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National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid)
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 National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid) is a free air anomaly grid for the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids B series. This gravity survey was acquired under the project No. 202008. This gravity anomaly grid is derived from ground observations stored in the Australian National Gravity Database (ANGD) as at September 2019, supplemented with offshore data sourced from v28.1 of the Global Gravity grid developed using data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. Airborne gravity and gravity gradiometry data were also included to provide better resolution to areas where ground gravity data was not of a suitable quality. Out of the approximately 1.8 million gravity observations, nearly 1.4 million gravity stations in the ANGD together with Airborne Gravity surveys totaling 345,000 line km and 106,000 line km of Airborne Gravity Gradiometry were used to generate this grid. The grid shows free air gravity anomalies over Australia and its continental margins. The ground and airborne gravity data used in this grid has been acquired by the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments, the mining and exploration industry, universities and research organisations from the 1940's to the present day. Station spacing varies from approximately 11 km down to less than 1 km, with major parts of the continent having station spacing between 2.5 and 7 km. Airborne surveys have a line spacing ranging from 0.5 km to 2.5 km. The grid has a cell size of 0.00417 degrees (approximately 435m). The data are given in units of um/s^2, also known as 'gravity units', or gu.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2020-10-31T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-10-31T00:00:00
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- 2021-01-21T22:31:31
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Geophysical Acquisition & Processing Section
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- 2019-06-19T00:00:00 1947-10-01T00:00:00
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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grid
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Australia
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gravity
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free air
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ground digital data
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geophysical survey
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4.0
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2020
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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File available for download in various formats from the GADDS2 portal
The Geophysical Archive Data Delivery System (GADDS2) portal provides HTTP download of geophysics datasets in a number of formats. Point and line datasets are available in NetCDF and ASEG-GDF2. Grid datasets are available in NetCDF, GeoTIFF and ERS.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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/g/data/iv65/Geoscience_Australia_Geophysics_Reference_Data_Collection/national_geophysical_compilations/Gravmap2019/Gravmap2019-grid-grv_fa-IncludesAirborne.nc file at NCI
Fully qualified pathname of NetCDF file on NCI filesystem for National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid). Users must be logged onto the NCI network to access this file system.
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/g/data/iv65/Geoscience_Australia_Geophysics_Reference_Data_Collection/national_geophysical_compilations/Gravmap2019/Gravmap2019-grid-grv_fa-IncludesAirborne.nc file download
File download for National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid)
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This National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid) is a free air gravity anomaly grid for the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids B series. This gravity survey was acquired under the project No. 202008. This gravity anomaly grid is derived from ground observations stored in the Australian National Gravity Database (ANGD) as at September 2019, supplemented with offshore data sourced from v28.1 of the Global Gravity grid developed using data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. Airborne gravity and gravity gradiometry data were also included to provide better resolution to areas where ground gravity data was not of a suitable quality. Out of the approximately 1.8 million gravity observations, nearly 1.4 million gravity stations in the ANGD together with Airborne Gravity surveys totaling 345,000 line km and 106,000 line km of Airborne Gravity Gradiometry were used to generate this grid. The ground and airborne gravity data used in this grid has been acquired by the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments, the mining and exploration industry, universities and research organisations from the 1940's to the present day. Station spacing varies from approximately 11 km down to less than 1 km, with major parts of the continent having station spacing between 2.5 and 7 km. Airborne surveys have a line spacing ranging from 0.5 km to 2.5 km. The free air gravity anomalies were calculated after applying a free air correction to the measured gravity anomaly, to correct for the change in gravity due to the difference in elevation of the gravity station relative to datum elevation, usually mean sea level. The data were then gridded using a gridding technique provided by the INTREPID Geophysics software package. The grid shows free air gravity anomalies over Australia and its continental margins. The grid has a cell size of 0.00417 degrees (approximately 435m). The data are given in units of um/s^2, also known as 'gravity units', or gu. The processed data are checked by GA geophysicists using standard methods for assessing quality to ensure that the final data are fit-for-purpose. Details of the specifications of individual surveys held in the Australian National Gravity Database (ANGD) can be found in the Second Edition of the Index of Gravity Surveys (Wynne and Bacchin, 2009).
References
Intrepid Geophysics. http://www.intrepid-geophysics.com. Wynne, P., and Bacchin, M., 2009. Index of Gravity Surveys (Second Edition). Geoscience Australia, Record 2009/07.
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This National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid) includes ground, satellite marine, airborne gravity and gradiometry data for the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids B series.
Reference System Information
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- EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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Geophysical Data Collection - gravity
- Citation identifier
- c6b58f54-102c-19e9-e044-00144fdd4fa6
- Citation identifier
- 74512
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National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne (free air grid)
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- eCatId/144773
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-12-23T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-12-23T00:00:00
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551