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natural resource management

example 1: Australian Natural Resources Atlas


Where?	Australia

Description	Provides a broad scale view of the location and status of national land, water and biodiversity resources

Spatial outputs	The application uses maps and “story boards” to get its message across

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example 2: Community Access to Natural Resources Information (CANRI)


Where?	New South Wales

Description	Technology involving over a dozen agencies serving their own data utilising web mapping technologies

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example 3: Western Australian Atlas


Where?	Australia

Description	Contains a number of themes shown as maps covering around one third of Australia

Spatial outputs	Provide metadata records compliant with the ANZLIC metadata standard and utilise Web Map Server (WMS) specifications developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

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example 4: Natural Resources Information Management Toolkit


Where?	Australia

Description	ANZLIC and the Audit have produced the Toolkit to promote an integrated information management solution to assist natural resource managers at national, State/Territory and regional levels to obtain full value from the investment in the collection, management and use of data to fulfil project requirements.

Spatial outputs	Procedures and proformas to deliver spatial outputs which conform with national best practice

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example 5: Research Data and Information Management Manual


Where?	Australia

Description	Land & Water Australia and ANZLIC have produced an on-line manual for staff and research partners, which documents procedures to better manage data and information from research projects

Spatial outputs	Land & Water Australia now have the ability to map project information because all projects are geolocated

Benefits	An enhanced capacity to report on projects and their findings, which benefits future researchers and the public