BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) - temporary

Node type

Commonwealth government

Node description

This collection holds descriptions of natural resource data that are available for download from the Australian Natural Resources Data Library. This library was established in September 2001 by the National Land and Water Resources Audit, a program of the National Heritage Trust. The node is hosted by the Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS), a division of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia (AFFA).

Z39.50 connection details

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• Server hostname: www.brs.gov.au
• Server port: 210
• Repository name: anrdl

Bounding coordinates

The outer geographic extent of the whole document collection ...

• North bounding coordinate: -9
• South bounding coordinate: -44
• East bounding coordinate: 154
• West bounding coordinate: 112

Top search terms

These terms occur frequently in the metadata collection. They will give you a starting point for conducting searches.

agriculture, soils, salinity, water, climate, demography, geosciences, land use, vegetation

References

• Home: Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS)
• Local metadata search: Australian Natural Resources Data Library
• Other: National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA)

Description of the organisation/jurisdiction

The National Land and Water Resources Audit (the Audit) is a program of the Natural Heritage Trust. It was set up in 1997 to improve land, water and vegetation management by providing better information to resource managers.

Contact details

• Contact organisation: Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS)
• Postal address: PO Box E11
• City: Kingston
• State: ACT
• Postal code: 2604
• Electronic mail: dataman@brs.gov.au
• Telephone: +61 2 6272 4000
• Facsimile: +61 2 6272 4687

Metadata date

2004-01-30