique identifier. \nConceptual consistency: Coverages are topologically consistent. No particular tests conducted by ERIN. \nCompleteness omission: Complete for the Australian continent.\nLineage: ERIN: Data were projected to geographics using the WGS84 datum and spheroid, to be compatible for the Australian Coastal Atlas. \n\nAll CAMRIS data were stored in VAX files, MS-DOS R-base files and as a microcomputer dataset accessible under the LUPIS (Land Use Planning Information System) land allocation package. CAMRIS was established using SPANS Geographic Information System (GIS) software running under a UNIX operating system on an IBM RS 6000 platform. A summary follows of processing completed by the CSIRO:\n1. r-BASE: Information imported into r-BASE from a number of different sources (ie Digitised, scanned, CD-ROM, NOAA World Ocean Atlas, Atlas of Australian Soils, NOAA GEODAS archive and Complete book of Australian Weather).\n2. From the information held in r-BASE a BASE Table was generated incorporating specific fields.\n3. SPANS environment: Works on creating a UNIVERSE with a geographic projection - Equidistant Conic (Simple Conic) and Lambert Conformal Conic, Spheroid: International Astronomical Union 1965 (Australia/Sth America); the Lower left corner and the longitude and latitude of the centre point.\n4. BASE Table imported into SPANS and a BASE Map generated.\n5. Categorise Maps - created from the BASE map and table by selecting out specified fields, a desired window size (ie continental or continent and oceans) and resolution level (ie the quad tree level).\n6. Rasterise maps specifying key parameters such as: number of bits, resolution (quad tree level 8 lowest - 16 highest) and the window size (usually 00 or cn).\n7. Gifs produced using categorised maps with a title, legend, scale and long/lat grid.\n8. Supplied to ERIN with .bil; .hdr; .gif; Arc export files .e00; and text files .asc and .txt formats.\n9. The reference coastline for CAMRIS was the mean high water mark (AUSLIG 1;100 000 topographic map series).