Beagle Marine Park Bathymetry Grids at 1-Meter Resolution

June 2018 bathymetry data for Beagle Marine Park in Bass Strait, collected by Geoscience Australia and the University of Tasmania. The dataset comprises 11 grids derived from multibeam sonar, covering a combined area of 366 square kilometers at 1-meter spatial resolution. It was created to build baseline information for benthic habitats as part of a 10-year marine park management plan.

Use Cases

• Modeling benthic habitat distribution based on high-resolution bathymetry.
• Planning environmental monitoring programs based on baseline seafloor data.
• Analyzing seafloor geomorphology based on 1-meter resolution grids.

Strengths

• High-resolution 1-meter gridded data.
• Covers a specific area of 366 square kilometers.
• Data collection is documented in a detailed 2019 post-survey report.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia and the Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania).

Collection Method

Multibeam sonar survey conducted from the vessel TV Bluefin.

Time Range

Data collected 17-26 June 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 19:24:48.030864; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Beagle Marine Park, Bass Strait, Australia.