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Drainage basins – spatial metadata

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Data structure

basin

Field name Type Bytes Label Description
AreaID Text (UTF-8 encoded) 27 AreaID The unique identifier used in WetlandSummary
Name Text (UTF-8 encoded) 21 Name The name of the area used in WetlandSummary, excluding the area type
FullName Text (UTF-8 encoded) 36 Full name The name of the area used in WetlandSummary, including the area type
Wetlands Text (UTF-8 encoded) 83 Wetland summary information The URL of the WetlandSummary page of this area
KML Text (UTF-8 encoded) 107 KML The URL of a simplified KML file depicting this area
TotalArea Double (8 byte floating point) 8 Area (km²) The total area in km²
BASIN_NAME Text (UTF-8 encoded) 21 BASIN_NAME
BASIN_NUMB Text (UTF-8 encoded) 3 BASIN_NUMB

Modifications

The drainage basins layer used by WetlandSummary is based on the source layers below, with the following modifications:

  • Name is the value of the BASIN_NAME field
  • Excluded feature with BASIN_NUMB="416 QLDNSW" as it is a duplicate of the already clipped Border Rivers basin with BASIN_NUMB="416"
  • Excluded a total of 1 feature by filtering
  • Clipped 17 features extending partially beyond the Queensland border (some may be due to minor misalignment at the border)

Source layer: Drainage basins - Queensland

(basin/prop-qld-drnbasin-100k.shp.xml)

Esri
Creation Date
2014-02-24
Creation Time
12:05:29
Modification Date
2022-12-07
Modification Time
22:27:20
Entity and Attribute Information
details available on request
Dist Info
Distributor
Distor Cont
Contact—individual name
Resources, Open Data
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Senior Product Officer
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
Brisbane
Country
AU
Contact email address
opendata♲resources.qld.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Data Id Info
Id Citation
Title
Drainage basins - Queensland
Alternate title
Drainage basins
Date
Publication date
2011-10-11
Revision date
2022-10-18
Cit Resp Party
Contact—individual name
Resources, LANDS, SI, ED
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Executive Director, Spatial Information
Role
details available on request
Cit Resp Party
Contact—individual name
Resources, LANDS, SI, TDIM, MAN Topographic Data Management
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Manager Topographic Data Management, Topographic Data, Imagery and Mapping, Spatial Information
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
Brisbane
Country
AU
Contact email address
SIIMTopoDataManagement♲resources.qld.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Cit Resp Party
Contact—individual name
Resources, LANDS, SI, TDIM, MAN Topographic Data Management
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Manager Topographic Data Management, Topographic Data, Imagery and Mapping, Spatial Information
Role
details available on request
Cit Resp Party
Contact—individual name
Resources, LANDS, SI, TDIM, MAN Topographic Data Management
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Manager Topographic Data Management, Topographic Data, Imagery and Mapping, Spatial Information
Role
details available on request
Cit Resp Party
Contact—individual name
Resources, LANDS, SI, TDIM, Senior Spatial Information Officer, Topographic Data Management
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Senior Spatial Information Officer, Topographic Data Management
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
Brisbane
Country
AU
Contact email address
SIIMTopoDataManagement♲resources.qld.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Additional human language abstract/description
This dataset contains the extent, name and unique ID number of the Drainage Basins in the State of Queensland, as defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC).
Resource purpose/summary
To provide an authorative single point of truth for the extent of Drainage Basins in the State Queensland. It is suitable for use in land administration, emergency and water management, monitoring of climate change, hydrological modelling, topographic and vegetation mapping and in the production of navigational and web based mapping applications.
Id Po C
Contact—individual name
Resources, LANDS, SI, TDIM, Senior Spatial Information Officer, Topographic Data Management
Contact—organization name
Department of Resources
Contact—position name
Senior Spatial Information Officer, Topographic Data Management
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
Brisbane
Country
AU
Contact email address
SIIMTopoDataManagement♲resources.qld.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Theme Keys
Keyword
BOUNDARIES Biophysical Distribution
Keyword
WATER Hydrology Monitoring
Keyword
WATER Hydrology Mapping
Keyword
Inland Waters
Keyword
Boundaries
Thesa Name
Title
ANZLIC Search Words
Date
Publication date
2007-08-01
Theme Keys
Keyword
Drainage divisions, Drainage basins, Catchments
Thesa Name
Title
Common Search Terms
Date
Publication date
2016-12-13
Search Keys
Keyword
Queensland
Keyword
BOUNDARIES Biophysical Distribution
Keyword
WATER Hydrology Monitoring
Keyword
WATER Hydrology Mapping
Keyword
Inland Waters
Keyword
Boundaries
Keyword
Drainage divisions, Drainage basins, Catchments
Res Const
Consts
Security use limitations
Dataset created and owned by Department of Resources for the State of Queensland using base information owned by Federal Government Agencies and has no use limitations.
Res Const
Leg Consts
Security use limitations
The State of Queensland (Department of Resources)
Res Const
Leg Consts
Security use limitations
This material is licensed under a
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International
licence.



