What's New on CANRI

June 2004

• The CANRI group of products are now available through the NSW Natural Resource Atlas portal, based on the Catchment Management Authority areas of operation. It represents a revolution in the way we access data on the Internet. Find out more about the Atlas.

May 2004

• The long awaited Atlas of NSW Wildlife is now released.

April 2004

• Flora Online - A comprehensive botanical treatment in an electronic format. This site presents a demonstration of one approach to an electronic Flora of New South Wales.

February 2004

• The CANRI program was realigned to meet the needs of the Catchment Management Authorities of NSW. Websites will be searchable by CMA area.

January 2004

• The State Biodviersity Strategy Biodiversity data is a range of datasets about the conservation of biodiversity at state, bioregion and ecosystem levels.

December 2003

• Share Your Story - Share your experiences as to how you are using the Canri website.  Information available at Share Your Story

November 2003

• Webmapping workshop held at Parramatta.  See the story in the CANRI News

October 2003

• CANRI 2002/03 projects Expo at Australian Technology Park, Redfern Sydney

August 2003

• CANRI 2003/04 projects kick off meeting at Mary Jane Barker Room B, YWCA Sydney

July 2003

• Green Web Sydney, goes live! This application, designed to access local biodiversity data, was launched this month.

June 2003

• ALGKEY, a project of Royal Botanic Gardens is now completed  and a sneak preview of the application is now available. The url supplied is still temporary and link from the CANRI homepage will be made once the final url is supplied.

April 2003

• Key wildlife habitat and corridor maps, with summaries of the integrated data behind them, covering from Newcastle to the Queensland border, and west to the Inverell area.

March 2003

• New NSW  Natural Resources Atlas now available - The Atlas now features easier and more flexible navigation, pop-up description of tools and a simple search option. You do not need knowledge of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to operate the Atlas.

  Currently there are approximately 160 data layers, covering a wide array of natural resources data, accessible through the Atlas.

February 2003

•  Water Quality Data Availability - Details about sites where water quality data is collected by 
  NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation. Includes site locations, how long data has 
  been collected and what tests have been conducted.

January 2003

• WISE - River and wetland reference database produced by the NSW National Parks
  and Wildlife Service (NPWS)
• CANRI Newsletter now available on the website.

December 2002

• Fishfiles - sightings of over 30,000 species were mapped
• Roger Johnson was elected as the new Chair of the Community Reference Group
• CANRI site usage statistics - requires login and password to access

November 2002

• MinView - Geological and exploration titles produced by the Department of Mineral Resources
• Spatial data download of selected spatial datasets
• Results from 2001 - 2002 projects

October 2002

• The following datasets have been added to the NSW Natural Resources Atlas:

- 1: 100 000 Natural Vegetation of Sydney - Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust
- Management Regions - NSW Fisheries
- Hardwood and Softwood Plantations - Bureau of Rural Sciences
- Digital Topographic Database (DTDB): Transport and drainage features - Land and Property Information NSW

September 2002

• CANRI's Primary Goal Statement
• CANRI Do It Yourself (DIY) Manual

August 2002

• The following datasets have been added to the NSW Natural Resources Atlas:

  - Native Vegetation Project Trial
  - Groundwater Flow Systems
  - Waterwatch Group Locations
  - State-Wide Geology

July 2002

• Authentication Project Draft Final Report  
• DRAFT Data Download pages
• CANRI 2002-2003 Project Plans now published

June 2002

• Soils Publications
• Vegetation Publications

May 2002

• 2002-2003 CANRI Project Proposals have been evaluated.
• CANRI-AURISA Workshop "New OpenGIS Technology and its use in the CANRI framework"
• CANRI Technical Workshop for Agencies - Web Map Composer and Image Web Server  - Thursday 16 May
• 2002-2003 CANRI Project Proposals now published.

April 2002

• The CANRI Program Board is now calling for Project Proposals from participating agencies in relation to CANRI funding for 2002-2003. Proposals are due Friday 10 May 2002.
• The following datasets have been added to the Natural Resources Atlas:

  - National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP boundaries) 
  - Regional Vegetation Committee boundaries 
  - Agricultural Land Classification
  - Land Capability

February 2002

• More detailed soil reports in SPADE - see CANRI home page
• Enhanced Search facilities
• Results of CANRI 2000/01 projects

November 2001

• CANRI commended in NSW Premier's Public Sector Awards
• CANRI joins international effort to build interoperable spatial data frameworks

October 2001

• Fishfiles pilot database released - see CANRI home page
• Flora websites: type specimens & wattle identification keys released - see CANRI home page

September 2001

• CANRI 2001/02 Projects approved

June 2001

• CANRI/AURISA Digital Spatial Data workshop and feedback

March 2001

• Launch of CANRI website by NSW Deputy Premier Andrew Refshauge