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NESP A12: Northern Australia Pressures mapping

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Relevant spatial datasets for mapping pressures were identified and collated. Pressures were categorised as resource extraction and use, pollution, habitat modification, climate, and ‘other’. Pressures included Commonwealth trawl fisheries effort, aquaculture infrastructure, location of oil and gas infrastructure, historical shipping and pollution data, location of historical seismic operations, cyclone intensity, spoil dumping, sewage outfalls, location of ports, and tourism operations. Two main pressure maps were derived i) an additive pressure hotspots map, which gives higher weight to areas with multiple pressures of high risk; and, ii) a multiplicative hotspot pressure map, which gives lower weighting to areas with multiple low risk pressures. Areas of high risk were identified, and thus possibly high benefit for management versus low risk or low associated benefit for mitigation. The information generated needs to be considered alongside robust species distribution data and interaction matrices for effective decision-making.

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Title NESP A12: Northern Australia Pressures mapping
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/737aa274-18ed-4377-812e-3b72a959641d
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
viv.mcshane@mq.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/2018 - 01/01/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        128.957,
        -17.963
      ],
      [
        142.712,
        -17.963
      ],
      [
        142.712,
        -9.65
      ],
      [
        128.957,
        -9.65
      ],
      [
        128.957,
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      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NESP A12: Northern Australia Pressures mapping". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nesp-a12-northern-australia-pressures-mapping