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Australia's Seabed: How much is mapped? A national metadata assessment – 2024
<div>Australia has a vast marine jurisdiction and a thriving ocean economy, but our ocean faces increasingly complex pressures. Advancing our ocean knowledge is key to unlocking a sustainable ocean future. Seabed maps are an essential source of baseline information to inform the conservation, restoration, sustainable use, and management of our oceans.</div><div><br></div><div>The goal is to map the shape of Australia’s seabed in sufficient detail to inform the sustainable management and use of marine resources. But knowing how much of the seabed is “mapped” and what is “sufficient” are far from simple. Seabed (bathymetry) data is available from multiple sources, is collected using different techniques of variable quality, is stored in disparate formats and locations, and what is considered sufficient varies depending on the application. As a result, Australia’s progress in mapping its seabed cannot be determined simply from data coverage.</div><div><br></div><div>This fact sheet defines the term “mapped in sufficient detail”, provides an up-to-date assessment of the proportion of seabed mapped in Australia, and lays the foundation for reporting future progress.</div><div><br></div><div>As of August 2024, using this methodology, 35.2% of Australia’s marine jurisdiction has been mapped in sufficient detail, with more of the seabed mapped around mainland Australia and external territories than in the Australian Antarctic Territory’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).</div><div><br></div><div>Geoscience Australia will continue working with the seabed mapping community to include new and legacy data in the coverage dataset and will continue to track and report on Australia’s progress in mapping the seabed across its marine jurisdiction.</div>
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- Date (Creation)
- 2024-08-31T16:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-09-12T23:22:22
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149851
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149851
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Geoscience Australia
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Overview of the methodology for the community.
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- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Place and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Lennard, N.
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- Geoscientific information
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- As needed
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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
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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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AusSeabed National Seabed Mapping Plan
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Bathymetry
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AusSeabed
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Marine
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Geomorphology and earth surface processes
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Was informed by
- Title
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AusSeabed Bathymetry Survey Acquisitions Coverage Database
- Citation identifier
- 148613
- Citation identifier
- 60562de0-bdea-46d4-982e-1426fe23463a
Associated resource
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
Distribution Information
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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Download the fact sheet (pdf) [364 KB]
Download the fact sheet (pdf) [364 KB
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pdf
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Supersedes eCat 148795
Supersedes eCat 148795
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<div>This product was developed as part of the AusSeabed National Seabed Mapping Plan project</div>
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Australian Government Security Classification System
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/12dd3c6c-16a3-487c-bc8f-d9114e707e25
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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 Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Lennard, N.
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GA Abstract / Fact Sheet
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
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- eCatId/149851
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-05-15T01:57:20.074Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-09-01T23:52:22
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-05-15T02:00:52.682Z
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551