SANBI Metadata
Waterfalls Albers Equal Area
Waterfalls
Waterfalls were extracted from the DRDLR:NGI point data and supplemented by Heidi van Deventer from known waterfalls and those indicated by experts across the country.
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- Date (Publication)
- 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
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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.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Theme
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SAIIAE
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Inland aquatic ecosystems
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- Place
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South Africa
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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
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South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
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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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Waterfalls were extracted from the DRDLR:NGI point data and supplemented by Heidi van Deventer from known waterfalls and those indicated by experts across the country. The purpose was to indicate areas where these features would attract tourists and serve as ecological infrastructure in such a way. It can also be used for to indicate severe change in elevation of river ecosystem types. Please see Van Deventer et al. (2018) for more information.
- File identifier
- 2be869b4-4477-42ac-9ea8-c1b61ad7c2bd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-11-05T14:44:43
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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