The Department of Resources requests attribution in the following manner:

© State of Queensland (Department of Resources) 2021. Updated data available at http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/ .
Res Const
Sec Consts
Explanation of restrictions or prerequisites
Unrestricted to all levels of government and community. Data is available to all government agencies, community groups and individuals. Dataset is available through physical supply and may be made available via web delivery tools, for example, through DNRME's internet sites.
Supplemental information about the data
The dataset was captured at 1:100 000.

The seaward edge of this data aligns with the Coastline and State Border - Queensland dataset.

Feature Types:
DRAINAGE BASIN - A region of land where water from rain drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, dam, wetland, sea or ocean. The extent of land covered by a drainage basin was originally determined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC).

Attributes:
BASIN_NAME - The name of the Drainage Basin
BASIN_NUMBER - A unique number allocated to the Drainge Basin

Australia is divided into a number of Drainage Divisions, Queensland is covered by five Drainage Divisions -Bulloo, Gulf, Lake Eyre, Murray Darling and North East Coast and each is allocated a unique ID number
Those rivers flowing into the Coral Sea in Queensland are classified as being within the North East Coast Drainage Division which has been allocated the number one (1)
Drainage Divisions are broken into smaller Drainage Basins based on the major rivers in those divisions e.g. Burdekin Drainage Basin, Fitzroy Drainage Basin.
All Drainage Basins are allocated a unique ID number starting with the unique ID number of the Drainage Division they are within. Based on the unique number of the Drainage Basin, a user can determine which Drainage Division the basin is within. All drainage Basins within the North East Coast Drainage Division have been allocated a unique number starting with 1. e.g. The Burdekin Drainage Basin is number 12, the Fitzroy Drainage Basin is number 14 and so on.

Flow is determined using low rainfall. It areas of flat terrain, high rainfall can cause water to flow across watersheds.

This dataset is stored in an ESRI Geodatabase. Some columns names may be shortened if downloaded in the ESRI shape format.
Dq Info
Report
Data quality report, measure description
Capture is complete
Report
Data quality report, measure description
Data should be free from overshoots, undershoots, duplicate lines. Drainage lines should not cross division boundaries.
Report
Data quality report, measure description
Accuracy of the data is dependent on the accuracy of the elevation data of the associated 1:100000 topographic map.  This data is suitable for scales 1:100000 and greater.
Report
Data quality report, measure description
Attribute naming was validated against the names supplied by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC) and has an accuracy of 100%.
Data Lineage
Lineage statement, a general explanation
The location of Australia’s Drainage Basins were originally defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC).
To accurately plot the location of the boundaries, the definition of the basins were compared with 1:100000 topographic mapping (published and unpublished) and the location of the watershed based on the contours was plotted onto hard copy maps. These plotted lines were later digitised to create a spatial dataset.
With the 1:250000 drainage network as a background, checks were made to ensure that no drainage lines crossed a division boundary.

Drainage Basins are subsets of and have boundaries that are aligned to and nested with the associated Drainage Division.
Please refer to the Drainage Division - Queensland dataset.

In 2020, the seaward edge of the data was moved to align with the Coastline and State Border - Queensland dataset.

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (n.d.) Drainage basins – spatial metadata, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/get-mapping-help/metadata/basin/

Queensland Government
WetlandInfo   —   Department of Environment, Science and Innovation