Australian Bathymetry and Topography WCS

The Australian Bathymetry and Topography web service includes the topography of Australia and the bathymetry of the adjoining Australian Exclusive Economic Zone. The area selected does not include data from Australia's marine jurisdiction offshore from the Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory. The 2009 bathymetry data were compiled by Geoscience Australia from multibeam and single beam data, and along with the topography (onshore) data, was derived from multiple sources. As per the 2005 grid, the 0.0025 dd resolution is only supported where direct bathymetric observations are sufficiently dense (e.g. where swath bathymetry data or digitised chart data exist) (Webster and Petkovic, 2005). In areas where no sounding data are available (in waters off the Australian shelf), the grid is based on the 2 arc minute ETOPO (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) and 1 arc minute ETOPO (Amante and Eakins, 2008) satellite derived bathymetry. The topographic data (onshore data) is based on the revised Australian 0.0025dd topography grid (Geoscience Australia, 2008), the 0.0025dd New Zealand topography grid (Geographx, 2008) and the 90m SRTM DEM (Jarvis et al, 2008).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-05-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2017-12-07T23:52:08
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/100237

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Whiteway, T.G.

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Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Theme

  • oceans

  • bathymetry

  • topography

  • marine

  • baselines

Service

  • web service

  • WCS

Place

  • Australia

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Operates on
Title

Australian Bathymetry and Topography Grid, June 2009

Citation identifier
67703

Citation identifier
a05f7892-fae9-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/67703

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Service Version

1.0.0

Service Version

2.0.1

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

GetCapabilities

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The GetCapabilities operation is used to obtain service metadata, which is a machine-readable (and human-readable) description of the server's information content and acceptable request parameter values.

Connect Point

https://services.ga.gov.au/gis/services/Bathymetry_Topography/MapServer/WCSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WCS

Name

SERVICE

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory SERVICE parameter indicates which of the available service types at a particular server is being invoked. When invoking GetCapabilities on a WMS the value WMS shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

REQUEST

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory REQUEST parameter indicates which service operation is being invoked. To invoke the GetCapabilities operation, the value GetCapabilities shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

VERSION

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The optional VERSION parameter indicates the service type version number to use. In response to a GetCapabilities request that does not specify a version number, the server shall respond with the highest version it supports.

Optionality
true
Repeatability
false
Operates On

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

 Voice
OnLine resource

Australian Bathymetry and Topography WCS

Australian Bathymetry and Topography WCS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WCS

Resource lineage

Statement

This web service describes the bathymetry dataset of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone and beyond. Bathymetry data were compiled by Geoscience Australia from multibeam and single beam data (derived from multiple sources), Australian Hydrographic Service (AHS) Laser Airborne Depth Sounding (LADS) data, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) fairsheets, the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) bathymetric model, the 2 arc minute ETOPO (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) and 1 arc minute ETOPO satellite derived bathymetry (Amante and Eakins, 2008). Topographic data (onshore data) is based on the revised Australian 0.0025dd topography grid (Geoscience Australia, 2008), the 0.0025dd New Zealand topography grid (Geographx, 2008) and the 90m SRTM DEM (Jarvis et al, 2008). The web service was revised in 2016 as part of an infrastructure platform upgrade.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/97015339-1f91-4d74-9641-111482f9e47e

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/100237

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/97015339-1f91-4d74-9641-111482f9e47e

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/ofmj3/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/97015339-1f91-4d74-9641-111482f9e47e

Date info (Creation)
2025-03-12T00:26:27.753Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-03-11T05:45:56.328Z
Date info (Creation)
2016-02-10T09:49:39
Date info (Revision)
2025-03-12T00:27:04.8Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

WCS baselines bathymetry marine oceans topography web service
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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