CoastAdapt's tool: Shoreline Explorer
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Layers

Smartline Basic

SmartLine Basic displays the Australian coast classified into just four landform categories based on very broad differences in the composition and erodibility of coastal landforms.

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Smartline Advanced

SmartLine Advanced displays separate layers showing the location and extent of more differentiated but still quite broadly-defined coastal landform types or groups, such as hard rocky shores (of several types e.g. cliffed and sloping), sandy beaches (e.g. backed by bedrock or by soft sediment terrain), soft-rock shores of several types, and others.

Further information on Smartline can be found on the OzCoasts website: http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/coastal/introduction.jsp

The complete Smartline dataset can be queried at: http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/coastal/smartline.jsp

READ: How to use Smartline in Shoreline Explorer

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LGA Boundaries

LGA boundaries shows the geographic extent of administrative boundaries of local governments in Australia.

Source link:
https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundaries/resource/15381d6f-506c-4830-a4f1-2d5e852cbe3b

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Water Observations from Space

DEA Water Observations (formerly Water Observations from Space of WOfS) displays historical surface water observations derived from imagery from Landsat 5, 7, 8 and 9 satellite imagery for all of Australia from 1987 to present.

DEA Water Observations allows better understanding of where water is usually present, where it is seldom observed and where inundation of the surface has been occasionally observed by satellite.

It is important to understand its limitations.

Source link:
https://data.gov.au/dataset/719a5433-2af0-4601-8036-a03f77199442

READ: How to use DEA Water Observations in Shoreline Explorer

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Sediment Compartments

Sediment compartment summarises the available information on physical coastal processes (i.e., ocean currents, geomorphology etc.) for each secondary coastal compartment in Australia. It also provides a high level indication of sensitivity of the compartment to long-term sea level rise and degree of confidence in that information. 

Source link:
https://nccarf.carto.com/tables/sediment_compartments_v3/public

READ: How to use a sediment compartment approach in Shoreline Explorer

Click on the 'Download' link at the bottom of the page to select the format that you would like to download.

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