AusSeabed: Coordinated National Seabed Mapping

AusSeabed is a cross-sector collaborative national program coordinating seabed mapping efforts across Australia's marine jurisdiction of over 10 million square kilometres. The program aims to address a fundamental knowledge gap, as only an estimated 25% of the seafloor is mapped to adequate resolution. Its work involves developing a federated, cloud-based platform to integrate seabed mapping data with other marine data types from previously isolated holdings.

Use Cases

• Planning sustainable marine development based on high-resolution seabed maps.
• Integrating seabed data with other marine datasets for holistic ocean science.
• Supporting marine engineering projects with detailed seafloor topography.
• Informing national marine estate management policies with coordinated mapping data.

Strengths

• Covers a vast spatial area of over 10 million square kilometres of Australian marine jurisdiction.
• Represents a coordinated national program aimed at eliminating duplication and improving data consistency.

Limitations

• The dataset record has been superseded, indicating it is not the current version.
• Key metadata such as row count, specific columns, and license are unknown.
• The description is generic, focusing on the program rather than the specific data structure or attributes.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data, via the AusSeabed national program.

Collection Method

Likely collected through coordinated seabed mapping efforts involving various sectors.

Freshness

Last updated dates are inconsistent (2026-04-30 and 2026-04-20), but the record was superseded on 2024-09-13.

Geography

Australia's marine jurisdiction.