Authors / CoAuthors
Geoscience australia
Abstract
The offshore seismic data consists of field, processed, and seismic navigation data. Reports of the acquisition, processing and interpretation reports plus reprocessed seismic data and reports are also held. The collection is derived from the submission of seismic data under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act and previous legislation. The Petroleum (Submerged Lands), the Offshore Petroleum, and the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGSA) requires petroleum data to be submitted to the State Designated Authority (DA). The Act(s) also require the DAs to make copies of the data available to the Commonwealth Minister through the Joint Authority.
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
74529
Contact for the resource
Resource provider
Owner
Custodian
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia
Keywords
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- offshore seismics
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- geophysics
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- marine
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Seismology and Seismic Exploration
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- Geophysical Data Collection
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- DC2020
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- Published_Internal
Publication Date
2016-06-10T11:00:00
Creation Date
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Purpose
Maintenance Information
asNeeded
Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
Series Information
Lineage
Historically, seismic data tapes were stored for the Joint Authority by National Archives at Chester Hill (ACT) because the tapes needed a temperature controlled storage facility. When Geoscience Australia moved to Symonston (ACT) the seismic tapes collection was moved to the Repository in 1998. In 2003 funding was provided to remaster the tape collection from old storage media (9 track tapes) to 3590 cartridges. This remastering program has enabled the preservation of the collection on modern archival media and allowed further migration of data onto higher capacity storage media since 2007. In 2010 all open file processed seismic data was migrated to the Repository Digital Data Store (RDDS), a near online facility. Currently there is a Surveys taskforce undertaking a data rationalisation program that will bring survey header and navigation data into one database. Almost all data is now on modern archival standard tapes. Migration to Repository Digital Data Store provides a backup for holdings and QC of data on existing tapes. The RDDS provides a near on-line copy of the open file seismic tape collection that can be used to output copies of data on tapes or hard disc drives for clients. The key clients are: Industry, Government, Internal Geoscience Australia (GA) and Academic research institutions.
Parent Information
Australian Geophysical Data Collection
UUID - 0a83ee36-d332-4669-a9fc-dfa7cec5c703,
eCat ID - 100444
Extents
[-51.98657, -8.01333, 100.01, 169.99053]
Reference System
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Service Information
Associations
Source Information
The offshore seismic data were acquired on marine airborne geophysical surveys conducted by Commonwealth, State and Northern Territory Governments and the private sector.