Perth Canyon Marine Park Bathymetry Grid at 40m Resolution

Australia's Commonwealth marine park network covers 3.3 million square kilometres. This dataset provides a 40-meter resolution bathymetric grid for the Perth Canyon Marine Park, created by Geoscience Australia by compiling and processing their bathymetry data holdings. The data supports the development of 'eco-narrative' documents for park management.

Use Cases

• Generate seafloor hillshade visualizations based on the described panchromatic geotiff image.
• Classify seafloor morphological surfaces (Plain, Slope, Escarpment) based on the described two-part classification scheme.
• Support marine park management and ecological interpretation using bathymetry-derived products mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is derived from Geoscience Australia's authoritative bathymetry data holdings.
• Gridded at an optimum resolution based on vessel sonar systems.
• Supports a specific, semi-hierarchical seafloor classification scheme (Dove et al., 2016).

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 Data

Collection Method

Compiled and processed from Geoscience Australia's bathymetry data holdings.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:09:16.882063; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Perth Canyon Marine Park, Australia.