Product catalogue
Predicted seabed gravel, mud and sand content in the Timor Sea region in the Australian continental EEZ 2018
<p>This dataset provides the spatially continuous data of seabed gravel (sediment fraction >2000 µm), mud (sediment fraction < 63 µm) and sand content (sediment fraction 63-2000 µm) expressed as a weight percentage ranging from 0 to 100%, presented in 10 m resolution raster grids format and ascii text file.</p>
<p>The dataset covers the eight areas in the Timor Sea region in the Australian continental EEZ.</p>
<p>This dataset supersedes previous predictions of sediment gravel, mud and sand content for the basin with demonstrated improvements in accuracy. Accuracy of predictions varies with sediment types, with a VEcv = 71% for mud, VEcv = 72% sand and VEcv = 42% for gravel. Artefacts occur in this dataset as a result of noises associated predictive variables (e.g., horizontal and vertical lines resulted from predictive variables derived from backscatter data are the most apparent ones). To obtain the most accurate interpretation of sediment distribution in these areas, it is recommended that noises with backscatter data should be reduced and predictions updated.</p>
<p>This research is supported by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub through Project D1.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-03-16T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-03-16T04:32:32
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-04-09T01:08:51
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-05-20T05:09:04
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/123300
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Li, J.
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- Completed
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Li, J.
Resource provider Environmental Geoscience Division
Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Geoscientific information
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-09-14
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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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
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Seabed sediments
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Marine Geoscience
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National Environmental Science Program
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Marine Biodiversity Hub
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Resource constraints
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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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- License
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- License
Resource constraints
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- OnLine resource
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Download the data package
Download the data package
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Download the Metadata
Download the Metadata
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docx
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Sediment samples were exported from Geoscience Australia’s Marine Sediments database (MARS), an Oracle database developed by Geoscience Australia in line with ANZLIC data standards. These samples were collected during surveys SOL4934, SOL5117 and SOL5650. Predicting the spatial distribution of gravel, mud and sand content at a 10 m resolution was undertaken using a combined method of random forest and ordinary kriging (rfok) for mud and gravel, and using the average of rfok and the hybrid method of random forest and inverse distance weighting (RFOKRFIDW) in an R package, spm (see Li 2018). The spatial predictive models used were selected from all methods in spm based on their predictive accuracy for each sediment type (i.e., gravel, mud and sand) (Li 2016 and 2017, Li et al. 2016 and 2017). The predictions in raster grids and ascii text file were generated using spm in R. Final file is in utm 52s with a 10 m spatial resolution. File sizes are approximately 2.6 GB (raster grids) and 2.6 GB (ascii text) for the seabed sediments (i.e., gravel, mud and sand).
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- Dataset
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/15e4afbb-5f76-4053-a0d6-a7cf60059f5a
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Li, J.
Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Dataset
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Predicted seabed gravel, mud and sand content in the Timor Sea region in the Australian continental EEZ 2018
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Citation identifier
- eCatId/123300
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-09-28T01:24:46
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-09-28T01:24:46
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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- 2015-07-01T00:00:00
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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
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551