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Description
A 2019-2022 survey acquired by the NSW government's Department of Planning and Environment onboard the Research Vessel Bombora. It provides 5-meter resolution 32-bit floating point geotiff files of bathymetry and backscatter for the Forster Pacific Palms Cape Hawke, NSW area, processed using Hypack, R2Sonic GUI, and Qimera software. The dataset was created to establish a baseline and map the spatial distribution of seabed types.
Use Cases
Map seabed type distribution based on the described purpose of the survey.
Establish baseline seafloor conditions for environmental monitoring based on the dataset's stated objective.
Analyze underwater terrain using the 5-meter resolution bathymetry data.
Study seabed acoustic properties using the provided backscatter data.
Strengths
Data collection spanned over three years from March 2019 to August 2022.
Provides high-resolution (5m) bathymetry and backscatter data as 32-bit floating point geotiffs.
Processing followed documented standard operating procedures referenced in the description.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific NSW coastal study area.
Provenance
Source
NSW government (Department of Planning and Environment – DPE)
Collection Method
Acquired using DPE’s R2Sonic 2022 multibeam sonar onboard the Research Vessel Bombora.
Time Range
01/MAR/2019 – 12/AUG/2022
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-19 22:34:32.585946; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Forster Pacific Palms Cape Hawke, New South Wales, Australia