Geoscience Australia's Integrated Geospatial Catalogues and Collections

Geoscience Australia provides metadata from two internal catalogues containing national satellite image collections, geological and topographical maps, and boundary datasets. The metadata was mapped to the ISO19115 standard and exposed via a GeoNetwork instance. This work enables external access to geoscientific information for decision-making.

Use Cases

• Resource exploitation analysis based on geological map collections
• Environmental management planning based on thematic geoscientific maps and satellite imagery
• Critical infrastructure safety assessment based on topographical and boundary datasets
• Marine research based on identified relevant data feeds

Strengths

• Metadata is mapped to the ISO19115 international standard schema
• Integrates data from two independent internal catalogues into a single standards-compliant instance

Limitations

• 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

Collection Method

Metadata from two internal catalogues was analyzed, mapped to ISO19115, and exposed via a GeoNetwork instance deployed in collaboration with ANDS and AuScope.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:29:36.068290; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia