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MH370 Search Phase 1 Raw and Processed datasets
On behalf of Australia, and in support of the Malaysian accident investigation, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) was leading search operations for missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Geoscience Australia provided advice, expertise and support to the ATSB to facilitate bathymetric surveys, which were undertaken to provide a detailed map of the sea floor topography to aid navigation during the underwater search. Prior to the bathymetric survey, very little was known about the sea floor in the MH370 search area, as few marine surveys have taken place in the area. Existing maps of the sea floor were coarse, having been derived from satellites and only providing a general indication of water depth. Before the underwater search for MH370 could begin, it was necessary to accurately map the sea floor to ensure that the search is undertaken safely and effectively. Bathymetry survey vessels spent months at sea, scanning the sea floor with multibeam sonar to gather detailed, high-resolution data.
This collation of datasets contains the raw and processed data acquired during Phase 1 of the search for MH370. Bathymetric data was acquired by multibeam sonar mounted on the hull of multiple vessels (GA survey reference: GA-4421, GA-4422 & GA-4430). Bathymetric surveys were conducted from June 2014 to February 2017, collecting over 710,000 square kilometres of data in the search area and along transit lines (to and from the search area).The raw and processed datasets were acquired from Fugro Equator, Zhu Kehzen, Fugro Supporter between June 2014 and February 2017.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-04-19T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-07-14T13:00:00
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/111383
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/595d7744b71e2
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian Geoscience Australia
1 Distributor National Computing Infrastructure
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Geoscientific information
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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marine environmental baselines
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Geophysics
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backscatter
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Marine Data
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environmental sciences
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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Earth Sciences
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Published_External
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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
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- 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
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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html
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- OnLine resource
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Explore and download the data via Ausseabed Marine Data Portal
Explore and download the data via Ausseabed Marine Data Portal
Resource lineage
- Statement
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This is the initial collation of datasets contains the raw and processed data acquired during Phase 1 of the search for MH370.
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- Dataset
- Description
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Geoscience Australia
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Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/19fc382c-6317-48d6-b174-4b4664fb10cd
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Dataset
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dataset
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/111383
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-03-06T04:08:52.744Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-03-06T04:10:17.226Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-08-05T00:00:00
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
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551