Darwin Harbour Seabed Bathymetry Flythrough Videos from 2010 Habitat Mapping Program

December 2010 funding from the Northern Territory Government initiated the Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program. The program, managed by the Department of Land Resource Management, collaborated with Geoscience Australia, AIMS, and Darwin Port Corporation to acquire multibeam and backscatter data. This collection presents seabed bathymetry compilations as video flythroughs intended for public release to support marine resource management.

Use Cases

• Visualizing seabed topography for habitat mapping based on multibeam bathymetry data.
• Supporting marine resource management decisions based on thematic habitat maps mentioned in the description.
• Public education and outreach using video flythroughs intended for release.

Strengths

• Data acquisition involved collaboration between government agencies (DLRM, GA, AIMS, Darwin Port Corporation).
• The program's objective is clearly stated to produce thematic habitat maps for management decisions.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data, via the Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program.

Collection Method

Multibeam and backscatter data acquisition.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 13:46:47.664884; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Darwin Harbour and Bynoe harbours, Northern Territory, Australia.