Land Access and Indigenous Engagement Case Studies for Australian Geoscience

Geoscience Australia's Exploring for the Future program covers 2.9 million km2 and 37,648 land parcels in northern Australia. The dataset presents two case studies on stakeholder engagement for data collection, focusing on the AusAEM and Barkly Seismic surveys. The work was published in 2020 as part of the program's extended abstracts.

Use Cases

• Analyze stakeholder engagement frameworks based on the described practices of free, prior, and informed consent.
• Study governance models for large-scale projects based on the expansion of Geoscience Australia's Land and Marine Access team.
• Compare community benefit-sharing plans based on the described methods for delivering data back to stakeholders.
• Evaluate Indigenous-focused engagement strategies based on the case study of the Barkly Seismic Survey.

Strengths

• Covers a massive geographic scale of 2.9 million square kilometers in northern Australia.
• Documents engagement across 37,648 individual land parcels, indicating detailed land access considerations.
• Based on a formal publication from Geoscience Australia, providing institutional authority.

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.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia

Collection Method

Case studies from the Exploring for the Future program, published in extended abstracts.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 09:34:43.322016; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Australia