Kangaroo Island South-East Bathymetry Survey from 2022-2023

A bathymetry survey of the Kangaroo Island South-East area was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office between 1 December 2022 and 31 May 2023. The survey was conducted by Precision Hydrographic Services under the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program using Kongsberg EM2040 multibeam sonar systems. The processed data is available as a 30-meter resolution, 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF grid.

Use Cases

• Modeling seabed topography based on the 30-meter resolution bathymetry grid
• Analyzing underwater terrain features for marine research based on the sonar survey data
• Integrating bathymetric data into coastal or marine GIS projects based on the GeoTIFF format

Strengths

• Survey conducted with Kongsberg EM2040 multibeam sonar systems, which suggests high-resolution data acquisition
• Data processed and exported as a 30-meter resolution GeoTIFF grid, providing a standardized geospatial format

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

Contract survey conducted by Precision Hydrographic Services using Kongsberg EM2040 sonar systems and processed with QIMERA software.

Time Range

1 Dec 2022 – 31 May 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 01:06:13.416915; freshness should be verified

Geography

Kangaroo Island (South-East), Australia