Abstract:
Digitising of the coastline, glacier extents, water features, wildlife, and human footprints of the Heard Island Remote Sensing Project, 2009. This GIS data has Dataset_id = 273 and is available for downloading under the heading Heard and McDonald Islands (see url below)."
Quality
Digitising of the coastline, glacier extents, water features, wildlife, and human footprints of Heard Island, from WorldView-1 image 23 March 2008 (main part of the island), Quickbird image 30 March 2006 (Laurens Peninsula) and International Space Station photography 28 Feb 2009 (West coast of main part of the island where there is cloud cover in the WorldView image). Data quality information for any feature can be accessed by searching with the Q_info number of the feature (see url below).
Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 43S, Datum WGS-84.
Access Constraints
The data are stored in the Data Centre's GIS and in ESRI shapefile format for downloading
