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Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: High resolution bathymetry grid

This resource contains a multibeam bathymetry grid for the greater Darwin Harbour region as part of a baseline seabed mapping program of Darwin Harbour and Bynoe Harbour. This project was funded through offset funds provided by an INPEX-led Ichthys LNG Project to the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NTG-DENR) with co-investment from Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The intent of this program is to improve knowledge of the marine environments in the Darwin and Bynoe Harbour regions by collating and collecting baseline data that enable the creation of thematic habitat maps and information to underpin marine resource management decisions. The bathymetry grid was derived from a compilation of multiple surveys undertaken by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR between 2011 and 2017, including GA0333 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0341 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0351/SOL6187 (Siwabessy et al., 2016), GA4452/SOL6432 (Siwabessy et al., 2017), GA0356 (Radke et al., 2017), and GA0358 and GA0359 (Radke et al., 2018), adding to those from previous surveys GA4425 and GA0333 collected by GA, AIMS, NTG-DENR and Darwin Port Authority.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-02-20
Date (Publication)
2020-01-15T02:39:45
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/127094

Identifier

Codespace

Digital Object Identifier

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Siwabessy, P.J.W.

Author

Harries, S.

Status
Completed
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

1m

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2011 2017

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Administration to complete

Date
Edition

Administration to complete

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

Voice

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

Keywords
  • Bathymetry

Keywords
  • Marine Environmental Baselines

Keywords
  • Marine Survey

Keywords
  • Exclusive Economic Zone

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 data (esri grid) [3.5 GB]

Download the data (esri grid) [3.5 GB]

OnLine resource

Download the data (jpg) [1.8 MB]

Download the data (jpg) [1.8 MB]

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Download the data (kml) [3.7 MB]

Download the data (kml) [3.7 MB]

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Download the metadata (txt) [6 KB]

Download the metadata (txt) [6 KB]

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Link to collection record

Link to collection record

Resource lineage

Statement

This bathymetry composed of multibeam sonar data from multiple surveys GA4425 in 2010, GA0333 in 2011, GA0351/SOL6187 in 2015, GA4452/SOL6432 in 2016, GA0361 in 2017 and GA0362 in 2017 and 2018. The first two surveys were acquired by Geoscience Australia (GA), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NTG-DENR) and Darwin Port Authority using GA’s Kongsberg EM3002D multibeam echosounder from aboard MV Matthew Flinders and the last four surveys by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR using GA’s Kongsberg EM2040C Dual multibeam echosounder from aboard RV Solander for the first two and using GA’s Kongsberg EM3002D from aboard MV Reelax and RV Capricornus for the last two respectively. CARIS HIPS & SIPS and QIMERA were used to process multibeam bathymetry data and to produce multibeam bathymetry grids. Multiple grids were produced by CARIS and QIMERA and were combined in ArcGIS. The processing steps included: i) the application of algorithms that corrected for tide and vessel pitch, roll and heave; ii) the use of software filters and a visual inspection of each swath line to remove any remaining artefacts and noisy data (e.g. nadir noise and data outliers). To provide more accurate motion compensated data for all surveys, including GPS tide, attitude data was acquired separately by an Applanix POS MV motion reference unit and post-processed using POSPac software. The GPS tide was used to reduce the bathymetry to the mean sea level using EGM 2008 geoid height model ( http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm2008/egm08_gis.html) with a small vertical refinement, adjusted with previously surveyed data to take into account of variation of local mean sea level (MSL).

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/WGS 84 / UTM zone 52S (EPSG:32752)

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/4b73f17b-a020-4c07-ad1b-63ad8640b114

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/127094

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng//metadata/4b73f17b-a020-4c07-ad1b-63ad8640b114

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4b73f17b-a020-4c07-ad1b-63ad8640b114

Date info (Creation)
2019-02-20T04:51:37
Date info (Revision)
2019-02-20T04:51:37

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3 (Draft Schemas 2015)

Edition date
2015-07-01T00:00:00
Title

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

Edition

Version 2.0, April 2015

 
 

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