Exploring for the Future - Passive seismic data acquisition factsheet

Exploring for the Future (EFTF) is a four-year geoscience data and information collection programme that aims to better understand on a regional scale the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources that are concealed under cover in northern Australia and parts of South Australia. This factsheet explains one of the activities being undertaken to collect this data and information.

Minerals Systems Showcase 2017—Geophysical inversion workshop to estimate cover-thickness

Following the recommendations from the UNCOVER post-summit technical workshop on cover-thickness in 2014, Geoscience Australia (GA) and its collaborative partners have carried out extensive benchmarking of various geophysical techniques and inversion methods for estimating cover-thickness over drill sites.

Digital Earth Australia

Digital Earth Australia (DEA) will build on the globally recognised innovation, the Australian Geoscience Data Cube; winner of the 2016 Content Platform of the Year at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards. DEA translates almost 30 years of Earth observation satellite imagery into information and insights about the changing Australian landscape and coastline, providing a ground-breaking approach to organising, analysing, and storing vast quantities of data. From sustainably managing the environment to developing resources and optimising our agricultural potential, Australia must overcome a number of challenges to meet the needs of its growing population in a time of increased climate variability. DEA will deliver a unique capability to process, interrogate, and present Earth observation satellite data in response to these issues. It will track changes across Australia in unprecedented detail, identifying soil and coastal erosion, crop growth, water quality, and changes to cities and regions. The following products provide examples of how, by providing easy access to free and open Earth observation data, DEA will unlock innovation and capability across government, industry, and the research community.

Minerals Systems Showcase 2017—Basin-hosted Mineral Systems Workshop

The Australian continent is well endowed with a vast array of different mineral commodities whose discovery and development are critical to the national economy. The continent is made up of a number of cratonic centres and intervening mobile belts, both of which are overlain by a series of basins many of which host world-class mineral systems. The focus of this UNCOVER workshop is to better understand the sedimentary basin-hosted Cu-Pb-Zn-U mineralisation system considered to have great potential in Australia.

DOI Mint software

In 2014, the first version of the DOI minting software was produced,allowing machine to machine minting of DOIs. Written in Java, it accessed the GeoCat database for metadata, sent that to DataCite, and reinserted the returned DOI back into the database.

2016 Australian Government Annual Preparedness Briefing

Flyers for 2016 Australian Government Annual Preparedness Briefing Includes: Sentinel Hotspots: What's new in Sentinel? Accessing satellite imagery for Emergency Management

Old Corporate Data Store ( CDS ) data

An archive of data held in the original Corporate Data Store managed by a combination of GeoCat and GeoMet. It is envisaged that the data should be examined and either properly managed and catalogued or discarded. It was archive in 2010

Lachlan Fold Belt Gravity Traverses (P198001), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose. This Lachlan Fold Belt Gravity Traverses (P198001) contains a total of 761 point data values acquired at a spacing of 500 metres. The data is located in NSW and were acquired in 1980, under project No. 198001 for Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR).

Seismic Gravity Trav SW Qld Central Eromanga Basin Trav1-9 (P198002), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose. This Seismic Gravity Trav SW Qld Central Eromanga Basin Trav1-9 (P198002) contains a total of 284 point data values acquired at a spacing of 500 metres. The data is located in QLD and were acquired in 1980, under project No. 198002 for None.

Seismic Gravity Trav SW Qld Central Eromanga Basin Trav 5 (P198004), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose. This Seismic Gravity Trav SW Qld Central Eromanga Basin Trav 5 (P198004) contains a total of 117 point data values acquired at a spacing of 700 metres. The data is located in QLD and were acquired in 1980, under project No. 198004 for None.

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