SANBI Metadata
Thermal springs Albers Equal Area
Thermal springs (Olivier and Jonker, 2013).
A thermal springs xlsx file was obtained for the purpose of guiding wetland mapping for the National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) 2018 project. These coordinates were converted to points.
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- Purpose
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South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
Mapping the locality and attributes of inland aquatics is essential across the country, which in turn can be used along with other data to identify key inland aquatic features for conservation National Freshwater Inventory (2016) and National Biodiversity Assessment (2018)
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Van Deventer, H., Smith-Adao, L., Mbona, N., Petersen, C., Skowno, A., Collins, N.B., Grenfell, M., Job, N., Lötter, M., Ollis, D., Scherman, P., Sieben, E. & Snaddon, K. 2018. South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: Technical Report. Volume 2a: South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE). Version 3, final released on 3 October 2019. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI): Pretoria, South Africa. Report Number: CSIR report number CSIR/NRE/ECOS/IR/2018/0001/A; SANBI report number http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12143/5847.
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- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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SAIIAE
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NBA 2018
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Inland aquatic ecosystems
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- Place
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South Africa
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There are no access limitations for this item.
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- Copyright
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- Copyright
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There are no access limitations for this item.
- 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
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South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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A South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE) was established during the National
Biodiversity Assessment of 2018 (NBA 2018). The SAIIAE offers a collection of data layers pertaining to
ecosystem types and pressures for both rivers and inland wetlands.
The SAIIAE builds on previous efforts while also introducing improvements and several new elements. An
inventory of inland aquatic ecosystems responds to a multi-stakeholder need for the planning, conservation
and management of these systems, as mandated by a number of legislative Acts, including the South
African National Water Act (NWA) and the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEMBA).
This report provides a full overview of historical efforts in the inventorying of inland aquatic ecosystems, as
well as efforts undertaken between 2015 and 2018 in the update of data layers associated with river and
inland wetland ecosystem types for the NBA 2018.
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- Dataset
- Statement
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Heidi van Deventer (CSIR) obtained the thermal springs xlsx file from Prof Jana Olivier on 5 August 2016 for the purpose of guiding wetland mapping for the National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) for 2018 project. The points were converted Heidi converted the points as converted in this xlsx to a feature class.
Some errors are noted, including the Brandvlei, Malmsbury and Warmbad Noord points as listed by Kent. These points were not corrected for the purpose of this project.
Olivier J and Jonker N. 2013. Optimal Utilisation of Thermal Springs in South Africa. WRC Report No. TT 577/13
- File identifier
- 07fdfd9f-1532-45d5-903f-5c78a61e744d XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-11-05T14:58:01
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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