New Zealand Fur Seal Distribution Database - CAMRIS

This database contains information about the distribution and abundance of New Zealand fur seals around the Australian coastline. It is derived from information held at the former CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, and provided by Dr. P. Shaughnessy.\n\nFormat: shapefile.\n\nQuality - \nScope: Dataset. \nExternal accuracy: +/- one degree. \nNon Quantitative accuracy: Variable. \n\nData in the Fur Seal coverage contains: \n---------------------------------- \nLOCATION = The physical location of Fur Seal. \nDATE = Date and month when species recorded. Does not state the year. \nSEAL_NUMBER = Fur Seal unique identification number. \n\nData in the Sea Lion coverage contains: \n---------------------------------- \nLOCATION = The physical location of a Sea Lion. \nDATE = Date, month and year when species has been recorded. \nSEALION_NUMBER = Seal Lion unique identification number. \n\nConceptual consistency: Coverages are topologically consistent. No particular tests conducted by ERIN. \nCompleteness omission: Complete for the Australian continent.\nLineage: 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).