Popes Eye Bathymetry Survey of Victorian Marine Parks, 2018

Bathymetry data for the Popes Eye area was collected over two days in January 2018 by Deakin University Marine Mapping lab. The survey was conducted from the Motor Vessel Yolla using a Kongsberg EM2040c multibeam echosounder. This data was acquired as part of a Parks Victoria project to map marine parks within Victorian state waters.

Use Cases

• Model seabed terrain and habitat based on bathymetric survey data.
• Analyze changes in marine park topography based on the 2018 survey.
• Support marine spatial planning and conservation efforts based on detailed seafloor mapping.
• Calibrate or validate other remote sensing data based on high-resolution bathymetry.

Strengths

• Data was collected using a Kongsberg EM2040c multibeam echosounder, a high-precision instrument.
• Survey was conducted over two consecutive days (20/01/2018-21/01/2018), suggesting a focused data collection effort.
• Data is part of a systematic project by Parks Victoria to map all marine parks in Victorian waters.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing on a single Australian location.

Provenance

Source

Deakin University Marine Mapping lab, Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Acquired onboard the Motor Vessel Yolla using a Kongsberg EM2040c multibeam echosounder.

Time Range

20/01/2018-21/01/2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:41:26.716917; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Popes Eye, Victorian state waters, Australia