Exploring for the Future—Bore positioning survey data release for the Nulla and McBride basalt provinces: Upper Burdekin region, North Queensland

This data release contains accurate positional data for groundwater boreholes in terms of horizontal location as well as elevation of the top of casing protectors. Twenty-four boreholes located in the Nulla and McBride basalt provinces have had DGPS survey results compiled and are presented. Using 95% confidence intervals, the horizontal uncertainties are less than 1.2m and vertical uncertainties less than 0.9m. These results are a substantial improvement, particularly on the uncertainty of elevations, and as such allow water levels need to be compared between bores on a comparable datum, to enable a regional hydrogeological understanding. Quantifying the uncertainties in elevation data adds robustness to the analysis of water levels across the region rather than detracting from it.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-07-06
Date (Publication)
2020-12-16T04:50:38
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/135417

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2020.049

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Lai, E.C.S.
Author

Carey, H.
Author

Cook, S.
Issue identification

2020/049

Purpose

To release data on surveying borehole locations including their elevations (by the tops of casing protectors), and the uncertainties of these. This accurate elevation data, including quantified uncertainties, allows water levels to be reported on a common datum, Australian Height Datum. Given water level fluctuations can be on the order of millimetres or centimetres, bore heights with an elevation uncertainty of several metres are insufficient, so more accurate bore elevations are essential for comparing water levels between monitoring bores.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Carey, H.

 MEG Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2017-11-20 2019-05-24

Extent

N
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W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

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

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • Hydrogeology

  • Surveying (incl. Hydrographic Surveying)

Theme

  • position

Theme

  • groundwater bore

Place

  • Upper Burdekin

Place

  • Nulla Basalt Province

Place

  • McBride Basalt Province

Project

  • Exploring for the Future

Project

  • EFTF

Theme

  • location

Theme

  • survey

Project

  • Upper Burdekin Groundwater Project

Theme

  • elevation

Theme

  • DGPS

Theme

  • coordinates

Place

  • North Queensland

Theme

  • RTK DGPS

Theme

  • Real-Time Kinematic Differential GPS

ANZLIC Geographic Extent Name Register

  • QUEENSLAND

  • BURDEKIN RIVER

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
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Download the Record (pdf) [1.4 MB]

Download the Record (pdf) [1.4 MB]

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download Appendix B AUSPOS GPS Processing Reports [6.4 MB]

Download Appendix B AUSPOS GPS Processing Reports [6.4 MB]

Distribution format

OnLine resource

Download Appendix C McCall Consulting Report (pdf) [2.2 MB]

Download Appendix C McCall Consulting Report (pdf) [2.2 MB]

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download Appendix D GPS and AUSPOS input files [257 MB]

Download Appendix D GPS and AUSPOS input files [257 MB]

Distribution format

  • zip

Resource lineage

Statement

Real-Time Kinematic Differential GPS surveying of boreholes has been conducted in three phases. Processing these results allows positional data to be recorded in both horizontal dimensions as well as the vertical dimension. In addition, the uncertainties of these are quantified. These results are collated and presented in this data release.

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/720ba25b-a570-4efa-b7cd-ce19d8debf33

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Carey, H.

 MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA publication: Record

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/135417

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5167d912-6784-4371-9938-3931e84ca6f1

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/720ba25b-a570-4efa-b7cd-ce19d8debf33

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:80/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/720ba25b-a570-4efa-b7cd-ce19d8debf33

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-08T01:55:29
Date info (Revision)
2019-04-08T01:55:29

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

DGPS EFTF Exploring for the Future RTK DGPS Real-Time Kinematic Differential GPS Upper Burdekin Groundwater Project coordinates elevation groundwater bore location position survey
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Hydrogeology Surveying (incl. Hydrographic Surveying)

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