Cape Fourcroy West Bathymetry Survey at 30m Resolution

A bathymetry survey acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office between 18 August 2023 and 15 October 2023. The data was collected using a Kongsberg EM2040 MKII multibeam echosounder and processed with CARIS HIPS and SIPS and QIMERA software. The final product is a 30-meter resolution, 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF grid covering the survey area near Cape Fourcroy.

Use Cases

• Model seabed topography based on the 30-meter resolution bathymetric grid.
• Analyze underwater terrain features based on the processed multibeam sonar data.
• Support marine spatial planning and environmental studies based on the defined survey area.

Strengths

• Data was acquired with a Kongsberg EM2040 MKII, a high-precision multibeam echosounder.
• The final grid has a defined 30-meter spatial resolution.
• Survey period and processing software are explicitly documented.

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 Hydrographic Office via the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program.

Collection Method

Contracted survey using a Kongsberg EM2040 MKII multibeam echosounder.

Time Range

18 Aug 2023 – 15 Oct 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 01:44:47.400654; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Survey area encompasses an area in Cape Fourcroy (West).