Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: Predicted seabed mud content

This resource contains a predicted seabed mud content 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 predicted seabed mud content 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 a previous survey GA0333 collected by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR. This dataset provides spatially continuous predictions of seabed %mud (< 63 µm) content for the Darwin and Bynoe harbour region, northern Australian marine margin. Data are presented in 10 m resolution raster grids format and ascii text file. Predictions are based on 395 samples and nine environmental variables derived from high resolution multibeam sonar bathymetry and backscatter data. Accuracy of predictions is very high, with a VEcv = 62% for mud; and the predictive accuracy has been increased by 198.3% for mud in comparison with the commonly used method (i.e., IDW). Absences in predictions occur in this dataset as a result of non-availability associated with predictive variables. This dataset supersedes previous predictions of mud content for the Darwin and Bynoe harbour region with demonstrated improvements in predictive accuracy.

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Date (Creation)
2019-12-03
Date (Publication)
2020-01-15T03:04:25
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ga-dataSetURI/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/127108

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Li, J.
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Completed
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10 m

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  • Geoscientific information

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2011 2017

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Geoscience Australia

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Product data repository: Various Formats

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Data Store directory containing the digital product files

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Keywords

  • seabed

Keywords

  • mud content

Keywords

  • Darwin Harbour

Keywords

  • Habitat Mapping

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  • Published_External

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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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2018-11-01T00:00:00
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English
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Download the data (csv) [166 MB]

Download the data (csv) [166 MB]

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Download the data (esri ascii) [33.5 MB]

Download the data (esri ascii) [33.5 MB]

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Download the data (esri grid) [52.4 MB]

Download the data (esri grid) [52.4 MB]

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Sediment samples were exported from Geoscience Australia’s Marine Sediments database (MARS). These samples and relevant high resolution multibeam sonar bathymetry and backscatter data were collected during marine surveys GA0356 (Radke et al., 2017), GA0358 and GA0359 (Radke et al., 2018), GA0351/SOL6187 (Siwabessy et al., 2016) and GA4452/SOL6432 (Siwabessy et al., 2017). Predicting the spatial distribution of mud content at 10 m resolution was undertaken using the average of the hybrid method of random forest and ordinary kriging (rfok) and the hybrid method of random forest and inverse distance weighting (RFOKRFIDW). All predictions were generated using the R package, spm (Li, 2018). The spatial predictive models used were selected from the methods in spm based on their predictive accuracy for each sediment type. This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.

References:

Li, J., 2018. spm: Spatial Predictive Modelling. R package version 1.1.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spm.

Radke, L., Smit, N., Li, J., Hunt-Lew Fatt, K., Harries, S., Windsor, J., Nicholas, T., 2018. Benthic Sediment surveys of inner Darwin Harbour and shallow water areas in and around Bynoe Harbour (2018) - GA0358 and GA0359 – Post-survey report.

Radke, L., Smit, N., Li, J., Nicholas, T., Picard, K., 2017. Outer Darwin Harbour Shallow Water Sediment Survey 2016: GA0356 – Post-survey report: Record 2017/06. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2017.006.

Siwabessy, J., Smit, N., Atkinson, I., dando, N., Harries, S., Howard, F.J.F., Li, J., Nicholas, W.A., Potter, A., Radke, L., Tran, M., Williams, D., Whiteway, T., 2016. Outer Darwin Harbour Marine Survey 2015: GA0351/SOL6187 Post-survey report: Geoscience Australia Record 2018/08. Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia., p. 117.

Siwabessy, P.J.W., Smit, N., Atkinson, I., Dando, N., Harries, S., Howard, F.J.F., Li, J., Nicholas, W.A., Picard, K., Radke, L.C., Tran, M., Williams, D., Whiteway, T., 2017. Bynoe Harbour Marine Survey 2016: GA4452/SOL6432 – Post-survey report. Record 2017/04. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2017.004.

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

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Australian Government Security Classification System

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2018-11-01T00:00:00
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urn:uuid/b6a63d11-e4f3-4cb8-b29b-59ef8e98fcd4

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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eCatId/127108

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng//metadata/b6a63d11-e4f3-4cb8-b29b-59ef8e98fcd4

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/b6a63d11-e4f3-4cb8-b29b-59ef8e98fcd4

Date info (Creation)
2019-02-20T05:08:19
Date info (Revision)
2019-02-20T05:08:19

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

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Version 2.0, April 2015

 
 

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Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping mud content seabed

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