Torres Strait Bathymetry Survey at 30m Resolution, December 2021 to January 2022

A bathymetry survey conducted from 1 December 2021 to 24 January 2022 for the Australian Hydrographic Office. Data was acquired in the Torres Strait, Queensland, using Kongsberg EM2040D and EM2040C multibeam echosounders and processed with QPS Qimera software. The final product is a 30-meter resolution, 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF grid.

Use Cases

• Modeling seafloor topography based on high-resolution bathymetric data.
• Assessing navigational safety and under-keel clearance for maritime planning.
• Conducting coastal and marine geospatial analysis based on the survey area coverage.

Strengths

• Data was acquired using industry-standard Kongsberg EM2040 series multibeam echosounders.
• The final grid has a specified 30-meter spatial resolution.
• Survey has a defined temporal coverage from 1 December 2021 to 24 January 2022.

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

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Contracted survey conducted by EGS Survey Pty. Ltd. for the Australian Hydrographic Office under the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program.

Time Range

2021-12-01 to 2022-01-24

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 23:44:08.142787; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia