Product catalogue
Australian Sub-bottom Profiling Guidelines
<div>The Australian Sub-bottom Profiling Guidelines were developed by the AusSeabed community to establish a standardised approach to the acquisition of sub-bottom profiler data in an Australian context. They complement a suite of ocean best practice guidelines developed by the AusSeabed community including the <a href=" https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/121571">Australian Multibeam Guidelines</a> (eCat Record 121571) and the Australian <a href=" https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/2080">Satellite Derived Bathymetry Guidelines</a>.</div><div>The guidelines provide recommended procedures for data acquisition, quality checking and data submission to the AusSeabed marine data portal. They were initially designed for use by the Australian Hydrographic Office Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP) to enable the acquisition of standardised, efficient and effective sub-bottom profile data for general seabed characterisation and collection of baseline data. Additionally, the guidelines may be used by any agency or party collecting seabed geophysical data in Australia’s marine jurisdiction for a range of use cases. </div><div><br></div><div>The guidelines include a broad examination of data acquisition, basic processing for quality checking, metadata description, and guidance for data submission to AusSeabed. They do not include prescriptive equipment-specific hardware and software specifications, detailed user-defined settings or instrument preparation activities such as bench/workshop tests, personnel requirements, or provide survey costing information.</div><div><br></div>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-07-29
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-10-24T05:32:22
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/148826
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/148826
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author McNeil, M.
Internal Contact Author Bergersen, D.
External Contact Author Johnstone, E.
External Contact Author Vandenbossche, P.
External Contact Author Yule, C.
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GA Record
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GA Record 2023/40
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The Australian Sub-bottom Profiling (SBP) Guidelines are intended to establish a standardised approach to the acquisition of SBP data in an Australian context. The aim is to provide data acquirers and contributors with a guide to standardise the quality and consistency in the collection and description of data, to enable rapid publication and open access use of datasets by a range of end-users. The guideline also includes specific requirements for data and metadata formats for submission of sub-bottom profiler data to the AusSeabed marine data portal.
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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.
Internal Contact
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- Geoscientific information
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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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AusSeabed
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Guidelines
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Marine
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Sub-bottom
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Earth Sciences
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Applied geophysics
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023
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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
- Larger work citation
- Title
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Australian Multibeam Guidelines
- Citation identifier
- 121571
- Citation identifier
- 854f5bbd-91fd-4f64-82ab-59662ce3aa89
- 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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Download the Record (pdf) [1.3 MB]
Download the Record (pdf) [1.3 MB]
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pdf
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<div>The Australian Sub-bottom Profiling Guidelines were developed by an AusSeabed working group to address the AusSeabed 2025 Roadmap Actions P2.4 and C2.2.</div><div>The Guidelines underwent internal and external peer review prior to publication, and were endorsed by the AusSeabed Steering Committee on 27 July 2023.</div>
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/4c1f7f58-3987-4b60-a3bb-c391dcea00bf
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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 McNeil, M.
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- Document
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GA Record
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Citation identifier
- eCatId/148826
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-09-20T02:58:39
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-09-20T02:58:39
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