Perth Canyon Marine Park Bathymetry Flythrough

Bathymetry flythrough of Perth Canyon uses data acquired by Schmidt Ocean Institute in 2015 on RV Falkor. The product highlights geomorphic features like landslides, escarpments, and bedform fields, and associated biodiversity, produced for the Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Use Cases

• Visualize geomorphic features like landslides and escarpments from the bathymetry flythrough for marine park management.
• Analyze the spatial relationship between bedform fields and benthic biodiversity highlighted in the product.
• Use the 2015-acquired data as a baseline for studying changes in canyon geomorphology over time.

Strengths

• Data acquired by the authoritative Schmidt Ocean Institute on a dedicated research vessel.
• Flythrough highlights multiple specific geomorphic features: landslides, escarpments, and bedform fields.
• Produced as a science communication product for the National Environmental Science Program's Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Limitations

• Dataset is a single HTML flythrough product, not raw tabular or gridded bathymetry data for quantitative analysis.
• Data is from a single acquisition year (2015), limiting temporal analysis.
• Sample data and specific columnar structure are unavailable.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data, supported by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Collection Method

Data acquired by Schmidt Ocean Institute in 2015 on RV Falkor (University of Western Australia et al.), processed into a flythrough.

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Last metadata update was 2026-03-07, though the underlying data is from 2015.

Geography

Perth Canyon Marine Park