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Australian National Multiscale Topography Models

The Topographic Position Index measures the topographic slope position of landforms by comparing the mean elevation of a specific neighbourhood area with the elevation value of a central cell. This is done for every cell or pixel in the digital elevation model (DEM) to derive the relative topographic position (e.g. upper, middle and lower landscape elements). Ruggedness informs on the roughness of the surface and is calculated as the standard deviation of elevations. Both these terrain components are used to generate a multi-scale topographic index over the Australian continent using the algorithm developed by Lindsay, J, B., Cockburn, J. M. H. and Russell, H. A. J., 2015. An integral image approach to performing multi-scale topographic position analysis, Geomorphology, 245, 51-61. Topographic position is captured across three spatial scale and display as a ternary image. The ternary image reveals a rich representation of nested landform features with broad application to geomorphological and hydrological process understanding and mapping of regolith and soils.


<b>Value: </b>Broad application in understanding geomorphological and hydrological processes and in mapping regolith and soils over the Australian continent. Can be used as inputs into geospatial modelling and machine learning


<b>Scope: </b>The dataset is national. The algorithm can be run on any digital elevation gridded dataset.

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Date (Creation)
2018-09-21
Date (Publication)
2022-02-24T01:43:25
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144631

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Codespace

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Purpose

Broad application in understanding geomorphological and hydrological processes and in mapping regolith and soils over the Australian continent. Can be used as inputs into geospatial modelling and machine learning

Status
On going
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Point of contact

Schroder, I.

MEG Internal Contact
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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Temporal extent

Time period
2018-05-01
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

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Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

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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  • DC2020

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  • Landform position

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  • Landform classification

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  • Geormophology

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  • Landscape visualisation

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  • Geomorphometrics

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  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

Edition

4.0

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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License

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Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Statement

<b>Source: </b>Model based on the 3 second resolution (~90m) DEM derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and implements the algorithm by Lindsay et al. (2015) <br />

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<b>Form: </b>The dataset is displayed as a ternary image with three levels for topographic position using window sizes of 0.2–8.1 km; 8.2–65.2 km and 65.6–147.6 km. These scales are display in red , green and blue colours in the ternary image. <br />

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Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/5390cbef-38dd-445a-b6d8-ebd077f19aeb

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GeoNetwork UUID

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English
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UTF8
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Schroder, I.

MEG Internal Contact

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Collection
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Geoscience Australia (GA) High Value Collection

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/144631

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/857c5e68-6a83-4d1c-955e-5a71bd390c71

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5390cbef-38dd-445a-b6d8-ebd077f19aeb

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/accessDenied.jsp/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5390cbef-38dd-445a-b6d8-ebd077f19aeb

Date info (Creation)
2021-01-06T22:40:52
Date info (Revision)
2021-01-06T22:40:52

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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Keywords

DC2020 Geomorphometrics Geormophology HVC - High Value Collection HVC_144631 Landform classification Landform position Landscape visualisation Published_External
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EARTH SCIENCES

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