The Vlaming Sub-Basin CO2 Storage Potential Study web service includes the datasets associated with the study in the Vlaming Sub-basin, located within the southern Perth Basin about 30 km west of Perth. The data in this web service supports the results of the Geoscience Australia Record 2015/009 and appendices. The study provides an evaluation of the CO2 geological storage potential of the Vlaming Sub-basin and was part of the Australian Government's National Low Emission Coal Initiative.

The Layered Geology of Australia web map service is a seamless national coverage of Australia’s surface and subsurface geology. Geology concealed under younger cover units are mapped by effectively removing the overlying stratigraphy (Liu et al., 2015). This dataset is a layered product and comprises five chronostratigraphic time slices: Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Pre-Neoproterozoic. As an example, the Mesozoic time slice (or layer) shows Mesozoic age geology that would be present if all Cenozoic units were removed. The Pre-Neoproterozoic time slice shows what would be visible if all Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic units were removed. The Cenozoic time slice layer for the national dataset was extracted from Raymond et al., 2012. Surface Geology of Australia, 1:1 000 000 scale, 2012 edition. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

This web service delivers metadata for onshore active and passive seismic surveys conducted across the Australian continent by Geoscience Australia and its collaborative partners. For active seismic this metadata includes survey header data, line location and positional information, and the energy source type and parameters used to acquire the seismic line data. For passive seismic this metadata includes information about station name and location, start and end dates, operators and instruments. The metadata are maintained in Geoscience Australia's onshore active seismic and passive seismic database, which is being added to as new surveys are undertaken. Links to datasets, reports and other publications for the seismic surveys are provided in the metadata.

Here we present 3D resistivity models of the lithosphere beneath an area of southeast Australia, derived from the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP). AusLAMP aims to collect long period magnetotelluric (MT) sites in a 55 km spaced array across Australia. With most of southeast Australia complete, we are now armed with a tool to understand the architecture of the entire lithosphere across large areas. The AusLAMP data presented here were collected by several organisations. Geoscience Australia (GA), the Geological Survey of South Australia, the Geological Survey of New South Wales, the Geological Survey of Victoria, and the University of Adelaide all contributed staff and/or funding for collection of the data; AuScope and GA contributed instrumentation. Our resistivity models from these data encompass the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Curnamona Province, the Neoproterozoic Flinders Ranges, and the Cambrian Delamerian Orogen, encompassing eastern South Australia and western New South Wales and western Victoria. The Delamerian Orogen marks the transition along the eastern margin of Proterozoic Australia from a passive to an active continental margin, and has potential for a range of mineral systems. The Curnamona Province is also prospective, with strong similarities and a large mantle conductivity anomaly joining it to the Gawler Craton, which hosts a world-class IOCG belt. Preliminary resistivity models indicate a highly conductive crust in the Curnamona Province. Within the Delamerian Orogen, the lithosphere is mostly resistive, with isolated conductive anomalies from around 10 km down to the lower lithosphere. The Murray Basin that hinders mineral exploration over the southern parts of the Delamerian Orogen is imaged as a widespread shallow conductor. Subduction-related crustal enrichment during the Delamerian Orogeny, identified by xenolith and seismic studies of eastern South Australia has, in part, been overprinted by the signature of recent volcanism in the form of the Newer Volcanic Province (NVP). The NVP, previously imaged by MT in Victoria, is now imaged in its full onshore extent. The new resistivity models will enable us to identify lithospheric scale structures and test tectonic models about the evolution of southeast Australia. Presented to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference 9 – 13 December 2019, San Francisco (https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting-2019)

Geoscience Australia (GA) has had an ongoing magnetotelluric (MT) program for over a decade. The software available for processing, analysis and inversion of MT data have evolved significantly over this time, partly to make use of increased availability of high performance computing facilities. GA is a major contributor to the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Program (AusLAMP), which aims to collect long period MT data on a 0.5 degree grid across the Australian continent. Data and resistivity models from this program will image the Australian lithospheric conductivity from depths of 10 to 100 km. Given the continental scale and large number of stations being collected, inverting these data to obtain resistivity models of the Australian lithosphere relies on the use of specialised software on high performance computing facilities. GA is also working to increase accessibility and useability of raw (time series) MT data. To date, large data volumes and inconsistent formats have limited the accessibility of this data. This has meant that it has been difficult to record a transparent workflow from raw to processed data, and then from processed data to modelling and inversion products. GA is working to make use of high performance data formats to facilitate the accessibility and visualisation of this data. This presentation will detail some of the MT work being done by GA and how the availability of high performance computing facilities is helping to increase the impact and use of MT as a key dataset for understanding the Australian lithosphere. Presented at the Collabrotive Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (C3DIS) Conference, Canberra, May 6-8 2019 (https://www.plantphenomics.org.au/event/conference-on-computational-and-data-intensive-science-2019-c3dis-2019-canberra-australia/)

The year 2020 has, for many people, seemed apocalyptic: the unprecedented fires of the summer, damaging storms, locust plagues, the global pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions. The Australian resources sector offers hope for combating war, pestilence, famine and death by providing the raw materials, including critical minerals, for making modern technologies and developing new ones. We use minerals for renewable energy, defence capability, medical diagnostics and treatment, transport, communications, entertainment and agriculture. The Australian Government has assessed the nation's minerals inventory since 1975, recognising that understanding our identified resource potential is the first step to realising the responsible production of the minerals needed for longer, healthier and wealthier human life across the world. In 2020 and beyond, Australia's minerals sector has an opportunity to spearhead the Covid-19 recovery and support the technologies needed for a cleaner, environmentally robust and prosperous planet - stopping the four horsemen in their tracks.

Multi-decadal archives of satellite imagery and rapidly growing volumes of newly acquired Earth observation (EO) data provide the opportunity to monitor and assess changes to the Earth’s surface in a systematic way. However, many satellite data users need to invest substantial time and effort into data preparation that is typically done in desktop environments, which limits effective utilisation and subsequently the societal benefit that could be realised from the datasets. There is a growing trend among satellite data providers to handle more of such data preparation work and provide Analysis Ready Data (ARD) as a standard product package for EO data to make it more accessible and useful to a wider user base. ARD are satellite data that have been processed to a minimum set of requirements and organised into a form that allows immediate analysis with a minimum of additional user effort and interoperability both through time and with other datasets. Although definitive specifications for different families of ARD products are currently being developed by Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), through the CEOS Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD4L) framework, the effective utilisation and interoperability of cross-provider and cross-sensor ARD products may still pose challenges. The interoperability between ARD products will be critical for the effective user uptake of the multiple data streams. Identifying the common set of properties required for multi-sensor interoperability and assessment of the impact of parameters used in the corrections applied to derive ARD products, are important steps in achieving interoperability between ARD products. Multiple aerosol and water vapour parameters covering a range of conditions, a range of BRDF shape parameters from typical land cover types, and different solar angle normalisations covering seasonal variations have been evaluated for their impact on the derived surface reflectance, an ARD product. The results from the sensitivity analyses will be highlighted in this paper. Presented at the 2019 ESA Living Planet Symposium, 13-17 May 2019 Milan, Italy

This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries. Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.

This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries. Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.