Kimberley Marine Park 30 m Bathymetry and Morphological Surfaces

Kimberley Marine Park in Australia's Commonwealth waters features a 30-meter resolution bathymetric grid. Geoscience Australia applied a semi-hierarchical seafloor classification scheme to derive Morphological Surface categories (Plain, Slope, Escarpment) from the slope data. This release supports the management of Australia's network of 58 marine parks covering 3.3 million square kilometres.

Use Cases

• Classifying seafloor slope into morphological categories (Plain, Slope, Escarpment) based on the described two-part mapping approach.
• Supporting the development of 'Eco-narrative' documents for marine park management based on interpreted seafloor geomorphology.
• Providing foundational bathymetric data for habitat modeling and ecological studies within the Kimberley Marine Park.
• Contributing to the collation of environmental data for the National Environmental Research Program Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Strengths

• High-resolution 30-meter bathymetric grid for precise seafloor modeling.
• Data supports the management of a 3.3 million square kilometre marine park network.
• Derived products use a published, semi-hierarchical classification scheme (Dove et al., 2016).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-04-20.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Collation and interpretation of existing environmental data, including the Beaman and Spinnocia (2018) 30 m grid.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 00:52:34.385055; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kimberley Marine Park, within Australia's Commonwealth waters.