Geoscience Australia has completed the first phase of an areal map of Australia's coastal geomorphological units. Utilising pre-existing GIS datasets procured from local, state and federal government agencies, this national scale map conforms to a coastal geomorphology classification scheme developed at Geoscience Australia. Phase one consists of a geodatabase containing a series of state wide feature datasets that have been reclassified into the national coastal geomorphology classification scheme.

Geoscience Australia has completed the first phase of an areal map of Australia's coastal geomorphological units. Utilising pre-existing GIS datasets procured from local, state and federal government agencies, this national scale map conforms to a coastal geomorphology classification scheme developed at Geoscience Australia. Phase one consists of a geodatabase containing a series of state wide feature datasets that have been reclassified into the national coastal geomorphology classification scheme.

Geoscience Australia has completed the first phase of an areal map of Australia's coastal geomorphological units. Utilising pre-existing GIS datasets procured from local, state and federal government agencies, this national scale map conforms to a coastal geomorphology classification scheme developed at Geoscience Australia. Phase one consists of a geodatabase containing a series of state wide feature datasets that have been reclassified into the national coastal geomorphology classification scheme.

A statistical assessment of wave, tide, and river power was carried out using a database of 721 Australian clastic coastal depositional environments to test whether their geomorphology could be predicted from numerical values. The geomorphic classification of each environment (wave- and tide-dominated deltas, wave- and tide-dominated estuaries, lagoons, strand plains, and tidal flats) was established independently from remotely sensed imagery. To our knowledge, such a systematic numerical analysis has not been previously attempted for any region on earth.

The Tasmanian Shoreline Geomorphic Types Line Map is a digital line map encoding a range of geomorphic and related attributes describing the landform types comprising the coast of Tasmania and its major islands including the Bass Strait islands and most minor islands larger than about 1 hectare. The original (version 1) of the map was compiled between July 1999 and July 2000 by Chris Sharples and Richard Mount (then of DPIWE), for the Oil Spill Response Atlas and the Australian Coastal Atlas. Subsequent ground-truthing and other data sources have been used by Chris Sharples to refine and update parts of the map during several subsequent projects funded from a range of sources, and it is now (2006) in its 4th version. A data dictionary accompanying the data set and available from the custodian gives a detailed explanation of attributes and other information about the map. The map comprises a line representing the High Water Mark, mapped at 1:25,000 scale and geo-referenced to the GDA94 datum, which has been manually split into over 12,000 segments, each representing a geomorphically distinct coastline section. Each segment is tagged with a range of attributes describing the geomorphology and geology of that coastal section. Including islands, 6472 kilometres of Tasmanian coastline has been classified in this way within version 4.0. The geomorphic data is presented in a simple (yet detailed) descriptive format which is applicable to a wide range of coastal management and research purposes.

Coastal compartments are structural features relating to geological features and landforms that can be used to provide a framework for planning and management of the coastine. The primary compartment boundaries for WA were determined by identifying major changes in rock type along the coast and changes in shoreline orientation, while incorporating complete landforms of coastal significance. The Primary compartments have been subdivided into secondary compartments based on landform associationsand then further subdivided into tertiary compartments based on individual landforms present. This dataset was commissioned by the Department of Planning and compiled by Damara Pty Ltd and the Geological Society of WA. A full report was also prepared to accompany the dataset, published August 2011. Some superficial changes have been made to the dataset since publication of the report in order to amalgamate the data into a nationwide compartment dataset developed by Geoscience Australia.Attribution for this dataset is incomplete and ongoing. Geological and geomorphological information will be added to the dataset as it acquired.

Landform delineated into ten classifications types: 1) Canyons, Deeply Incised Streams; 2) Midslope Drainages, Shallow Valleys; 3) Upland Drainages, Headwaters; 4) U-shape valleys; 5) Plains; 6) Open Slopes; 7) Upper Slopes; 8) Local Ridges/Hills in Valleys; 9) Midslope Ridges, Small Hills in Plains; 10) High Ridges, Mt Tops.

Coastal compartments are structural features relating to geological features and landforms that can be used to provide a framework for planning and management of the coastine. The primary compartment boundaries for WA were determined by identifying major changes in rock type along the coast and changes in shoreline orientation, while incorporating complete landforms of coastal significance. The Primary compartments have been subdivided into secondary compartments based on landform associations. This dataset was commissioned by the Department of Planning and compiled by Damara Pty Ltd and the Geological Society of WA. A full report was also prepared to accompany the dataset, published August 2011. Some superficial changes have been made to the dataset since publication of the report in order to amalgamate the data into a nationwide compartment dataset developed by Geoscience Australia.

An inshore regionalisation of Australian waters derived from biological and physical data, including the distribution of demersal fishes, marine plants and invertebrates, sea floor geomorphology and sediments, and oceanographic data.The meso-scale regionalisation was compiled from information supplied to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by the relevant State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth marine research and management agencies.The seaward extent for the meso-scale IMCRA coverage is defined by the 200m isobath except where this boundary extends beyond the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (AEEZ).