Cape Fourcroy West Bathymetry Survey at 30m Resolution (2023)

SI 1043 Cape Fourcroy (West) bathymetry data was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office between 18 August and 15 October 2023. The survey used a Kongsberg EM2040 MKII sonar system and data was processed with CARIS HIPS and SIPS and QIMERA software. The final product is a 30-meter resolution, 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.

Use Cases

• Modeling seafloor terrain based on the 30-meter resolution bathymetric grid.
• Analyzing underwater features for geological research based on high-resolution sonar data.
• Supporting marine spatial planning based on the defined survey area in Cape Fourcroy (West).

Strengths

• Data was acquired with a specific high-resolution multibeam sonar system (Kongsberg EM2040 MKII).
• The final grid has a defined and consistent spatial resolution of 30 meters.
• Processing was conducted using industry-standard hydrographic software (CARIS HIPS and SIPS, QIMERA).

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 sonar.

Time Range

18 August 2023 – 15 October 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 12:28:08.357627; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cape Fourcroy (West) survey area.