Lord Howe Island Shelf Bathymetry and Habitat Flythrough Video

A flythrough movie visualizes the seabed bathymetry and habitats of the Lord Howe Island shelf. The underlying bathymetric grid merges multibeam sonar from 2008, legacy sonar, and satellite-derived data at 8 m and 40 m resolution. This work was conducted as part of the Marine Biodiversity Research Hub, funded by the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities programme.

Use Cases

• Visualizing seabed topography based on the described bathymetric flythrough movie
• Studying drowned reef structures based on the key geomorphological features mentioned
• Analyzing sediment-covered basins based on the shelf habitat descriptions

Strengths

• Bathymetric grid incorporates multibeam sonar data collected in 2008 using a 30 kHz Simrad EM300 system
• Grid development is detailed in a referenced Geoscience Australia Record (2010/36)

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 data_gov_au

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Merged grids derived from multibeam sonar, legacy sonar, and satellite-derived bathymetry

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 10:18:37.970075; freshness should be verified

Geography

Shelf surrounding Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia