National Seafloor Geomorphology Workshop Summary and Draft Scheme

Geoscience Australia is developing a national scheme to classify seabed morphology. A 2018 workshop convened marine geoscience practitioners and state agency representatives to provide feedback on the draft National Seafloor GeoMorphology (NSGM) mapping standard. The record contains a PDF summary of the workshop discussions and objectives.

Use Cases

• Reviewing a draft national standard for seafloor geomorphology mapping based on the workshop summary.
• Connecting coastal and intertidal mapping schemes to a broader seafloor classification based on the workshop's second objective.
• Understanding practitioner feedback on the structure and breadth of a proposed seafloor mapping vocabulary.

Strengths

• Led by Geoscience Australia, a national geoscience agency.
• Feedback was gathered from a workshop held on October 29, 2018, with representatives from Commonwealth and State agencies, industry, and universities.
• The draft NSGM scheme aims for a consistent vocabulary and mapping standard at multiple spatial scales.

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 Data

Collection Method

Summary document from a national workshop.

Time Range

Workshop held on 29 October 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 19:25:36.697187; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia