Spatial data services

The resources

Spatial data, including remote sensing data, is used daily by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to support its various programs and projects. This includes data on hydrology, biota, terrain, vegetation, geology, and important built and natural assets.

The spatial data exists as reports, tables, maps, imagery and geographic information system (GIS)readable data which can be used to analyse or model the characteristics of specific features, including terrain, hydrology, and ecological scenarios.

MDBA’s main available holdings of spatial data are listed below.

Themes of available data

Theme	Data
Biota	Murray riparian vegetation mapping
Boundaries	Cap regions Darling groundwater basin Icon sites (indicative) Murray–Darling Basin Murray–Darling Basin catchments Murray groundwater basin Sustainable River Audit (SRA) regions and zones
Groundwater	Groundwater management units
Hydrology	Darling Basin hydrogeology data Murray Basin hydrogeology data River Murray floodplain boundary Wetlands
Terrain	Relief of the Murray–Darling Basin
Geology	Soil landforms and relief of the Murray–Darling Basin

Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD)

The ASDD is an online directory of available spatial data from mainly state, territory and Australian Government agencies. Users can find required spatial data through searching and accessing the metadata (data about data) relating to any listed spatial data resource.

Click here to find metadata about the MDBA’s spatial data through the ASDD.

Access to the data

Most of MDBA’s spatial data is available to natural resource management agencies and to consultants undertaking project work for MDBA. MDBA’s spatial data is made available under three types of licences, each with an increasing level of restriction on use.

Licence type	Purpose
General Use Data Licence Conditions	For data or maps suitable for public release without any restrictions apart from copyright.
Data Licence Agreement (DLA)	For data generally held as-is within MDBA, and whose external release requires the standard MDBA licence conditions.
DLA with additional conditions	For data generally held as-is within MDBA, and whose external release requires additional conditions/restrictions of use over and above those specified in the standard MDBA licence conditions.

To access a particular MDBA dataset:

Download and fill in the Data Licence Agreement form.
Email, fax or post us the completed form (see contact details below).
On receipt of the form, we may contact you to discuss/clarify your specific data requirements and conditions of use.
After you have accepted all conditions, the data will be emailed/posted to you with the signed licence attached.

If you are unsure what specific MDBA spatial data you need, then email the following information to gis@mdba.gov.au : your contact details; your organisation; type of data required; and proposed use for the data.

If you have any other spatial data queries, please email or call us.

Contact details

Natural Resources Information Unit
Murray–Darling Basin Authority
GPO Box 1801
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6279 0100
Fax: +61 2 6230 7579

gis@mdba.gov.au