SWAT uses data from a wide range of sources, including those below.
Place data
Place data is licensed for reuse under the CC BY 4.0 licence. It comes from:
- Suburb and Island data – LINZ Data Service
- Region and District data – Stats NZ Geographic Data Service
- Public conservation land and DOC operations districts – Department of Conservation (DOC) Open Spatial Data portal
- Iwi Areas of Interest – Te Puni Kōkiri ArcGIS Hub
Species data
The species data in SWAT come from GBIF.org. We add species origin, common names, synonyms, links and other data from:
- Biota of NZ – Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research (CC BY 4.0)
- NZ Organisms Register – Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ)
- NZ Plant Conservation Network
- Weedbusters
- biocontrol data – Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Weed records
Weed records are accessed regularly via GBIF.org. They are licensed according to the licence shown on each weed record page. For citation guidelines, see the GBIF citation guidelines