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Mapping
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Australia's 15 National Biodiversity Hotspots
Click on the map to read summaries of all 15 Australian National Biodiversity Hotspots.
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Fundamentals of Mapping
ICSM has designed this site to provide a comprehensive general overview of maps, mapping, cartography and map production. It is not intended to be a definitive reference, but rather to supply a consolidated summary of mapping concepts, principles and practice.
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Maps of Australia
Include:
Topographic maps, Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction, Basic outline maps, Geophysical maps, Geological maps and Geothermal maps.
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NatureMap
Mapping Western Australia's biodiversity. Produce maps, lists and reports of WA's flora and fauna diversity.
Books
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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication (2021)
A comprehensive history of data visualization-its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems. With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit polls details election balloting down to the county level. Charts communicate stock market trends, government spending, and the dangers of epidemics. A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication tells the story of how graphics left the exclusive confines of scientific research and became ubiquitous. As data visualization spread, it changed the way we think. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer take us back to the beginnings of graphic communication in the mid-seventeenth century, when the Dutch cartographer Michael Florent van Langren created the first chart of statistical data, which showed estimates of the distance from Rome to Toledo. By 1786 William Playfair had invented the line graph and bar chart to explain trade imports and exports. In the nineteenth century, the "golden age" of data display, graphics found new uses in tracking disease outbreaks and understanding social issues. Friendly and Wainer make the case that the explosion in graphical communication both reinforced and was advanced by a cognitive revolution: visual thinking. Across disciplines, people realized that information could be conveyed more effectively by visual displays than by words or tables of numbers. Through stories and illustrations, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication details the 400-year evolution of an intellectual framework that has become essential to both science and society at large.
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Chemicals
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Australia's Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Regulator
The APVMA is the Australian Government regulator of agricultural and veterinary chemical products.
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Chemical and Biological Measurement Services
Find our range of chemical and biological reference materials, chemical and gas proficiency testing services, and advice about how to deposit biological materials for patents.
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Chemicals Management
Australian Government : Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
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Legislation: Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994
Administered by Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
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Safe Work Australia: Hazardous Chemical Information System (HCIS)
HCIS is provided for guidance only and is not a comprehensive database of all hazardous chemicals. Safe Work Australia monitors the quality of the information available on HCIS and updates the information regularly. However, Safe Work Australia does not make any representation or warranty about the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of any material contained within HCIS. The classifications in HCIS may include hazard properties which are not recognised under the model Work Health and Safety Regulations, including environmental hazard properties, and may not include hazard properties if they have not been assessed by the authoritative source.
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Safe Work Australia: Hazardous Chemicals
Enter a chemical's information to determine its hazards. Information may not be available for all chemicals.
