AusSeabed: Federated Seabed Mapping Data for Australia's Marine Jurisdiction

Three years of coordinated seabed mapping efforts across Australia's over 10 million square kilometre marine jurisdiction, where only an estimated 25% is adequately mapped. The AusSeabed program, coordinated by the Australian Ocean Data Network, aims to address this knowledge gap through a federated, cloud-based platform. The program focuses on collating and integrating previously isolated seabed mapping datasets with other marine data types.

Use Cases

• Planning sustainable marine development based on high-resolution seabed maps.
• Conducting oceanographic research by integrating seabed data with other marine datasets.
• Improving data quality and consistency for national marine resource management.
• Eliminating duplication of mapping efforts across different sectors and stakeholders.

Strengths

• Covers a vast spatial area of over 10 million square kilometres of Australian marine jurisdiction.
• Program aims to integrate data from previously isolated and inaccessible holdings.
• Designed as a federated, cloud-based, open-source platform for the entire data supply chain.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and specific column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The record was superseded by another catalog entry (eCat 149851) as of 13/09/2024.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Cross-sector collaborative national program coordinating data acquisition, quality assurance, and processing.

Time Range

Covers at least three years of program activity up to its supersession in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-05 07:49:54.973901; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia's marine jurisdiction.