Marine Data Register: Metadata for Australian Seabed Mapping

Australian seabed mapping metadata stored by Geoscience Australia's National Seabed Mapping Section. The Marine Data Register is a lifecycle management system documenting data acquisition, registration, processing, publication, and decommissioning. It powers data search in the public AusSeabed Marine Data Portal and a Query Builder for discovering publicly available and non-public datasets.

Use Cases

• Discover seabed mapping datasets based on metadata fields like acquisition method and processing stage.
• Manage the lifecycle of marine data projects based on the documented registration-to-decommissioning workflow.
• Facilitate centralized data-discovery for external users submitting metadata, regardless of physical data location.

Strengths

• Serves as the central metadata repository for the National Seabed Mapping Section at Geoscience Australia.
• Documents a full data lifecycle, including acquisition, processing, publication, and decommissioning.
• Powers the public-facing AusSeabed Marine Data Portal and a dedicated Query Builder.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, managed via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Metadata submitted by external users and managed internally as a lifecycle system.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-05 07:41:47.490668; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia