Darwin Harbour Seabed Bathymetry Flythrough Videos

December 2010 funding initiated the Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program, managed by the Department of Land Resource Management. The program involved collaboration with Geoscience Australia, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and the Darwin Port Corporation to acquire multibeam data. The output includes video flythroughs presenting seabed bathymetry compilations for Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory.

Use Cases

• Visualizing seabed topography for habitat mapping based on multibeam bathymetry data.
• Supporting marine resource management decisions based on thematic habitat maps.
• Public education and outreach using video compilations of the harbor's seafloor.

Strengths

• Data acquisition involved collaboration between government and scientific institutions, including Geoscience Australia and AIMS.
• The program's objective is explicitly stated to produce thematic habitat maps for management decisions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Multibeam and backscatter data acquisition conducted under the Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 09:46:48.825445; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Darwin Harbour and Bynoe harbours region, Northern Territory, Australia.