AusSeabed is a national seabed mapping coordination program facilitated by Geoscience Australia, aiming to serve the Australian community. The program addresses a situation where less than 25% of Australia's over 10 million square kilometre marine jurisdiction has been mapped at high-resolution. It was presented at the 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
Use Cases
- Planning seabed surveys based on the published Australian multibeam guideline and government priority plan.
- Discovering and accessing seabed data through the program's cloud-based data sharing infrastructure.
- Applying quality assurance software with automated workflows to assist in the survey planning process.
- Developing common geomorphic maps for seabed data interpretation using a standardised approach.
Strengths
- Program covers a marine jurisdiction of over 10 million square kilometres.
- Developed and published the Australian multibeam guideline and a government priority plan for data acquisition.
- Involves a consortium of Australian and New Zealand representatives from federal and state government, universities, and industry.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Collaborative program involving data acquisition from government agencies, universities, and industry.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-20 02:06:30.612335; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia's marine jurisdiction, including the Antarctic Territory.