SANBI Metadata
Albers Equal Area (AEA) Dam wall heights
The most recent dams register of DWS, dated to 2016
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-11-04
- Purpose
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Improving the national wetland inventory.
- Credit
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Department of Water & Sanitation (DWS). 2016. Dam register of 2016, viewed 5 December 2018, from www.dwa.gov.za/DSO/.../List%20of%20Registered%20Dams%20Feb%202016.xls.
Van Deventer, H., Smith-Adao, L., Collins, N.B., Grenfell, M., Grundling, A., Grundling, P-L., Impson, D., Job, N., Lötter, M., Ollis, D., Petersen, C., Scherman, P., Sieben, E., Snaddon, K., Tererai, F. & Van der Colff, D. 2019. South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: Technical Report. Volume 2b: Inland Aquatic (Freshwater) Realm. CSIR report number CSIR/NRE/ECOS/IR/2019/0004/A. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12143/6230.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords
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Wetland inventory
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National Wetland Map
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Inland aquatic ecosystems
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- Use limitation
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There are no access limitations for this item.
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Other constraints
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There are no access limitations for this item.
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- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 5000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Inland waters
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- Supplemental Information
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WGS 1984
Projection: Albers
False_Easting: 0.0
False_Northing: 0.0
Central_Meridian: 25.0
Standard_Parallel_1: -24.0
Standard_Parallel_2: -33.0
Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.0
Linear Unit: Meter (1.0)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12143/6230 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
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South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: Technical Report. Volume 2: Inland Aquatic (Freshwater) Realm.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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The most recent dams register of DWS, dated to 2016
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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The most recent dams register of DWS, dated to 2016 (DWS 2016), lists 5 169 dams. In contrast, the spatial data layer of artificial dams associated with the South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE) mapped 204 893 dams (Van Deventer et al. 2018). The majority of the dam register’s records (83%) have size categories and dates assigned, distinguishing between large (3%), medium (20%) and small (76%) dams.
- File identifier
- 5e4de782-9f67-4113-9aa3-fdd2e9c50d2c XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-11-05T11:39:50
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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